Out
Posted: Fri 4 March, 2005 Filed under: Geeky, General Leave a comment »Another quiet day today, mainly due to being away from the computer, sorting out nasty – in some cases very nasty – technical tests and the like.
Not fun, but all part of life at the moment. *sigh*
Quiet
Posted: Thu 3 March, 2005 Filed under: Animals, General 3 Comments »We’ve got guests here this weekend, so The Hound is in kennels from today. I’ve just come home and wow, is it quiet without barking, door scratching, and all the noises you come to get used to with a dog in the house.
Definitely going to take some getting used to. Still, it’s only ’til Sunday afternoon…
M&S
Posted: Thu 3 March, 2005 Filed under: General 2 Comments »Interesting today to see that M&S have chosen to withdraw all their advertising from Associated Newspapers. (AKA Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, and London Evening Standard) It’s all to do with how the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday (in particular) have apparently taken it upon themselves to slag off M&S at any opportunity. Considering that the Mail services the very same market that M&S aim for, it’s seen as possibly a bit of a self-inflicted wound, but it’ll be interesting to see what message gets conveyed to Associated Newspapers.
This advertising is worth at least £1m , with M&S paying (apparently) about £32,000 for a full-page ad in the Daily Mail. I’m certainly looking forward to seeing what the response will be.
TV stuff
Posted: Thu 3 March, 2005 Filed under: General, Reviews(ish) 3 Comments »No, TV as in Television, not as in Transvestism. Honest.
I’ve found Jamie’s School Dinners on Channel 4 really quite interesting so far. I like seeing someone with a passion for what they believe in trying to pass on that passion to others, and much as I loathe the lithping mockney twat, it’s obvious that he’s been shocked by what schoolchildren are being fed. It’s hard to imagine feeding kids on a budget of 37p per head for their entire lunch, and you can see why the lowest common denominator is what’s preferred. But Oliver’s attempts to improve the school diet make for interesting viewing, and it’s certainly thought-provoking. Particularly when you start thinking “Is that what I want to happen to my kids?”.
As for “Desperate Housewives, what can I say, I love it. OK, it’s not perfect, but there’s a decent slice of very black humour going through it – something that American dramas suddenly seem to be understanding far better. Six Feet Under, Sopranos, and several others have certainly raised the bar on this, and they’re getting better at it all the time. Housewives manages to combine funny bits with the dark side, and is acutely observed. I just find myself wondering whether they’ll sort it all out over the next six weeks, or whether everything will bleed over into Season 2. I suspect it will…
Googlism
Posted: Thu 3 March, 2005 Filed under: General 1 Comment »Bizarrely – and I’ve no idea why it’s suddenly being searched for so regularly – I come up as #2 on Google for “cuntflaps on countdown“. It’s a ‘lucky’ coincidence, as I’ve never seen that word mentioned on countdown. But obviously someone has…