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HBO Max and Paramount+: What It Might Mean For Sports
Today the deal was done, and Paramount took over Warner Bros. Discovery in a massive deal that has much of Hollywood quaking. There were some last minute wrinkles with a deal being struck a couple of weeks ago with a group of US Attorneys General, with the general view being that they folded and didn’t…
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London in Colour
Some photos of London with some heavily treated colour. More on Flickr.
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Mozart in the Jungle
A mini-review of this new Amazon series, because I think it deserves it! First things first: there’s no doubt that this is a terrible title for a TV series. It’s supposed to shout something like “classical music in New York City” but I’m really not sure it does. I complain when titles are boring, but…
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Mono
With great fanfare, EMI released The Beatles in Mono on CD back in 2009, and on vinyl last year. This, we were told, was the way that The Beatles should heard. These albums had been mixed and released in mono because that was the prevailing technology of the day. In due course, stereo mixes were…
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Ghost Posts
In an age of CRM’s and programs like WordPress, it’s incredibly easy to publish something to the internet before perhaps thinking things through. And while you can just as quickly “un-publish” said pieces, it’s never quite as simple as that. Many other parts of the internet ingest whatever it is that you’ve published pretty much…
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Predictions 2015
This week’s Media Podcast is full of their contributors’ predictions for 2015. Lots of websites have lots of predictions, but for whatever reason, I’ve never bothered doing something like in the past. But why would I let that stop me? So I’ve put together a list of some things that I think might happen in…
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What I Watched, Listened To and Read Over Christmas
You may or may not have enjoyed my Radio Times suggestions. I didn’t always follow them myself. But in the spirit of honesty, this is what I did watch over Christmas: The final two episodes of Cabin Pressure were recorded back in February, but only reached the airwaves over Christmas with the story being essentially…
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Rail Priorities
Over Christmas Network Rail managed to inconvenience thousands of travellers – particularly around King’s Cross and Paddington stations in London. The reason was that the scheduled works that they’d planned for Christmas Day and Boxing Day massively overran and therefore people travelling on the 27th found that either they couldn’t, or it would be particularly…
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19,013 Songs
That is what it says on my Google Play Music account. 19,013 songs. Look, I realise that all the cool kids are renting their music on Spotify. It might not actually make any money, but it’s so much more convenient paying £10 a month and having access to all your music. Except when the album…
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The Grounds of Felbrigg Hall
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Beach Long Exposures
A few pictures from dusk today. Lots of post-processing.
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Radio Times – Boxing Day 2014
One final festive dose of what to watch, and what not to watch (IMHO). As ever, if you can’t read my scrawl, then try a bigger version.
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M42 – Orion Nebula
I’m rather pleased with this picture of the Orion Nebula. I’ve never seen it before, sitting within Orion’s belt, and being basically invisible without an optical aid. This was taken in my first session with an iOptron Star Tracker – a mount that sits on a regular photographic tripod to allow you to take photos…
Hadrian’s Wall
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