October 30th, 2012
Goodbye old friend. You’re the one who told me about the news. The sports results. And what was on TV later. Looking back now you seem so old-fashioned. And maybe you were. I had to sit and wait whilst you cycled through various pages, waiting for the one I wanted to see. Your blocky text. [...]
March 11th, 2011
Like most people, I woke up this morning to the news of the devastating earthquake that’s hit North-east Japan. I was in the car for an hour listening to the drama unfold on Radio 5Live, and every time my car stopped in the rush hour traffic I hit refresh on Facebook, quickly checked Skype and [...]
January 14th, 2011
I’m a boy. Therefore the return of Top Gear next weekend excites me. I wonder what will be happening with The Stig now? Watch the trailer below. Want more? There are some good clips of Russian and Australian Top Gear here.
November 12th, 2010
I know not everybody is a fan of the travelling Time Lord – but I am. I’m of that age I suppose where Saturday nights revolved around hiding behind sofas and playing with laser guns (which all seemed to have some kind of wheel inside which flashed as you pulled the trigger). Since the show [...]
October 15th, 2010
I couldn’t have put it better myself. Mitch Benn, resident songsmith from Radio 4′s “The Now Show“, puts into words (and music) just how flippin’ brilliant the Beeb is.
September 27th, 2008
Just catching up with news on the BBC News web site and I was struck by this paragraph in a story relating to the huge cash injection George Bush Jr is trying to get through. Now, I admit to getting slightly confused when converting between Euros, Dollars, Sterling and the like… but even I’m sure [...]
May 20th, 2008
There’s been a lot in the techie press lately about the death of “traditional media”, especially newspapers and magazines. Driving into the Leeds office this morning, I was listening to my favourite podcast This Week in Tech (TWiT as it’s known), when they began discussing the death of newspapers. A topic that, as a former [...]