I expected the England-USA game to be a draw. First game, against a team many of whom play in England, bound to be well organised… see the series of tournament draws against Ireland for the likely result! But France's performance … Continue reading
If you see lots of films, you know that many of them could be better. One easy example would be to lose the opening scenes of the otherwise very good Black Book and to tell the story in a linear … Continue reading
The start of the story is here. We contacted both the Guardian's 'consumer champion' who got a commitment from Southwark to waive the extra costs, and then published the story in February, as well as our MP, who got the … Continue reading
When I got this PC in at the end of 2008, I set it up as a dual boot Ubuntu/Windows XP machine. Its hard drive is split into four partitions: a Windows one, a 'most of' Ubuntu one, one for … Continue reading
USB TV tuners are liable to import duty rather than ordinary boring components. Usenet binary group search site Newzbin does infringe copyrights: I have found that the defendant well knows that it is making available to its premium members infringing … Continue reading
The BBC's story on this is on their news front page, probably because it combines a Christian, gay sex, and the former Archbishop of Canterbury (who submitted a witness statement warning of "future civil unrest" if judges did not rule … Continue reading
Lewisham has a separate mayoral election, thanks to a very narrow win (51%-49% on something like a 25% turnout, so about one in eight voting for) in a 2001 referendum. What this means is that one person (it's been the … Continue reading
.. having arranged a postal vote. I bet Gordon Brown wished a lot more people had done so. … Continue reading
At some point between last year's snooker world championships and this year's, did the BBC lose / give up one of their two 'red button' channels on Freeview? Why? I am sure both tables were covered on them last year, … Continue reading
I suspect I am late to this particular party, but I bought Death List recently. It is staring, written, directed, filmed, edited, produced, dubbed, and most other things by Ara Paiaya. On one level, it is pretty awful: I'm going … Continue reading