Also, now that the BBC has its embeddable media player working, any chance of embedding full iPlayer programmes on external sites? Can’t be long…
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Britain From Above
August 10, 2008 by dafyd
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Calling The Doctor
June 28, 2008 by dafyd
According to this week’s Doctor Who, the Doctor’s phone number is 07700 900 461.
Alas, “The number you have called has not been recognized”. BBC, you disappoint me. Why feature the number so prominently (full screen, at least three times) if it doesn’t do anything? Would it really have been that difficult to put a recording of David Tennant at the end of the phone?
Somehow, I think next week it may prove important…
Update: Seems the number falls within the range of numbers reserved by Ofcom “for drama purposes”. Pity.
Still can’t work out what happened last night. I have a vague feeling that the idea of them being “one second in the future” will be important, as will the Doctor’s spare hand. And I wager John Simm (The Master) may make a return… after all, we’ve seen everyone else.
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Wo ist Jones?
May 21, 2008 by dafyd
Quick update: four exams down, one to go.
That one is in nine days time.
Tonight: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, midnight screening at the Gala, Durham.
More later…
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Meh
May 14, 2008 by dafyd
Life on Mars is one of my favourite television series Of All Time Ever. This disturbs me a little… but I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt. It could be awesome, it could be rubbish. I’ll be watching.
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Brunsh
May 3, 2008 by dafyd
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WALL-E: You know, for kids
May 1, 2008 by dafyd
One of the films I’m most looking forward to this summer is WALL-E. Sure, Iron Man looks awesome, Speed Racer looks like, well, speed, and The Dark Knight will be pretty much unmissable. But WALL-E is just, well, you’ll see:
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If you’re reading this in a feedreader, or in Facebook or the like, you’ll have to click through to the actual post. Make sure you do, though – it’s awesome.
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Quite
April 21, 2008 by dafyd
[via FSJ]
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Distracted
April 18, 2008 by dafyd
So, no real bloggy-news for quite a while. Sorry about that. Well, actually, no, I’m not.
It’s just coming to the end of the Easter vacation. Term restarts on Monday; I’m heading up to Durham on Sunday. My Finals start in just under three weeks’ time. I have three essays due by the end of next week, all in various degrees of completion (one on Proust is slowly killing me). Yes, I should be essay-writing now, yet for some reason I’m blogging. Go me. During this vacation, my procastinatory (definitely a word) exercises have reached heights previously unimaginable.
Anyway, that’s all going on. I’m fairly confident about most of my Finals – my marks so far for my French modules are fairly good and I’m well on track for a 2:1. Arabic, though, worries me, although I’ve pretty much come to the point where nothing I can do is going to change it. Que sera, sera, I think.
And for the last couple of months I’ve been rather distracted, anyway, by something. Or someone. *grin*
More news eventually, promise…
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You know it’s gone to far when…
April 11, 2008 by dafyd
…the Channel 4 News gets rickrolled:
Bizarre. See also this terribly earnest BBC News report…
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Proust
April 8, 2008 by dafyd
Don’t get me wrong: Marcel Proust was a genius. His works are terribly important in the context of literary history. But what the Dickens is he on about here..?
But, when nothing of an old past endures, after the death of the people, after the destruction of the things, alone, more frail but more alive, more immaterial, more persistent, more faithful, smell and taste remain for a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, on top of the remains of everything else, bearing unfaltering, on their almost impalpable droplet, the immense edifice of memory.
To be fair, once you work out what he’s talking about, it’s quite a beautiful sentiment about the power of taste and smell to bring back long-forgotten memories. But seriously: 17 commas in 65 words? That’s overkill. “Their almost impalpable droplet”? Huh?
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