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A Beautiful Daze
Apparently everything I think on Hearst time is the protected copyright of my employers- which of course is hoo-ha, but commercial lawyers will fight every battle based on risk. The reason for me bringing that up is that I'm writing this very blog on my employer's time.. Readjusting to being in an digital media office in London and not a wet and ( Read more... ) -
Avant Guardian Angel Dust Mite
I have an interview next Wednesday with the writers of Neighbours, following my succesful participation in the writing trial (Story 2.0; there seems to be a ubiquity of decimal points doing the rounds at the moment).
I finished the Wire; and thought that instead of a montage sequence, the final 10 minutes of the show could have been better served ( Read more... ) -
Sub editors will be the death of us all
It should be that everyone can enjoy culture of a standard. It should also be that the quality of the media relates to the capital invested in it- or, at least, it should figure in the equation somewhere. Today's rant concerns the readerly stalwarts of London's transport infrastructure; cos when you're on a hot, sweaty 35 minute journey down the ( Read more... ) -
Mixed results
This weekend I raced through season 4 of the Wire; and got all nostalgiac and shit about all them stories that find themselves getting caught up in the crossfire. I tried watching Generation Kill, but I'm too close to post-modern Baltimore right now. I finally, and not without some threats of assymetric war, reached an agreement with my landlord ( Read more... ) -
Net Neutrality
Heightening your awareness about the biggest single threat to the internet (as we know it). This technology was meant to empower, spark e-democracies, connect people as never before- you might have guessed this was an affront to the corporations whose self imposed mandate it is to produce, regulate and control the media available.
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Lights in the sky
Gary McKinnon has lost his fight against extradition to the US. They're making an example of him for hacking into NASA archives. He was looking for information about UFOs, specifically about the TR3B; the triangular craft pictured in my avatar. My avatar photo is taken from BBC news footage recorded in Kirkuk in Iraq in 2002. The cameraman, filming ( Read more... ) -
No sense of humour
Regarding the outrage that has ensued following Facebook's pro-knifing bias hitting the front pages and top stories this afternoon, I'm afraid we're witnessing another example of 'stupid England'. Who do we have, publically, expressing this anger, disgust, vehemently spitting disdain at the sheer bloody state of it all? Only the uncle of the Harry ( Read more... ) -
Fix up
The vet had never seen anything like it. "Miracle is a word that often gets bandied around" he said, "but I can't explain this". Mother had been praying.
My cat is completely 100% better. Fine. Perfect. As if nothing had ever happened. I'm so happy. -
£3,000,000,000
News comes through that we're spending 3bn on new nuclear weapons and warheads (how 'non proliferation' is that?) without consultation, without discussion in parliament. An insightful post from Briar on the CiF forum sums it up so accurately:
This explains the whole history of post war Britain. Dependency on the US meant that we could not create ( Read more... ) -
Saline drip
Seems that my lovely siamese cat drank some antifreeze over the weekend, and is now on a saline drip at the local vets. She's got advanced kidney failure, and short of a miracle will be put down ( Read more... )