Media I’m currently enjoying

The BBC has just started making its internal staff magazine, Ariel, available to anyone who wants it – at least the web version. It basically reports on what’s happening with the BBC – although the only page most people read is the letters page.

 

Red Dwarf Review

OK so after half a dozen or so blog posts on the rebirth of the boys from the Dwarf, of photos, information and some would say obsession – it’s finally been and gone. You may not have bothered wondering why I didn’t post a review straight away, after all I haven’t exactly posted much of anything recently. But the reason for the delay isn’t because of my generally inability to [...]

 

Screaming fits of blog love

I’m a big fan of the BBC blogging platform – well not the platform itself as they use Movable Type BUT of the content on the blogs themselves.

 

Rest in Peace HD-DVD

I thought it worth throwing up an adapted version of the HD-DVD v Blu-Ray photo taken in Woolworths St Helier after the news that HD-DVD is finally dead.

 

HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray

HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray Originally uploaded by Up Your Ego I haven’t gone high-def yet – I brought a beautiful television about three years ago for several hundred pounds and have no intention of getting rid of it until it dies. Plus I watch most of my programmes on demand, either through Sky+, through one of the increasing number of web based streaming services or through DVDs ripped to my iPod. [...]

 

Ripping my DVDs

Still no baby I have hundreds of CDs sitting in a cupboard in my living room that are 1) never played, 2) never looked at and 3) collecting huge amounts of dust. But I have no intention of selling or giving them away. Why? Because I have every one of them on an external hard drive attached to my computer – I’ve ripped the lot of them and still continue [...]