Archive for September, 2008
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Cambridge Film Festival: final weekend
It’s the final weekend of the Cambridge Film Festival and while we’re all tired we’re pretty happy because it has been a great success. We’ll be finishing off with BRIDESHEAD REVISITED tonight, and we’ve got Werner Herzog’s ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD tomorrow. But I’m most excited about Peter Greenaway’s NIGHTWATCHING, not just [...]
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
A link to eternity
[You can read this on the BBC News website - sorry it's late being posted here. But one day I'll be late too..]
While Google is as secretive about its internal processes and systems as Apple is about product development, every now and then senior people post articles on the official Google blog and offer their [...]
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Saturday, September 20th, 2008
Cambridge Film Festival
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Originally uploaded by Cambridge Film Festival.
I’ve been a bit distracted by the Cambridge Film Festival, which runs until the 28th September….
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
The value of Chrome…
I’m writing a piece for Ariel, the BBC’s in-house newspaper, about Google Chrome, so I did some searching and was surprised just how many entries about the browser Google managed to find and how many of them were about the browser rather than the metal: if you search for ‘chrome’ on Google then the top [...]
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
A soggy future for paper?
[As ever you can read this on the BBC Website too. And thanks to NationalExpressEastCoast for their crowded train and late running service, which provided the inspiration...]
The UK launch of the Sony Reader has sparked another round of frenzied speculation over the future of the printed book in a world of screens, networks and digital [...]
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
Heading North
I’m in Newcastle for the weekend to do some plotting with the fine people at Tyneside Cinema and to see Nicolas Roeg introduce his new film, Puffball. Unfortunately getting here was more of an adventure than it usually is thanks to the heavy rain, and the train was stuck outside Darlington for about an hour. [...]
