2006 — Day 29 - Quite Interesting
I doubt that Michael Grade's departure from the Beeb will affect their success (or otherwise) with their licence fee haggling but, as long as they
continue to let Stephen Fry and his amusingly erudite friends witter away on "QI" as they did a couple of hours ago1 I shall happily
continue to cough up my however-few-pence it actually
costs per day. I do wish they could get their programmes to run on/to time, however.
Mildly troubling thought: I picked up another cheap Freeview box in Asda a couple of days ago to park alongside the Media PC upstairs, and leave
tuned to BBC 6music. This is a TV, right? So how come I didn't get the interrogation about name and address for the licence heavies?
Today's genial postie brings me an item that perfectly illustrates what I meant when I bemoaned my lack of visual flair. I doubt I could ever design as effective an image as the artwork for The Devil wears Prada, let alone the strap line! ("Hell on Heels" — what's not to love?) But I can still appreciate a class act when I see one. Not that the actual film was much to write home about, or even worth a vague diary entry. Meanwhile, non-snail Hotmail brought me a nice note from young Sam Clinton in distant Vienna. Now there's a name from the past.
A momentary lapse of excitement
After bumping into the massed ranks of the Kessells in the Aldi carpark, I picked up the last copy of the January 2007 issue of Computer Shopper (spurning the three unsold copies of the December issue) 'cos Jan 2007 promises a freebie QuarkXPress 5. Many a slip, however, between free CDROM and successful installation of bits thereon. As shown by the Forum trouble reports that have already been posted, there's a registration hurdle that people (self included) are stumbling over. So, off with an interrogatory email to that nice Mr Felix Dennis' magazine. Watch this non-DTP space.