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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 “No. I do not have a Nectar Card” t-shirt. So, the next time you’re asked “Do you have a Nectar Card?”, you don’t need to…
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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 not have a Nectar card.” The woman at the next till told me she’d got a card “just to shut them up” but “Here’s the…
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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 Chief Exec at Channel 5 and general scourge of wooly, public service nostalgia ? has secured the backing of the Hallmark Corporation (yes, that Hallmark)…
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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 (methanol? nitro-methane?). It’s also friendly, democratic, accessible, cheap and… unbelievably noisy (wrote a bit more about this last time we went). Last weekend was the…
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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. I’m certain that Wray is on the money as far as roaming is concerned. Without (almost) universal roaming (use your Wi-fi-equipped device in any hotspot,…
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Help my family see Mars
Mars is whizzing by, the skies are clear ? and I can’t get my telescope to work! If you have a manual for a Tasco Starguide 80 telescope (or the Nexstar 80, which I understand to be the same beast with a different brand), please send me a PDF, a photocopy or read it out…
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Healing the health service
Ideology may have created it ? ideology of the purest, most saintly kind ? but it won’t be ideology that saves the NHS. It will be management ? creative, inspirational management that we somehow have to free from burden of decades of ideology, from left and right. Boring really. The FT reports on a really…
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Electricity
Flows of electricity are obviously going to be a big deal over the coming decades. According to Wired Magazine, in the kind of euphoric article that wouldn’t be possible since the big East Coast black-out, the whole world will be a single, frictionless electricity grid within a decade and the stuff will flow unimpeded by…