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CordenBleugh

Are you using the shiny new Safari 5? Do you want to remove all traces of James Corden from your interwebs? I can help.

Install the CordenBleugh Safari Extension (right-click and download), and, almost magically, your browsing will be no longer blighted. Can’t promise the same for this Saturday’s Doctor Who, though. Sorry.

Not sure how to [...]

Instablog

Look! I’m back! Sort of – this is very much a holding blog until I get everything sorted out on my super-shiny, all-bells-and-whistles, systematic, hydromatic new site.

Many apologies for my sustained absence – believe me, I wish it hadn’t been so long. Anyhoo, I have returned, with a temporary blog here to hold my pearls [...]

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I was going to post on Twitter that Twitter is currently down. It took me at least three attempts to realise the flaw in my plan…

Should be blogging more, but I’ve been awfully busy with work (yes, proper work, here) and haven’t really felt like it. More anon, though, I promise.

Some say…

…his face is permanently blurred to protect his identity.

Google Maps launched its Streetview service in the UK yesterday, and some intrepid sightseers have already found the Stig at the BBC’s White City offices. Fun.

Also Nottingham High School, on a rare “not rainy” day:

Oh, and Wally on Putney High Street:

Inside Today

As a long-time Radio 4 listener, it’s fascinating to get a glimpse behind the scenes of the Today programme…

One might argue that a viral video stops being viral when the programme it is promoting has to promote the video itself… Still, fun though.

Flightless?

This BBC headline confused me for a few moments:

I didn’t think turkeys were flightless (wild, they’re not), so why the plane? Images of Chicken Run came to mind…

Bad bit of journalese there, I think. Not a great idea to associate plasticine poultry with a plane crash, however unintentionally.

Update: The BBC has updated the title to [...]

Eaten alive

Eaten alive, originally uploaded by dafyd.

This poor Lego chap appears to have become something’s lunch – my bet is on the mice that seem to have moved in…

Starting for 10

Tonight is the final of series 15 of University Challenge, as Corpus Christi, Oxford, take on Manchester. Both teams have done phenomenally well in all of their previous games, so tonight promises to be a tough game.

I’m tipping Manchester to win. I know a lot has been written about about Corpus Christi’s captain, Gail Trimble, [...]

What do you do..?

A quick snippet of a track from the brilliant Avenue Q, which describes pretty well how I feel about job hunting at the moment…

On a related note, the West End production of Avenue Q closes at the end of March. If you haven’t seen it, go now. If you have seen it, go again – [...]

Moi j’aime le music hall

It’s been a long time since I’ve done one of these, but I really don’t feel like posting anything else at the moment.

Rules: 1. Put your iPod, iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle. 2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer, hit skip if you get [...]