Jan

4

The Manners Manifesto

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Straight from Andrew Collins’ blog, this is The Manners Manifesto (edited here, in full on his blog).
It’s time for a return to— or a formalisation of— good manners. Here’s how we do it:

Nov

4

More of the same… and a zebra crossing

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Download dads lead the iPod generation | Money | The Observer
iTunes is an a la carte model: you see the track you like and pay your 79p. A big drawback with iTunes is that it has inbuilt digital rights management (DRM), which prevents you playing ‘your’ music on anything other than an iPod [my emphasis], […]

Oct

9

Save the World (no mention of cheerleaders)

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In the continuing quest to rebuild the compilation tape that, as I recall, was the soundtrack to our 1985 summer holiday (along with ‘Brothers In Arms’), and while looking for this week’s free single of the week, I was surprised today to see on the iTunes Music Store that George Harrison’s catalogue has just been […]

Oct

6

Further evidence emerges of Sony losing the plot

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Sony BMG’s chief anti-piracy lawyer: “Copying” music you own is “stealing”: Asked whether it is wrong for people to make copies of music which they have purchased, Jennifer Pariser, the head of litigation for Sony BMG, replied, When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole […]

Aug

21

Now I understand.

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A few months ago, Steve posted about a television series which, at the time, appeared unusually to be receiving its first airing on the Sci-Fi channel.
By that time, the series was up to something like episode 6 and it didn’t seem like a good idea to start watching at that point. I now am sure […]

May

14

Eurotrash

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BBC NEWS | ‘The worst show in living memory’
Author Tim Moore wrote a book, Nul Points, about acts which failed to score at the Eurovision Song Contest.
He told the BBC News website what he thought of this year’s competition, won by Serbian singer Marija Serifovic, and particularly the performance of UK quartet Scooch, who finished […]

May

10

’stupid northern’

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Commenting on the BBC drama The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, Andy Crick asks, why oh why did the lead character have to be Jane Horrocks putting her best stupid northern accent? Why not give her a bit of depth at least, instead of the usual **** family stuff? How patronising is that?
The show, which is currently […]

May

1

The other Douglas

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Greetings from Amazon.co.uk,
As someone who has expressed interest in books by Douglas Adams, you might like to know that Health Monitoring of Structural Materials and Components: Methods with Applications is now available. You can order your copy for just £66.50 by following the link below.
Sometimes, Amazon’s recommendations don’t really work.

Apr

11

HD

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So, we have an HD-ready telly and a Freeview DVD recorder yet Freeview is about as likely to broadcast anything in High-Definition [1] in the next few years as the England team is likely to win the next European Championship. Yesterday, however, saw the installation of Virgin Media’s cable offering: it’s really jolly good, as […]

Mar

17

Bond buffoonery

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Tomorrow is Mother’s Day.
Many women find Daniel Craig rather tasty.
Mothers tend to be female.
So, Sony Pictures are releasing Casino Royale on Monday.
Clever.

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