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To one and all. But mostly just to you, most faithful reader.
Lucecannon may or may not be back in the New Year. Have a good one.

Posted on December 23rd, 2009 under Behind the scenes. Tags: Christmas, lucecannon. Comments: None

At the heart of the Digital Britain report published yesterday is the government’s laudable desire to ensure everyone in the UK has access to broadband internet access.
In the words of the report: “We need a programme to ensure that everyone can connect to the digital economy, that its benefits and advantages are available to all. [...]

Posted on January 30th, 2009 under Behind the scenes, Broadcasting, Other Media. Tags: broadband internet access, DAB, digital audio broadcasting, Digital Britain, Stephen Carter. Comments: None

The briefest of posts to keep things updated (it’s all about metadata, apparently) and to note that RSS feeds are officially crap. The News of the World doesn’t even have one, as far as I can see. Although it is today featuring the video of Prince Harry indulging the sort of forces-speak you’d encounter any day [...]

Posted on January 12th, 2009 under Behind the scenes, Other Media. Tags: News of the World, newspapers, RSS feeds. Comments: 1

 
There probably won’t be much action on this blog over the next 2 weeks given that the school holidays start in less than an hour and one of the perks of freelancing is taking heaps of time off when you can least afford it.
Suffice to say, then, that I wish a very merry Christmas to [...]

Posted on December 19th, 2008 under Behind the scenes. Tags: blogging, Happy Christmas. Comments: 2

Just because I can and to get it off my chest and because it’s Friday and because I can’t follow Little Dorritt well enough to give you a critique (who’s the strangely French man biting fruit and prostitutes in equal measure?)
Why oh why do I stumble across the threshold of my humble abode every day [...]

Posted on November 7th, 2008 under Behind the scenes. Tags: Little Dorrit. Comments: None

A short postscript to my (rather long) post about the BPG lunch with the BBC’s Michael Lyons. Sadly, not all BPG members are as young as they used to be. Quite a few are freelance (including yours truly) and quite a few probably haven’t hacked in earnest for years (I am not, yet, one of their [...]

Posted on October 16th, 2008 under Behind the scenes, Television. Tags: BBC, BPG, Jonathan Ross. Comments: 2

Click on the Weekend Briefing link on the left hand of this page side to get a round-up of media stories from the weekend’s newspapers. This service now includes links to the original stories as published online.
This round-up has been compiled mostly from the newspapers’ websites, rather than from hard copies of the papers themselves [...]

Posted on October 12th, 2008 under Behind the scenes. Tags: media, newspapers, stories. Comments: None

Apropos of nothing and before I head off to do the weekly shop because that’s how glamorous my life really is. Yes, it was J Sheekey’s in central London on Wednesday. Today it’s Tesco in Chard. How the mighty are deflated.
I just feel the need to express a little rant about the whole Disney princess [...]

Posted on September 19th, 2008 under Behind the scenes. Tags: Disney, Disney Princess. Comments: 5

“Four O’fucking clock.” This is how I teach my children to swear, by saying “Four o’fucking clock.” When it is four o’fucking clock, in the bloody morning. And the light in their room is on, one of them is wandering the hall having wet the bed again, the other is gaily playing with the new [...]

Posted on September 10th, 2008 under Behind the scenes. Tags: libel. Comments: 2