A thousand words (or less)

Reading Lilia & Stephanie‘s very clever paper on weblog communities, I start asking “Why? What’s my motivation here” (Hey give me a break darling – you can take the boy out of the theatre you know, but you can’t take the theatre out of *this* boy). No really, why would you want to be able…

At least one cheer for the speed of delivery on the UK version of Google Maps – I thought it would take much longer. Viewing maps is fine, but some of the search results are still quirky to say the least and when I look for Whitehall I don’t expect either of these Trouble is…

Darn those pesky folk at we make money not art for pointing to the old computer museum. Can’t they see I’m supposed to be working? OK this is the first computer my father bought in the early eighties – whizz bang spec: 16K ROM 16K RAM (expandable to 48K!!!) and running at a cool 1MHz,…

The Royal Television Society holds its biennial convention in Cambridge this September. Charles Allen, CBE, Chair of the 2005 Convention says this in the invitation blurb: “All of us in the TV industry, producers, broadcasters, are facing what has been described, rather painfully, as ‘Burning Platforms’. Add to that the very real threat of mass…

Just saw this ascii-movie pointed to by Piers in Euan‘s comments. It made my heart sing. The first piece of ascii art I ever saw was in the early 70s – a picture of Racquel Welch that my father and his colleagues had printed – dunno who did the ‘digitising’. I seem to remember it…