Entries from November 2007

30 November 2007: Freesat Logos

I suspect that when the Freesat launched the other day, it was the first time that anyone had seen, publicly, the Freesat logo. And a few eagle eyed people might have noticed that Freesat originally had a completely different logo, which appeared at a press launch some time ago.

30 November 2007: Salford

It was June 2004 when the BBC’s move of several departments from London to the north west was first announced. The department I worked for (and still work for) was one of those highlighted.

28 November 2007: A seat is all I ask for

Sorry to drag you back to the world of railways and trains again, however today I tried once more to get some seat reservations for the annual trip up north on the old Virgin Train.

27 November 2007: Freesat Website

Well the secret is out. Well right now as I type, it’s not hugely out because the website hasn’t been out for very long. But anyway, the Freesat website is now live, so you can find out all about it, and why you’d want it. Or not want it. Or something.

27 November 2007: Everything Comes Up Rose’s

With the latest series of Doctor Who getting ever closer, news is creeping out about cast and enemies. Like this little one today - according to BBC News, Billie Pipper is popping back for three more episodes.

24 November 2007: Enjoy your trip

It’s quite easy to complain about customer service, but how often do we celebrate it when it is good?

21 November 2007: No Seat

That title up there is what my batch of train tickets that arrived from The Trainline today, proudly proclaims. Three separate trains, on two different days during Christmas, on three different train companies. And no seat.

20 November 2007: Railway Engineering Work

One of the issues of trying to work out my travel arrangements for Christmas, is always trying to get the right information about what’s going on. To be fair, it’s not just as Christmas either.

19 November 2007: Where is the North? (Or, trying to work out when the trains are running at Christmas)

Here’s a question. Where is “The North”? The question came up in my mind whilst thinking about booking train tickets for the dreaded Christmas cross-country train trip in order that I might sit in a different house eating food, watching TV and drinking beer, instead of doing it in my own.

16 November 2007: A day in the work-life of Andrew Paul Bowden

If you’ve ever wondered quite what a Senior Development Producer working on interactive TV products gets up to for a living, now is time to find out. And if you’ve never wondered, now is the time to find out. Below is how one day panned out.

16 November 2007: Not Logging On

Here’s one for you. Have a think about how many people you know who do not have an internet connection in their house.

15 November 2007: At the Tesco Self Service Till at White City this morning

Please place your item in the bagging area

14 November 2007: Whitehaven loses Ceefax

In the early hours of Wednesday 14 November, an entire town lost something no one else has lost. Teletext and Ceefax.

12 November 2007: Bods’s Blog gets what everyone else had decades ago - comments

And congratulations to Kirk who became the first ever person to post a comment on this blog.

11 November 2007: The 6th Anatomy of Search Results

Also known as “Andrew can’t think of anything to write about, so he cops out and just scours the search logs to see if there’s anything funny in there”.

9 November 2007: Movable Type 4: are your entry screen text boxes greyed out?

Two versions of this post. I’ll start with the executive summary. If you’ve moved to Movable Type 4 and find that when you get to edit an entry, the body and Extended fields are all greyed out, then I might have a cure for you!

9 November 2007: Ah, heat at last!

I won’t truly believe it until this evening when it will have been running for 24 hours, but this morning I woke up and the house wasn’t ice cold. Could this mean that the heating saga (and posts) are now over? Here’s hoping!

6 November 2007: iPlayer is streaming! And cable! And more!

I’m probably paying far more attention to the whole iPlayer saga than my sanity allows, but I do find some of the comments interesting.

5 November 2007: The Evil Andrew Bowden

Thanks to Google’s email alerts, the first known litterary Andrew Bowden has been found - by which I mean a character in a short story.

5 November 2007: Foie Gras? In the BBC canteen? You’ll be lucky!

There’s an interesting article about complaints in the BBC staff canteens, in the Sunday Telegraph.

4 November 2007: Still no warmth

So I’m looking at my stats in Google Analytics, and blow me, if it isn’t the case that the most popular pages on this here blog, are ones of me moaning about central heating.

2 November 2007: BBC Internet Blog

Many many many many years ago (well okay two and a half years ago), I wrote something on this blog about the whole work/blog thing and how it would be nice to be able to talk about work projects on a proper, BBC hosted work blog. A proper engagement between the BBC and its audience on all sorts of things. To discuss why certain things were done the way they were. To talk about how it all fits together. To say “Whoops!” when things went wrong.

2 November 2007: To heat or not to heat? That is the question!

I feel like I must have done something horribly bad to my central heating, because it clearly doesn’t like me this year.

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