Month: May 2004
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Franz Schubert vs George Formby
This is why a public service broadcaster needs a stable online archive. A year ago I blogged a really lovely Radio 4 programme about Schubert’s C major quintet and linked…
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Fantasies of control
Does anyone know how much David Blunkett’s ID cards are going to cost? No. Doesn’t look like it. There are no costs in the draft bill (PDF) and only some…
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The food industry is not the enemy
Ad people are clever – problem-solvers by nature. Stopping them from using celebrities to promote food to kids is dumb because it’s just another creative constraint and ad people eat…
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Abu Ghraib Reading
2023 UPDATE: when I read my old posts from this period I’m surprised and sometimes apalled at how apparently forgiving I was of the solecisms and straightforward lies of those…
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Ivan lives
Ivan and I were partners for years – we started a web site design firm called Webmedia together. Later he went mad and spent three or four years in a…
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Staff development
The thing about those Mirror photos, I think, is not that they always looked like fakes (which they did) but that they really looked more like pages from a training…
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Invisible content
Try this simple test. Go to the BBC Radio 4 web site and find the RealMedia streams for Misha Glenny’s excellent series of talks about European expansion, Brave New Europe.…
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But is there a redemption penalty?
I can’t tell you what a relief it is that God has finally entered the highly competitive sub-prime lending market (from today’s slightly-more-entertaining-than-usual spam).
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My Mother-in-law
I’m not saying she’s strange, but it turns out she’s been keeping a collection of battered 1970s American license plates in the loft. Nobody knows why… And while we’re on…