I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again: I really hate DRM. If ever there’s a technology designed to drive customers away from legitimate music, film, and tv downloads, and back to bittorrents, then DRM is it. I had an infuriating experience over Christmas recently trying to watch a movie I’d downloaded off LoveFilm. Luckily, I hadn’t paid money for the film: it was part of a special free Christmas offer, presumably dreamt up…
Via Rhodri, Charles Arthur and mytornadohell.livejournal.com, comes this article by Caroline Phillips from last Tuesday’s Evening Standard. You’ll want to read it in full for the full effect. You may wish to read it several times. You may wonder if it is simply a parody. It is not. Of course there’s nothing in the slightest bit amusing about losing your home. But this? Well… read it for yourself and see what you think. These are…
So presumably in future I should expect not just the cheeky girls to be wandering past our house, but Lembit Opik too? I’ll start composing my haiku now.
So we finally went down to the Screen on Baker Street to see Casino Royale on Saturday night. Yeah, I know, about three weeks after everyone else, but there you go. And it’s really good, of course, but that’s more than could be said for our fellow viewers. Just like Rob and Al before us (although admittedly they were distracted from rather more highbrow pursuits) our enjoyment was diminished by being in close proximity to…
After 4 days in San Fran, it was time to move on. It was about a 10 minute walk from our hotel down to the car rental office, where we were due to collect our convertible. All downhill, though, and not via The Tenderloin, so I figured that we’d be fine to walk down there with our bags. It was only as I rounded the corner to the Dollar car rental office, struggling under the…
Any plans I may have had to catch up with some blogging in this slightly quieter of weeks have been dashed somewhat by the fact that my ageing laptop nearly died last night. I’m not a happy bunny… it was sitting on the table happily downloading some files when suddenly there was a funny noise. “What’s happened to your computer?” asked Sal, spotting the dreaded Blue Screen of Death… Now it’s all like “hard disk…
Ooh-err. Post number 500. I feel like I should be writing something all significant and important… A retrospective of the 3 years and 10 months (has it really been that long?) that have passed since my first post on the 20th January 2003. Perhaps the exactness of the time period is somehow fitting. Perhaps it’s all as insignificant as celebrating the changing of the dates at the end of a year, or remarking on one…
I’ve harped on about this before, of course, with other gigs (Hard-Fi anyone?) but I think it deserves to be repeated: Xfm’s Winter Wonderland Sold Out! Xfm’s Winter Wonderland sees The Kooks, The Feeling, The Automatic, Boy Kill Boy and more, all playing London’s Brixton Academy. Tickets went on sale this morning at 9am (November 3) and sold out in just six minutes! http://www.xfm.co.uk/Article.asp?b=news&id=300082 Yeah, course it did. Six minutes. Right… Then how come I…
A couple of apologies: 1) Well (if anyone still cares) I will get around to documenting the rest of our trip to America eventually, but, you know, it’s just finding the time and all that… 2) Then again, most of the times recently that I’ve thought I might pop over and write a blog, the bloody site has been down. I think Freedom2Surf fixed the database problems I was moaning about the other week, but…
In the evening, after we’d biked the bridge and had some fun, we went down to the Mission, an area named for the Catholic missions built a couple of hundred years ago in an attempt to convert the natives, but now famed for its Mexican food. In particular, burritos. We caught the bus down. As it pulled up on the corner of 16th Street, we realised that this, too, was an, ahem, “interesting” part of…