2011 — 12 November: Saturday
Well, this is different. I thought it was quiet. There's a thick mist out there at the moment. But there's also a fresh cuppa on hand and the ineffable music played by Brian Matthew. So is this my excuse to use the delicious word "adumbration"?1
Lily Tomlin...
... (whom I adore) had a 1985 show called "The search for signs of intelligent life in the universe". Any such signs are sure as hell not to be found in the disgustingly rapacious Hollywood thinking revealed here:
Warner has bigger ambitions for Flixster. In the coming months, Flixster will start offering a service called Disc to Digital that will allow people to pay a small fee per disc to convert their existing DVD collections into digital copies. The idea is to train consumers to manage their movie libraries online, much the way they do digital music or photos.
Lyrical indicators
I keep an eye, from time to time, on the work of Jonathan Corum (who is in search of the perfect Eggs Benedict, and whose design flair provided me with the starting point for molehole's current visual appearance). Plus, many many years ago, I recall hearing a "Light Programme" DJ asserting that more songs had been written about 'love' than anything else. Plus, I like words and infotaining graphics. So this (unpublished) piece ticked all the right boxes. (Link.)
I keep much less of an eye on digital terrestrial TV (Freeview) and the FreeviewHD heading our way. I had therefore missed the highlighted phrase:
Dozens of new television channels are coming to Freeview this month, thanks to clever use of the MHEG standard and the connectivity already built into every Freeview HD box.
The channels are already appearing on Freeview boxes — at 110, 111 and 120 in the EPG — but rather than broadcasting video streams those channels contain only MHEG applications. Come the end of
September those applications will allow viewers to select from dozens of specialist channels accessed over the internet connection mandated by the Freeview HD standard.
The idea is to bring streaming video to every Freeview HD box in the country, and charge for it too.
TANSTAFTV!
The omens...
... are currently looking good for a walk tomorrow, weather-wise. The barometer is (as it were) sky high. I could use the fresh air, too. And the sausages will make a grand sandwich :-)