The problem with living out in the sticks is the journey into town. Today, the train was so packed you couldn't breathe. The previous train had been cancelled. When I got to the session, a promo for some new toys called Kid Knex for Nickelodeon, I thought about the other people on that train, who were all heading for office jobs and could get their head stuck into some amin. I had to spend an hour shouting a lot in a jolly voice about some odd-looking plastic things. Never the same job twice. Except that the next job was a promo for The Office on NTL/Virgin. Back to Stephen Street (See friday). Then I had lunch with Paul, Brian Bowles and Ewan Bailey. Very pleasant, and we came up with a character, Herr Shaudenfraude, a German who takes pleasure in other people's misfortunes. Very funny, if we could think of a use for him. If anyone nicks this idea, this blog is proof that we thought of it first.
One of the results of moving house is that I'm watching more tele. I'm staying with my mother for a while, as the house I'm moving to needs doing up a bit. She has Sky, and I've watched more tele in a week than in the last year. I'm constantly surprised at how unsurprising it all is. The best thing on at the moment is Planet Earth, and it's also the best argument for HDTV I've yet seen. Digital TV so far has been a disppointment. No real improvement in programmes, and no discernable difference in picture quality. (Digital Radio is actually worse than FM). It looks to me that movies are going to be the main winners. High-def transfers of movies on high-def screens will be fantastic, but the picture quality on digital TV is mostly awful. I also wonder what will happen to all those analogue sets once the transmitters are turned off. Of course, unless I'm in a programme, I can't really take much of an interest...
Signing off. I need to eat. I've just been on the PC for several hours. I paid 400 quid today for a data recovery company to retrieve stuff from a USB flash memory I managed to break last week. Like a twat, I didn't actually back up the very documents I needed. Argh. I love and hate computers. They allow all this communication, and yet keep screwing up and they lose data so easily. There are libraries in the Middle East that are thousands of years old. In four thousand years, all that will be left of our computer age will be the rotting shells of PC cases and Apple notebooks.
BTW I've posted a review of the secret show from the New York Times. Check it out before they notice and ask me to remove it. Download new_york_times.doc
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