September 2009
30 posts
Water Water Water Water load of bollix...
A couple of years ago we were having to watch mass hysteria in London.
It was about water. Apparently we needed to save it or the world would end. We were given lots of advice about how to save it. Yeah, there’s the usual about not leaving a hose-pipe emptying non-stop into a garden – and that kind of makes sense – but the mad people have taken it further than that.
We must reduce the water in...
Woostar
(Cue: Theme to ‘Our Tune’ or something equally tear-jerking) Years ago my big white hairy cat who thought he was a dog or a human made me a mad wizard in other people’s eyes.
Before he found me, I had thought cats were just cats and had been surrounded by them most of my life. At the time he decided to walk into my life I already had two ordinary cats. They were your standard female...
Where do all the people go?
The unusual thing of two little 10 year old girls from Soham disappearing at the same time, or the little 3 year old girl who disappeared after being neglected by her parents whilst holidaying in Portugal always rockets the ‘missing persons’ thing into the public eye.
But, we probably need to look at this a little bit closer. Of the ones that are reported, these hit a figure of around 150,000...
Your Anorak Nation needs you!
I’ve been on the internet for a couple of decades in one way or another, from the days of text only newsgroups, early email and mailing lists. Across that time I’ve contributed to many different discussions, camping on ‘radio’ as the one I’ve joined in with the most passionately.
As the internet has changed, so too has the platform hosting the ‘radio’...
“Aren’t there serious Health and Safety issues that are not being addressed...”
– Christopher England (hot hot) just asked that!
“Derren Brown. Oi, Derren Brown. You bastard. You utter bastard.
I watched...”
– Christopher England just finally stood up to say that!
Goodbye versus Airbrushing Out Of History
When Radio 1’s Jo Whiley and Edith Bowman were axed from daytime Radio 1, the announcement came some month or so before they went. They were allowed to talk about their pending leaving. Their final shows were a celebration of their years presenting in their timeslots and a goodbye. There was closure.
Why doesn’t this happen in the commercial sector? When a presenter is axed he/she is...
“These adverts on TV for Dreams, the bed shop. Now, some of them show the beds...”
– Christopher England just mused that!
What next for Radio Jackie?
I was speed reading somewhere else and noticed that somebody had put into the public domain that Radio Jackie was suffering from major operating losses, and is currently owing nearly three quarters of a million Earth Pounds, propped up solely by its main owner funnelling his money across to pay for things.
How long can this last, and what next for Radio Jackie? Will it mean having to sell out...
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO BE HAPPY →
Are you getting LIFE right?
Some very thought provoking pages written by the broadcasting legend that is Tommy Boyd. Have a look, and see what you THINK.
The big fight: 'Radio Caroline' versus PRS
In the blue corner you have an annoyingly rich unforgiving tax collector gifted by laws that mean they can autonomously demand money from people and not necessarily get it back to those who really deserve it.
In the red corner you have a nearly broke bloke and his mates playing old rock records to themselves and a few others via the internet and satellite telly.
I don’t know who activated...
Ohh, Ahh, Slurp, buzz buzz
I hate socialising. I hate people. But, my girlfriend and I went out with friends the other night to an award ceremony (I didn’t win again, damn it). We were running late, so they met us at ours. Well, I wasn’t running late, I’m a man. It was all her fault, see? Ok, so maybe it’s partially my fault, as she normally spends her life naked and chained to the bed (except when she’s at the kitchen...
Nobody's actually listening to the world
Christopher: Is it me, or is the world raving mad?
The World: Whoa? Hang on a minute!
Christopher: I mean, right, all those years of people being told taking vitamin supplements was good for you.
The World: What's this got to do with you accusing me of being mad?
Christopher: Then it turns out that not only are vitamin supplements not good for you, but they actually shorten your life.
The World: Look, I'm the World, I never said anything about bloody vitamins. I'm just the World.
Christopher: And all this climate change rubbish and recycling crap and global warming we are being forced to believe now.
The World: "Global", as in me, the World?
Christopher: No doubt in 50 years time they'll finally admit that human intervention neither contributed to nor stopped global warming.
The World: Ah, now if they'd have bothered asking me, I could have put them right about what's really going on.
Christopher: It's all so confusing.
The World: But nobody listens to me.
Christopher: I wonder what the World would have to say about all this.
The World: It's like they can't hear me.
Christopher: It's a shame the World can't speak.
“If they are closing down all the official analogue radio transmissions by the...”
– Christopher England just asked that.
How the cyber-bully mutated as he squirmed
A while ago I wrote a piece about how a lone cyber-bully had set-up a website/blog from which (under a cloak of anonymity of course) he could write quite nasty personal attacks upon people he disagreed with when they had written on the subject of radio. My original article is here.
In order for him to internally rationalise that he was actually doing no harm and was justified in all he was...
Push To Talk - I want to push it now, please, NOW!
In the dark and distant days of the beginning of digital mobile telephony, I remember Orange had introduced a new phone that included the ability to send and receive SMS (text) messages. It also had a number of tunes you could pick instead of the standard ring tones, including the now famous Nokia Tune.
As part of a press junket, I remember being on a train heading to an open day for journos...
The inequality of being an English White
We are told we are equal, and we must fight to stop discrimination and to pretend that we are not all different.
I actually find ‘difference spotting’ a difficulty until I am reminded of my own differences. Unfortunately I am reminded all too often.
When events are organised to highlight the achievements of just one particular ethnic group, I am reminded that I am different and am ‘outside’...
August 2009
30 posts
