Still in Oslo and, clearly, not in the right part (or perhaps I should be here at a different time of year). I do love this city, and I’ve always stayed at great hotels here, including the Scandic Edderkoppen where I am now. If you’ve never been, get yourself across to Norway at some point – it’s a beautiful country. Shame I have to leave today (such a short trip), but check out this photo set for more great views of this city.
Frogner Park #2, originally uploaded by gisleh.
I have come to Oslo – again (or here and here) – on business. According to Flickr, there are 14,366 photos tagged Oslo in their system. This is one of my favourites, and these are the most interesting. I need to find something unusual to snap here!
According to the press, ‘BBC London 94.9FM has recorded its second-highest audience figures ever, with 561,000 tuning in every week, according to the latest RAJAR figures covering July to September’. As I have mentioned several times, I love BBC London right now. It was sad when Danny Baker left – his was one of the most innovative morning shows – but JoAnne Good and the team have been excellent. I am very worried about Jono Coleman, as I am not very keen on him as a broadcaster, but I guess we’ll just have to see what the rest of the year brings.
I love Anna’s writing. Captain Crisps and FagEndBoy are among my favourites:
It’s got to take the shine off your manhood, being publically admonished by a snack food wrapper.
Little Red Boat certainly has a way with words, she makes me laugh almost every day.
I just returned from a business trip to Italy and found that Italian bars, restaurants, and airports are now smoke-free. This is great news for those of us who don’t want to light up cigarettes as soon as we land. But, honestly, Italy doesn’t smell the same any more, and it’s kind of strange. Lovely, but strange.
Dear Palm
Please take note:
Nokia Announces Eseries for Business (Phone Scoop): E6 -: A slim (0.55 inches) messaging phone to compete with the Motorola Q. Features a landscape 24-bit QVGA display, QWERTY keyboard, and a miniSD slot. Supports quad-band GSM/EDGE and WCDMA 2100.
With no annoying sticky-up aerial to jab you when it’s in your pocket.
Thanks in advance
Me
Thanks to Sky One’s The Match 2, Philip Olivier’s Man of the Moment entry has been getting more and more comments this week. Feel free to have your say …
A few weeks ago, I upgraded to Movable Type 3.2 (Movable Type is the nice and easy software that allows me to maintain this site). Since that upgrade, I’ve noticed an increase in the number of attempted comments to the site – the vast majority of which are spam. I did, however, decide to approve one over the weekend on a post from 2004 from Rik, a sickened viewer, who seems to feel either that I have some relationship with Channel 4 or, perhaps, that I am some kind of comrade in the fight to rid ‘offensive and repulsive’ programming from our television screens. Neither is true, but I have no problem at all with the fact that he found a programme – which I never saw – to be so worthy of such comments.
What interests me is how somebody reading this site could so clearly think it is something other than a personal site. You see, it’s the small things that amuse me.
