Rare first edition of The Importance of Being Earnest given to charity shop - in a handbag.
EA wants 'open gaming platform'
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The commentary today mainly concerns the various BBC shakeups, so skip that with impunity. Bring on the elephashion gurus and Astérix anniversaires!
ROFLMHHAO. +10 points for houses vandalised by mystical woogies or the electromagnetic spectrum!
("Literally" refracted light, did it?)
Elephants sense 'danger' clothes
Turn off e-mail and do some work
I couldn't do my job without email. Hardly anyone does work face-to-face in my little neck of the woods, and all things I need for my job (scripts, photos...) are sent as attachments. I like it this way, of course.
Six jailed over illegal dog fight
My personal theory is that the Nintendo Wii was named after someone's typo of "wiki".
What are the Knights Templar up to now?
As usual, things far less exciting than in the stories. I'm not good at reading between lines, but I don't think I saw any mention of orgies in there.
Superficially, I really dislike the whole "Creative Future" thing. It feels about on par with "Ministry of Peace" for accuracy.
I'm with the idea of scrapping the introduction of yet more local services. That's another visceral reaction coming from the same place that causes me to rank global news stories higher up our news pages than national.
I think we are veering too far in the direction of giving people what they want instead of what they need (and might find they quite enjoy). Inform, educate, entertain - we need to be doing more of the first two, by stealth if necessary, because nobody else is guaranteed to, whereas anyone can show videos of grannies falling over or celebrities failing to cook/dance/be funny. Your auntie isn't always your best, coolest friend, but she still has a purpose.
Then again, if I was in charge, we would already be running my little brainchildren, advert-length snippets explaining things like the Highway Code and how to use an apostrophe correctly. These would easily replace one of the about five or six self-promotion slots you seem to get in between prime-time programmes, particularly on Three.
Honestly, those things are verging on being as annoying as adverts. Idents are fine, even if I suspect too much money is being spent on persuading hippos to swim in circles. But internal plugging is still advertising and should be done with a sane limit. Don't get me ranting about the way they squash credits to one side and talk over them in order to insert yet more plugs...
Oh, and because BBC.com users "unequivocally" believed advertising would reduce their trust in the BBC brand
(The Guardian), naturally the BBC's global website is to carry ads.
Bear in mind that no method of determining where someone is browsing from is completely accurate. People in the UK, people who pay the licence fee, will see adverts - never mind when the same people go on holiday.
I'm prone to feeling like a geek-lite and generally a bit of a fraud in my junior web-assistanty job, so a former colleague, now elsewhere in the department, saying "I don't think you'll go - you're too valuable to the team" was nice.
Astérix - interview with Uderzo.
'World's smallest radio' unveiled
The WEP wireless security system is 'broken'. This is known. I've heard from a few security geeks who all say the same thing: use WPA, WPA-2 if possible, and when something better comes along, use that.
Chester's (cool, Roman-era) walls are falling to bits onoes!
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