2013 — 26 September: Thursday

For some reason, this depressing1 table doesn't surprise me:

UK broadband

Time for my second cuppa, since I'm now about as wide-awake as a night of atrocious sleep is likely to permit today.

Nyaah, nyaah! Told you so!

In happier news, BBC 6Music now has the largest number of listeners of the four stations only available on digital platforms. Take that, Mr Fizzy Drinks overpaid BBC marketing genius who tried to close it down! (Link.)

When my energy supplier emails me with advance notice of next week's offer of some form of consumption-checking toolkit and has the courtesy to add...

If you wouldn't mind, please don't reply to this email as the mailbox
is unmonitored, so we can't respond.

... how could I possibly take offence?

Having just heard...

... the beautifully Django Reinhardt-ish "Bistro Fada" played by Stephane Wrembel from the soundtrack of Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris" it was the work of mere moments to persuade Amazon's MP3 download into disgorging...

Stephane Wrembel MP3s

... after first asking Mr IMDB for more details of the music in that film (which, I shamefully confess, I have yet to have made time for) including the all-important correct spelling of the artist's name.

I've been finding...

... a great deal to enjoy (and re-enjoy) during the BBC's current "Sound of Cinema" season. Until it was forcibly brought to my attention less than half an hour ago, for example, I'd never before (in 36 years!) considered just quite how complex some of John Williams' score for the original 1977 "Star Wars" actually is. Another double CD Auto-Ripped MP3 download of a recently-remastered version of that score with the LSO is further extending my appreciation right now while I vaguely think about an evening meal. It is, after all, 18:47 already.

  

Footnote

1  UK guvmints only really get excited about nuclear weapons technology, since they mistakenly believe that it allows them to play with the Big Boys.