Month: September 2003
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Good books
Some really good books from O’Reilly have arrived lately. The Hacks series is going to some really interesting places, taking in Google, Amazon, TiVo and now eBay (I reviewed the…
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Going to Cambridge?
I’m going to be at the RTS’s Cambridge Media Convention on Friday 19 September. The event looks fascinating. Let me know if you’re going.
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Say it loud: ‘No. I do not have a Nectar Card’
So, thanks to Robin and his idle mates, I now have a big enough Nectar logo and I’ve set up my Cafe Press shop so you can actually buy a…
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Say it loud
Last time I went to the little Sainsbury’s round the corner I told the kid on the till that I was going to make a t-shirt saying “No. I do…
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Hallmark to bid for ITV?
It says here, in a pretty good scoop for Andrew Neil’s The Business (they don’t seem to have a web site, though), that David Elstein ? top broadcasting wit, former…
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A day at the races
Drag racing is unbelievably noisy, toxic (“Remember, ladies and gentlemen, cover your children’s eyes as we spray the track…”), decidedly unsophisticated and about the least green pursuit I’ve ever witnessed…
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We went to the beach…
Dunwich, in Suffolk. Beautiful…
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Wi-fi obstacles
A bit of fairly well aimed Wi-fi cynicism from Richard Wray in The Guardian. Wray’s principle objections are: the total lack of roaming and a potential boom in laptop theft.…