Category Archives: media

Parma ham, ham, ham, ham, ham

I’ve started getting a lot of spam on this blog. All of it from Italy. What would Jamie Oliver would think?

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Big Brother – the truth

I’ll tell you the real reason Big Brother is such Big News. People just like saying “Shilpa Shetty”. I just said it to myself just now. Mmmm. Feels good.

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Humax PVR meets Mac

They’re stupidly named – nowt personal about a box that sits in the living room and which we fight over control of… but I finally gave in and bought a ‘Personal Video Recorder’. Torn between the Topfield and the Humax, … Continue reading

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Polar Excess

Is it just me, or is the animated film Polar Express a nasty piece of work? I watched it at the in-laws last year on DVD – I may have had too much goose and port but it made me … Continue reading

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A blogger blogs, always

Well, actually no. It strikes me that many bloggers feel they must Blog Come What May, even if that means that most of their posts run to this format: person A has done something cool; person B has noticed this … Continue reading

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