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Published on 30 November 2008 in

Shops get emergency CD deliveries – BBC News The demise of Woolworths means record company SWAT teams are now racing across the land, delivering those most essential of supplies that are Take That CDs. (tags: Woolworths music TakeThat) 25 examples of best practice on BBC blogs "I started compiling this for internal usage to help the teams I work with but as the examples started to grow then i thought i might as well have it outside the firewall for posterity. This is probably part one. After all I haven’t mentioned Robert Peston yet." Interesting post from Jem Stone, and not just mentioned by mere here at all due to the fact that one of my posts is mentioned. Honest. (tags: BBC blogs blogging)

Icesave Cash Back

Published on 29 November 2008 in , , , , ,

So about two months ago, a substantial amount of my money ended up stuck in the British operation of a failed Icelandic bank, known in the UK as Icesave. Well after a bit of a wait - and nowhere near as long as most people originally expected - my cash has now been returned.

links for 2008-11-29

Published on 29 November 2008 in

Countryfile shifts to peak time but loses middle-aged female hosts – guardian.co.uk The Guardian makes a big thing about Countryfile moving to prime time and losing its roster of four middle aged female presenters, yet reading the article it appears ALL the presenters – male or female – are being replaced, bar John Craven. A more important question has to be, why does someone think that replacing almost everyone who have helped get Countryfile up to be a popular enough programme to move it to primetime in the first place, is actually a good idea? Talk about potentially ruining the programme… (tags: BBC Countryfile BBCOne ageism sexism)

links for 2008-11-28

Published on 28 November 2008 in

Can Stephen Fry kill a gadget? Rory Cellan-Jones asks the question following Mr Fry’s recent slamming of the Blackberry Storm on Twitter. I’d say the crux of the problem is poor product design in the first place – people like Stephen Fry are just very visible messengers of design problems – not the cause. Not that I’ve used a Storm… (tags: Blackberry RoryCellenJones Twitter StephenFry BlackberryStorm Vodafone mobile gadgets) Government to own majority of RBS – BBC News Would would have thought that 57.9% of a major banking group like the Royal Bank of Scotland, would end up owned by the nation? (tags: RoyalBankOfScotland RBS banks banking bankingcrisis creditcrunch) The Day of the Triffids to be remade by BBC First Doctor Who, then Survivors, next the classic Day of the Triffids. Are there no new sci-fi ideas? Still, I hope the ending is better than the 1981’s "Oh lets go to the Isle of Wight – it’ll be fine there!", before the show abruptly ended. (tags: DayOfTheTriffids BBC BBCOne scifi) Soap Set to Clean up at Auction! Brookside Close is up for sale. Guide price is £550,000-£600,000. Now if we could get a few people to put £30 in each…... View Article

links for 2008-11-27

Published on 27 November 2008 in

London’s crossings best in Europe – BBC News I always think the fact that you don’t get a green man AND have cars turning right at the same helps make Britain’s pedestrian crossings some of the best in the world. But big minus points to cars that don’t let you cross safely, by zooming through on red. (tags: roads pedestriancrossings london) Why does this wanker hate pubs so much? – Pete Brown’s Blog "I’m always conscious of trying not to swear too gratuitously on this blog – it’s not professional. And this move is all about financial revenue rather than doing anything to combat binge drinking. But how fucking stupid do you have to be to give tax breaks on the drinks that teenagers are throwing up in the streets, and single out the beer that many people enjoy responsibly in community pubs for special punishment?" Pete Brown – author of two fantastic beer books (buy, buy, buy) – puts the boot in. (tags: PeteBrown alcholol AlastairDarling tax) Western extension: Londoners have spoken and the Mayor has listened "The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has announced that the results of a public consultation on the western extension mean he will... View Article