November 2007
New look for BBC Fetched from Up Your Ego 18 minutes ago.
New look for BBC →
In December the homepage of many internet users in the Uk is going to change - well in reality it won’t properly change until January unless they actually decide to view the new version - but thats a technicality.
What am I waffling about? OK I’ll tell you - bbc.co.uk has lived in its current form for a fair few years now - the blue/white boxes and the large image at the top - people know it and...
The BBC homepage is going web2.0 in January - brand new look, wider form and centre aligned.
By upyourego 9 minutes ago in St Helier, Jersey.
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Fetched from Up Your Ego’s Photos 22 minutes ago.
Doing time for a Teddy Bear →
I often have ideas for blog posts, some are quick fixes that I can knock out in a few minutes - others stay in my drafts folder for weeks while I work on exactly how I want to phrase them.
One such lengnthy piece is ‘Born Again Athiest’ and is an article about how I onced believed but now am just a miserable sinner - or something along those lines.
Anyway, the reason for telling you this is an...
MPH: Noise →
Here is a video clip, recorded by some nice person at the MPH show featuring the Top Gear boys (when will they do an official DVD?) and is the segment about noise.
Richard and Jeremy argue over who has the loudest car and then they get Marc Parnell to come in and play a drumkit made out of car parts and it is amazing.
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Top Gear is back
God bless October
MPH: Noise
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iPlayer Air Fetched from Up Your Ego 50 minutes ago.
iPlayer Air →
According to an interview the BBC Backstage team did with BBC Directory of Future Media, Ashley Highfield, the new version of the iPlayer will be cross platform and will use Adobe Air - something I’m sure is already widely known.
What’s more interesting is that it’s going to be a streaming solution - like the way ITV went with ITV.com and personally I think this is a MUCH better idea.
Several...
Soldier Soldier →
There’s a typical shit stiring article on the Daily Mail website about a couple of women who basically caused enough of a stink to force a group of disabled soldiers (Iraq/Afganistan victims) to leave the swimming pool.
Apparently a couple of lanes had been closed off to help with their rehabilitation as the military hosptial pool wasn’t big enough.
The women complained about having part of the...
I hate breaking news →
As the title suggests, I’m not a big fan of the phrase “breaking news”, I like the phrase “breaking wind” it’s funny and is almost descriptive, I don’t mind “breaking the ice” as it can feel a bit frosty when you first meet someone - but “breaking news” really bugs me.
Everybody does it from the Daily Mail and the Guardian to the BBC and Sky News - it happens across the English speaking news...
God bless PR Fetched from Up Your Ego 30 minutes ago.
Is broadband essential? →
I was reading the Jersey Evening Post the other day and there was a letter to the editor about the new goods and services tax, I’m not going to talk about GST but instead about a question underneath the image put next to the letter.
The image was a picture of a girl at a computer with a caption saying “Is broadband essential?” I thought about this for a minute, wondered if I could live without...
Just cast my vote →
Well boys and girls I’ve just cast my vote for party leader - you can probably guessed whos box I ticked from the banner on the right, from reading my pointless meandering rambles and from the fact that I’ve come out and said I’m voting for Nick Clegg.
Not to sure about the inclusion of leaflets for each of the two candidates the letter I was sent - OK I can see why it would be useful for...
God bless PR →
One of the things I have to do in my job is interview people, I’ve spoken to a wide range of people on an even wider range of subjects - from Jersey bands and politicians to CEOs of major companies and big UK bands/artists.
The Jersey bands are all cool, they come in, have a chat and enjoy the limelight - the uk unsigned bands do much the same - but the UK bands that have been signed, once...
Lost the bug… Fetched from Up Your Ego 1 hour, 16 minutes ago.
Lost the bug… →
When I first started writing a blog back in November 2004 (god have I really been blogging for three years?) it was like a bug, everything I saw that was of even the slightest interest made me want to blog it.
I’d compose blog posts in my head if I was out and try my best to remember them when I got back to a computer - I’ve written blog posts on my crappy little mobile phone and even found...
I had my legs waxed for Children in Need today.
By upyourego 23 minutes ago in St Helier, Jersey.
Just had my first video piece on BBC One News - ok so it was just in the Channel Islands but hey! http://preview.tinyurl.com/2gehlj
By upyourego 49 minutes ago in St Helier, Jersey.
Oh dear →
Oh god, oh no, oh dear - we’re all going to die of bird flu ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Or maybe not.
[normal service will resume soon…ish]
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The Liberal WI →
My image of the WI, apart from the scary one shown on the naked calendars, is of the mighty middle England, Conservative voting, middle aged women, right-wing Daily Mail reading army.
But my opinion changed the other week when the said something unbelievably sensible and more liberal than I’d ever think I’d hear from the jam making, scarf knitting, fete organising women’s group.
They said that...
An iPhone in Six Months Fetched from Up Your Ego 18 minutes ago.
An iPhone in Six Months →
I wrote yesterday about why I don’t intend to get an iPhone - several reasons but most to do with the nonsense cost difference between the UK and US versions.
But having spoken to an Apple expert this morning I’m thinking of changing my mind - in six months time.
Let me explain. The iPhone goes on sale in France on 29 November 2007 through Orange. Under French law mobile operators have to make a...
Not getting an iPhone Fetched from Up Your Ego 1 hour ago.
Stupid Laws →
Back from holiday - here’s a nonsense article to kick things off.
Yes most laws are stupid but the BBC has listed the ten most stupid laws on the British statute books - although I am tempted to try some of them - just for a laught.
I have already blogged this - when the Times did the same story, or a very similar one a while ago but the BBC story has an actual list and as a geek with mild OCD I...
Not getting an iPhone →
I’ve been on holiday for the past two weeks or so and haven’t fell the desire or pull of the blogosphere, not so much because I’ve had a thrilling time - but more because I went with my wife and two small children and was too stressed to blog.
Fortunately I’m now home again and can get back to my real holiday, the one that lasts for 47 weeks a year - work.
While away in England I saw posters,...
Says it all really…
Fetched from Up Your Ego 1 hour, 24 minutes ago.
Says it all really… →
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