Dive into the archives.
- Where I’ve (not) been
Here’s a map of where I’ve been in the world, as supplied by World66.com. And there’s something faintly disappointing about it… maybe it’s because so much of my travel is concentrated on particular countries, like the US and France, rather than one-country-one-visit. Although I’m quite proud of the blobs over on the far right - [...]
- Those were the days
I’m still not really sure how my browser ended up at the quite remarkable TV Cream today, but I’m glad it did. That’s despite the shocking image above, of a gaggle of Radio 1 DJs (is “gaggle” the right collective noun?) preparing to play - we must assume - football.
I swear to God I [...]
- When auto recommendation goes wrong
Just before heading off to the States in the New Year, I joined Audible.com - a quite wonderful treasure-trove of audio programmes. For less than £10 a month I get a full audio book - around eight hours of audio - and a monthly subscription to an audio magazine.
So far so good. For my [...]
- Steinberg’s Hierarchy of Scandal
mySociety supremo Tom Steinberg has a wonderful chart on his weblog which ranks scandal by severity and - uniquely - splits actors and actions. He asks “is it useful for anything” and I’d argue it certainly is. I clearly recall the legendary Bill Allsopp presenting us with something similar early on in our journalism course [...]
- Reminisce
The big three-oh approaches in less than two hours, so it seems appropriate - having just watched School of Rock - to stick some great (old) music on. First up: Depeche Mode, who just couldn’t get enough when I was around a third of the age I’ll be in around two hours.
Appropriately, the CD [...]
- Historic sights in Surrey Docks
We went out for a walk today, and decided to head east and south, round the Rotherhithe peninsula, having pretty well explored upriver towards… well, frankly, the bars and restaurants around Shad Thames.
So, off we toddle, through the mixed-up modern architecture of these reclaimed docks, which were themselves built on reclaimed marshland. We followed the [...]
- When cut and paste goes wrong
From tonight’s TeamTalk email, disturbing evidence that their reporters can’t even cut and paste a quote from the Rangers club website…
“Rangers have fined Holland international Fernando Ricksen £10,000 for elbowing a Hibernian player during a cup semi-final.
[...]
The club released a statement on its official website in which manager Alex McLeish said: “I have reviewed this [...]
- The President in Roswell
Unvarnished and uncommented upon, I bring you this treat: a transcript from the official White House website of remarks made by the President of the United States to the press pool, while on a trip to Roswell, New Mexico, last month.
Remarks by the President to the Press Pool
Nothin’ Fancy Cafe
Roswell, New Mexico
11:25 A.M. MST [...]
- Welcome, Lingeriebowl pervs
Well, I’m both horrified and secretly delighted that so many people are turning up here looking for more on Lingeriebowl, and finding only a post on Sepp Blatter and Benny Hill. That really appeals to my sense of humour. But it also confirms my dark suspicions that people actually had their boats floated by the [...]
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