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Inside Today

dafyd — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:28:28 +0000

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.

You know it’s gone to far when…

dafyd — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:16:36 +0000

…the Channel 4 News gets rickrolled:

Bizarre. See also this terribly earnest BBC News report…

Danny Boy

dafyd — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:52:09 +0000

For St Patrick’s Day, “Danny Boy”, performed by the Swedish Chef, Animal and Beaker. And why not?

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The Waldo Ultimatum

dafyd — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:11:04 +0000

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Heh – in America, they call Wally Waldo. Who knew?

Québec Update, Part the Second

dafyd — Sat, 19 May 2007 22:49:56 +0000

The Canadian High Commission updated its website today (or yesterday, but I’m pretty certain it was today). Previously, as I said on Thursday, there was no indication of how long one should wait for a work permit application, just a vague “most are dealt with in three weeks” kind of statistic.

Now, as well as changing the yellow background to white and tidying up a little (just a little – it’s now slightly easier to find what you’re looking for), they’ve added this little gem: “the average processing time for a fully completed, standard application is approximately 4 to 6 weeks.” So, double what it was four weeks ago, when I submitted my application.

Gits.

In the meantime, I have a little bit of 1990s Canadian nostalgia to keep me going, from the legen-wait for it-dary How I Met Your Mother:

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Non sequitur

dafyd — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:21:47 +0000

I’m in the middle of an exchange of emails with a “Microsoft EMEA Technical Support Clerk” (a tech support guy – of which more later), so here’s a Simpson’s video.

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*I think you need to click it to start it. Or maybe not. I don’t know how these computer things work.

Looks like they’re getting funny again. Bodes well for the movie.

Tom Hanks – 007?

dafyd — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:32:42 +0000

This is genius…

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Better than Timothy Dalton, at any rate.

Scary Mary

dafyd — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:16:42 +0000

It’s been around for a couple of months now, I know, but I’ve not…

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It’s the line “Someone’s up your chimney / And it isn’t Santa Claus” that scares me, in the stage musical at least…!

Mad dog

dafyd — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:33:09 +0000

Crumbs, looks like it’s meme day today…

Spotted this on both Jeremy and Lemurgirl‘s blogs:

Rip, Mix, Burn, Ma’am

dafyd — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:18:40 +0000

(Clicky for big picture – Private Eye issue 1135 – 24 June 2004)

You can’t make it out that well in the scans, but the bottom stroke of the last E of EYE reads POD… possibly my favourite joke in this issue – subtle, but clever.