Month: September 2010

  • The XX on working together

    6 Music ran a lovely series of programmes about this year’s Mercury nominees. They did a simple thing and recorded the artists introducing the tracks, describing the inspiration and the…

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  • Twitter as service monitor

    How do you monitor broadcast output on FM, LW (MW in some areas), two DAB frequencies, LW and FM channels for digital TV on Virgin cable, Sky satellite, Freeview and…

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  • Autotuning Seasick Steve

    My twelve year-old remixed a Seasick Steve tune, complete with autotune. It’s awesome.

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  • Adam Savage from Mythbusters

    What I love about Adam Savage is his laugh. On Mythbusters, which I watch a lot (I have children under 12), he’s the riotous, uninhibited, self-actualiser – and he laughs…

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  • The fifth emergency service

    19 June 2017 UPDATE: I’ve just taken down the picture of my staff pass that sat at the top of this post – I’ve been advised that these days it’s…

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  • Three reasons #PromsXHQ is important

    April 2022 UPDATE: the super-high-quality PromsXHQ stream went on to replace the standard Radio 3 online stream for all output and, if you listen on BBC Sounds these days you’re…

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