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    6Music: get it while it lasts

    I don’t hold out much hope for 6Music. David Hepworth quotes Bob Harris as saying: “It’s my experience that when management has decided to do something like this, they’ve thought about it a lot and nothing is going to change their mind.” There doesn’t seem to be much logic in the public arguments from the [...]

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Entertainment

Cambridge University 800th Anniversary Finale Lightshow

The university lit up two of its most famous buildings this weekend - Kings College and The Senate House - with a lightshow created by ...

People don’t read any more

I was disappointed enough that I couldn't think of a single new album which excited me in 2009. But it was even more alarming to ...

I can’t escape (my music in 2009)

Thanks to @borborygmus for reminding me that my musical review of 2009 is constantly being written on my Last.fm page, and whatever I claim to ...

My 5 favourite movies of the decade (finally)

At last, you get to discover if it was worth the wait. Frankly, no, it wasn't. If you missed numbers 10 to 6 yesterday, they ...

My 10 favourite movies of the decade

OK, there was a lot of jostling to get into these coveted slots, but here are the lucky few which made it. The trophies are ...

The ones which didn’t quite make the top 10 of my movies of the decade

I liked these movies a lot. Just not quite enough to make my top ten of the decade. I'm sure the directors will be distraught. 20. ...

General Election 2010

Your prospective MP’s vision for Cambridge

While we all fear for the future of local journalism, Cambridge blogger Richard Taylor has once again shown that nowadays, independent commentators can – and do – provide a better job of covering local politics than the traditional press. His exemplary coverage (see links below) of the recent Vision for Cambridge in 2020 gathering of [...]

Gadgetry and IT

Woo. Just had 50Mb/sec internet installed

OK, bit the bullet and had my Virgin Media cable internet connection upgraded to 50Mb/sec. Quite painless, smart guy did the installation. That’s the result above. The only problem is that my Devolo dLan 200AV, which I’d used to connect the internet around the house, turns out to max out at around 20Mb/sec, which was [...]

News/Media/Sport

The odd tale of Alphascript Publishing and Betascript Publishing

This is one of the oddest things I’ve ever seen on the internet. A company variously calling itself Alphascript Publishing and Betascript Publishing is taking articles from Wikipedia and publishing them as books. It would appear that the act of doing that is legal, but from the outside, many of the books give the appearance [...]

Other Stuff

Dawn on the Telly!

Dawn appeared on a BBC East documentary in 2000, called “Carry On Nursing..?” – here’s her ninety seconds of fame.