What’s in a headline?
Sorry, Sky, but this is sloppy. Thousands Spent on iPods for Civil Servants screams the tabloidesque link. Shock, horror! Those fat-cat civil servants getting yet another perk, eh? Bring on the...
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You only live twice.
28th May. Commander Ian Lancaster Fleming – author, fantasist, banker, journalist, sailor and failed diplomat – would have been 100 today, had he kept off the gin and cigarettes. The Register, along...
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70/194 ain’t bad
Engadget brings us some niftly liveblogging from WWDC, including shots of some of the slides to which Steve treated the MacFaithful. Here, for example, are the seventy countries – in red – where the...
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Stop the Bloody Wailing!
BBC NEWS | Edinburgh buskers ‘to pipe down’: “Bagpipers on Edinburgh’s historic Royal Mile have been told they will be arrested if they continue to play.” Whatever next? (thanks to Dave Henniker for...
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My three inspirational communicators
Simon Wakeman has tagged me for the ‘Three Inspirational Communicators’ meme. Which, if nothing else, does at least prove that someone reads this blog. In fact, Simon, wasn’t it you who tagged me for...
View ArticleQuantum of record sales
… or ‘Scouting for Audiences’ Thanks to a pair of HomePlugs, an AppleTV and a bargain Samsung LCD that no-one wanted because it’s last year’s model (and it’s white), we can now enjoy all manner of...
View ArticleSome election-day links
Yes, it’s that election today. I’ll be off to the Election Night Party at the US Embassy in just under 24 hours. In the meantime, some links to amuse and / or take your mind off the waiting. Solve the...
View ArticleJames Who?
James Blunt’s in Moscow this week, playing the B1 Club on Thursday night. Which is a great excuse, if one were needed, for this, from my old mate Mitch:
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Compare and contrast
Moscow, January 13, 2010: My pal Luke Harding reports that James Cameron stands accused of ‘borrowing’ from Russian Sci Fi author brothers Boris and Arkady Shrugatsky in creating the world of ‘Avatar’....
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Bluebirds.
A musical question I’ve been pondering for a while. Some twenty five years ago I was driven to school every morning by Simon’s Mum in a entirely unremarkable Nissan Bluebird very much like this one....
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