I really can't tell if this is planned, or due to my arsiness, but Sky appear to have stopped playing the minutes-long Phill Jupitus voiceover espousing how great the next Star Wars movie they're showing will be. They're now playing a 20-30 second voiceover by a regular Sky continuity person reminding you a Star Wars […]
Sent to Sky and Phill Jupitus a couple of minutes ago: To: phill.6music@bbc.co.uk, skydigital@bskyb.com Hi Phill / Sky, I'd like to complain about the ridiculous voice overs being used during the credits of movies on Sky Movies. I understand you want to promote the showing of all six Star Wars movies on the Sky movie […]
Coupla podcast-tastic things happening, both of which have sweary bits. Woo. First, myself and some of the LugRadio IRC/forum regulars started up hashlugradio , to discuss topics brought up in episodes of LugRadio, but also brought up by the community members. We cranked out a first test episode and released it last week — it's […]
Just sifting through some tech stories on the BBC News site this morning, and chatting about it to folk on IRC, there are some reporting discrepancies that really wound me up. Hey, what's new; I love railing on the BBC for minor screw-ups, but for BBC News to get things wrong like this doesn't bode […]
Well, looks like one of ThinkGeek's excellent 2003 April Fools — the George Foreman USB iGrill — is still wreaking havoc amongst the gadget blogging community. Not only did Wired's Gear Factor ( cached copy ) pick up this from mobilemag.com ( cached copy ) as though new — Wired, newsflash, it's over three years […]
Coke Zero is here, and those who know me know I love anything Coca-Cola related. So a few weeks ago, just after it launched here in the UK, I bought a 500ml bottle of Coke Zero to try, along with a bottle of regular Coke, and left them both overnight in the fridge to chill […]
What's your cell phone's ringtone? What made you pick it? Something that really winds me up is mobile ringtones. Aside from some dalliances with R2-D2 noises when I received text messages, and Basement Jaxx's Good Luck when taking calls, I've stuck to a simple "ring ring" ringtone wherever possible. The only problem is that Nokia […]
I had intended to keep dumping stuff on Vox over the LugRadio Live weekend, but combinations of ninja duties, catching up with people and copious drinking left me completely incapable of configuring my Nokia N70 to email stuff to Vox. Oops. [ This is a post from vox , a long gone blogging platform. My […]
It's LugRadio Live time again! Some ScotLUG types and myself are embarking on a road trip tomorrow from Glasgow to Wolverhampton to join in the fun, meet old friends, make new ones, and hopefully ask Mark Shuttleworth some strange questions (again). I'm going to try and blog more about the event here on Vox to […]