The experimenting, the failing and the trying again cycle continues with HD video. After a detailed conversation with Daniel the other day, and some sidebar
Category: Stuff
taking tests
I love it when people enrol on courses and then just can’t be bothered to do the work. Click for the big picture…
Friday stuff
Like your music? I’ve just been doing a Quality Assurance listen-back/dip-in to this weekend’s show, and I have to say that the first and last
On not being a bookworm
Yesterday, in a local library here in Oxfordshire, a mother was using one of the public internet terminals. Fortunately it was a quiet time, because
Not having a bath (and other Sunday night randoms)
Half an hour ago Soph said she was going for a bath. Because it is Sunday, obv. Anyway. We are both still on the couch.
Listening and watching
A little bit cross-media, but bear with me… Over at the podcast, we get a lot of email from artists who have been channelled towards
A return to style, if not form
At last I’ve nailed that big prose piece I’ve been working on. The good news is that I can flip back to my usual blogging
Better off read
Editorial mistakes aren’t the exclusive preserve of the hardcopy media. BBC News Online drops the ball, every now and then. Anyone who reads today’s first
In need of a weekend
Weekends have, in recent years, become periods of almost mini-holiday; little periods of respite when we would take the opportunity to throttle-back, ease off the
Musically challenged
Challenges come in two kinds. There’s the ‘Oh bloody hell, no!’ kind and there’s the ‘Wow, that’ll be interesting, but fun!’ kind. I have decided
Right wing press, hoist by their own petard
Journalistic standards at the Daily Mail continue to plummet with this latest headline. How ironic, really, given that one of the Daily Mail’s continual battle
It’s a dangerous life; moving in transit
Sporting injuries. I’ve had a couple. During my first inter-school cricket match, I took a beamer to the face and had to retire from the
Parking mad
Apparently the law says that if you drive a Mercedes you can park anywhere you like on Sunday. This is in the heart of our
Just a quickie…
It has been alleged that Wayne Rooney told his wife, by SMS, that he’d been up to his old tricks and sleeping with a prostitute.
Flats and Sharps
Surprisingly, this evening I have found the time to restring/retune my faithful SG. Unsurprisingly, it still sounds as though it is being played by a
Putting words into mouths
Journalism and accounting seem not to mix at The Daily Mail, which is a significant problem for Mail journalists, as they often like to examine,
Stuffed, eventually
Restaurant review: The Rose Revived, Newbridge, Witney, OX29 7QD The in-laws came down from Worcestershire today, so we toddled down to the Rose Revived for
A weekend planned – and unplanned
Yesterday, while I was driving back to the yard from Highclere Horse Trials, I had one of those ‘I’m going to fall asleep any minute
It’s easy from the ground
Eventing is one of those sports that just looks easy. But not only is there more to it than one might think, there is a
Ah, now I understand why the Daily Mail hates the BBC
I didn’t realise that Daily Mail staff had to pay a massive premium on their television licence fee just, presumably, for being Daily Mail employees:
Sending signals
Journalists, WTF? I know the house style of the The Sun is best summed up as ‘aim for the worst of all that is bad
A day trip
Today I went to London. Just to see if it was real. I took a HUGE bag of Sandwich Spread sandwiches. Unfortunately the sandwiches were
Losing it…
‘Children will always be children’, the television advert for the French dairy product said a few minutes ago. Do we need to write in, pointing
Wasted on the young?
Thanks (entirely, I am sure) to the outside-but-internal assistance of Daniel, our broadband problems seem to have gone away. If it wasn’t for his help,
Your Sunday night Information Bulletin is here!
Random stuff appearing in random order… First (I nearly wrote ‘Fist’ there, but that’s a whole different story) do me a favour? Can you please
Ladies and Gentlemen!
We are, this evening, going to bring you an amazing magical illusion. I shall give you *the answer* to a riddle and, later, I shall
Getting fucked by BT Broadband
It seems that we have somehow subscribed to BTs reduced hours tariff. Our broadband came back online at 9.22 this morning. And took itself offline
Fucking BT Broadband
Warning! There may possibly be a stray sweary turn of phrase hereabouts So BT. What a complete and utter bunch of cunts. We have no
What’s the difference between smoking and smoking?
Professor Steve Field is the chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners. So one would imagine that Professor Field knows what he’s on about,
Special guest…
We cover so much ground and so many topics in this week’s podcast that, frankly, I couldn’t list them all for the website. That’s because
Good old BT (the latest update)
So, to recap, we have been experiencing on-going problems with our BT Vision box. Daily rebooting, to make the thing work; dropped menus; dropped (paid
Good old BT (this morning’s version)
I was struggling to download a package that I have to edit – struggling, because my download speed was around the same levels as last
Good old BT
I haven’t really chronicled my current battle with BT yet. I’ll just say that my first phone call with BT’s overseas call centre actually had
Sunday morning in the Big Brother house
Sophie has just gone back to bed with a cup of tea. She’s now reading. Bren is downstairs. He has just backed up many websites
A judge says… (some dubious things)
Whilst passing sentence on Sean Goodfellow and Murray McAllan, both found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving, temporary judge Kenneth McIver said, ‘As in
Video (from the Latin: ‘I see’)
I’m desperately trying to keep this away from a Bristol-related rant. And also I’m going to work hard to keep this away from an ‘Underage
Blogging bullets
17th March, 2004 My first blog post Over here I’m re-reading it all Sad git
Ha-ha, fooled you!
Yesterday Soph and I drove in to London, parked the car at Queensway and caught the tube to Mile End where we met Ash for
A very Spanish show
This week’s digital broadcast (or podcast, if you prefer) is out and bouncing around every corner of the interwebs. It’s a very Spanish affair –
Sometimes I actually *like* winding people up
Dear Aurora Berg, I feel eminently qualified to assist your company in a diverse range of operational solutions, but I feel that I could add
So, this eventing lark…
Ho hum. The commentary starts before we even left the yard because Tom, evidently, was having one those days. Tom, who normally marches up the
Gone phishing
So the phishers/scammers are at it again and this time they’re almost but not quite clever. An email screeched in to the podcast’s gmail account,
Ups, downs, lefts, rights and straight-aheads
Edited: Saturday times in This Saturday Tom and I are competing again. If you’re in the Ascott-under-Wychwood/Burford/Charlbury area, the British Eventing One-Day-Event is free to
And the world gets more screwed up…
According to this headline in The Daily Mail, a senior circuit judge has been ‘forced to resign after a passionate affair with a male prostitute’.
Two days in 50 minutes
I’m watching ‘My Super Sweet 16UK’ on Viva. I am gobsmacked. Spoilt little bitches like this actually exist in this country? They should be held
Thanks for the feedback!
I’d like to thank my mother for not practising birth control, and my agent, and my publicist… Thank you for the comments on the vids,
Driven to distraction 3
The journey concludes with part 3 of 3. Obviously… Part three of my drive from home to the stables, accompanied – on this leg –
Driven to distraction 2
The journey continues with part 2 of 3… Music by Norwegian Recycling, possibly the greatest mashup artist in the world.
Driven to distraction
Ages – months – ago, I said that if I could find a way to *safely* mount my video camera in the car, I’d give