Thursday, 27 December 2007. Literature
Christmas is over, and we can at last return to normality. I was working the whole of Christmas week, which is a story for another time. However, in the week prior to this years commercial pagan festival I was out doing the Christmas shop, which means trailing round the fairly poor selections of shops in my home town looking for gifts.
We have no bookshop... I'll repeat this, (with capitals), because it is a fairly important point, We Have No Bookshop. W.H.Smiths, is not a bookshop. Unless you stock all published works by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, you are not a bookshop. Read the rest of this entry »
Friday, 14 December 2007. Television
The BBC has just released a new streaming service for their BBC iPlayer service. Up-until now, my experiements with the BBC iPlayer have been disapointing at best.
I got an invite to test the Beta back in the summer, but sadly iPlayer is Windows only, so I was unable to run it on my super quick iMac and had to boot up my XP Laptop. After many wasted hours trying to register the application, upgrade Internet Explorer, upgrade Windows Media Player, downgrade Windows Media Player (long story), login, login again, and wait for a download that never happened. I wasn't impressed. When I realised that not only did the program fail to download, but had it successfully downloaded- it would've been rendered useless by crippling DRM seven days later. I gave up. Read the rest of this entry »
Thursday, 06 December 2007. Apple, Comment and Film
It's December, and I haven't posted for a over a month so I apologise for that. To make up for it, I have a few brief notes to tell you about.
In no particular order, I need to cover a film or two, the Writers Guild Strike, my brother's moment of fame, and a few more bits and pieces....
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