Historically, record companies have had to "delete" recordings from their catalogue. That’s not to say that they don’t have the master recordings, just that they don’t currently press or keep stock of a particular recording.
In the days of records or CDs where physical manufacture was required, this made sense. To do a run for the […]
I was reading today’s post by Paulie about the centralisation of mass media. This quote particularly struck me:-
Someone else (Ross Sleight of Virgin Games I think?) quoted in-house BBC strategists who claim that - by 2011 - only two events could expect to attract over 10m viewers (a royal wedding or a World Cup Final […]
Following a discussion about Rodin over at Ellee Seymour’s place, I’ve decided to do a quick brain dump of some of my favourite things about Paris.
Rodin Museum. Over on the left bank, not too heavily visited and quite compact for a museum. The gardens are lovely too.
The Musee D’Orsay. Great impressionist art in the setting […]
When I decided to build the site I’m doing, I opted to use Wordpress. Before I started, I made sure that I could run Wordpress without any blog at all.
One of the problems is that by default, Wordpress opens up on the blog. Which is where a rather nice little plugin helps out. The Filosofo […]
If you’ve ever wanted to display weather on your Wordpress site, then I have the plugin for you.
On the site Viper007Bond.com there is a Wordpress plugin called WeatherIcon that can fetch the weather information from the NOAA and present it in a web page for your users. You can customise it too. Deciding what to […]
George Monbiot in the Guardian suggests the following:-
In the past, it has often asked people to speak about contentious issues who - unknown to the BBC - had an undeclared financial interest. These are people working for "thinktanks" that take money from corporations, and advance arguments in the media that are in tune with theirs. […]
I’ve been given a cool site (thanks Skuds!). It allows you to check out either where a movie was filmed, or what has been filmed in a particular location.
http://www.wheredidtheyfilmthat.co.uk/
That said, there are omissions. There’s nothing for Swindon, and yet the town hasn’t had 1 but 2 Bond films shot here (and not much else). Incidentally, […]
Reading Tim Worstall’s piece on Labour party finances, I was reminded of a skill that I have that I don’t advertise much: I can organise a pissup in a brewery.
For a short time I was involved in t’committee of Swindon CAMRA in the role of Social Secretary, which involved organising pissups in breweries. Of the […]
Robert Buckland has restarted blogging at http://www.robertbuckland.co.uk.
To help Robert, I prepared a little video that demonstrates how to write blog entries and update pages in Wordpress. I don’t want to just post it here because of bandwidth, but if anyone wants a copy or has a piece of software for transcoding to .avi or .mov […]
NHS Supply workers on 24-hour strike
"There will be two days where hospitals will not have been able to get their supplies in. This will cause a backlog," the union spokeswoman said. "We expect the effects of the strike to be felt next week."
I think the NHS and the unions have reached a point where, like […]
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