Well, it’s now a done deal. A little over a week ago last Saturday, Frances and I finally (after 8 years together) tied the knot, and got married. We were in a beautiful setting in the Trossachs, with (thankfully) wonderful weather, and surrounded by friends and family. We really couldn’t have asked for a better […]
A change at the BBC for which I have mixed feelings, but in a good way. The change? Evan Davis is moving to the Today programme from his post as BBC Economics Editor. Evan Davis is, to me, amongst the very best of the BBC’s editors. I enjoyed his pieces when he was ‘just’ the Newsnight […]
The US elections are proving absolutely fascinating after Hillary Clinton won the latest primary, and there are some top-class BBC journalists doing an excellent job reporting this interesting process to us Brits. Jon Snow, former ITN Washington correspondent (My review of his autobiography here), has charged over there the last week or so, and has […]
Is it just me, but is the news today that house prices have fallen ’sharply’are ‘turning down’ a self-fulfilling media prophecy, along the same line as the run on Northern Rock not so long ago. Also, why is a monthly -0.8% drop, but an annual rise of 6.9% considered a ’sharp tumble’? That’s the BBC speaking, […]
As part of my job I have to think of worse-case scenarios, and plan/consider the response for them. As I’m a full-time computer geek, this is along the lines of “what if this computer fails”, or “how to recover last months reports”, or “can we cope with double the demand”. Disconcertingly, managers always also go […]
As my post from last year about BBC trailers/miscellaneous advert music approaches a staggering 700 comments, I thought it made a lot of sense to revisit the post, summarise some of the big ‘discoveries’ we’ve made, and remind folk of some advert questions that haven’t been answered. Personally, my favourite piece of music at the moment […]
It’s not a question I’d really thought to ask, to be honest. But Evan Davis latest post to his ‘Evanomics’ weblog is fascinating for it’s interesting explanation about what the Nobel Prize for Economics was about this year. Or, at least, what we call the Nobel Prize for Economics, for it seems there’s actually no […]
I imagine - hope even - that a lot of people were taken aback to hear the news today that a ’senior judge’ is calling for everybody to be put on the DNA database. The main reason cited it’d be ‘fairer’ than the widely acknowledged to be broken and unfair system, where anybody arrested by […]
A while back I was poking around lovefilm.com to choose a few DVD’s to receive, and stumbled upon the DVD of the classic BBC drama, The Day of the Triffids, and have just sat through all six episodes whilst Frances is away for the day on the Waverley (and I wanted to put my feet […]
Mark Mardell’s most recent weblog entry superbly explains the recent tensions between Poland and Germany that so marked the last EU treaty gathering: Poland had won concessions in the voting system, but made overt reference to the suffering they experienced during the second world war. The post itself is a fascinating read, and does an excellent […]
