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.
Ah, Monday morning and so little time to say anything. Nevertheless, Fernando Alonso’s Formula One Championship title (he’s the youngest ever Formula One champion) can’t go without note [Alonso clinches Formula One title], nor can Christian Klien’s superb qualifying performance [itv.com/f1 – Klien goes from zero to hero]. I preferred the later UK start time for the Grand Prix. 6pm seems like a much more sensible hour.
Well, it’s here, and I bought a copy this morning. I’ve mentioned the new-look Guardian newspaper a couple of times. It’s covered well in other places too. Visually, it’s impressive. It seems contemporary yet authoritative, which – I imagine – is what they wanted. The use of colour throughout a newspaper is great, and the double-page centre-spread picture (of the Northern Ireland riots) is a stunning use of those pages. I like the smaller G2 and was surprised to find Media Guardian is full-size and not the smaller one. I also think the feel is important. It’s weighty yet manageable.
I don’t buy a daily paper. If I did, The Guardian would be my paper of choice. I might even buy it more often in this format, since I can read it on a train or plane without smashing my fist into the face of the person sitting next to me. For a daily commute, however, there’s just too much. On my train this morning, I managed to read the front page and the first couple of G2S, and then I had to get off and walk to the office. When will I read the rest?
It might not be The Guardian’s market, but there must be space for something bigger than Metro, but with fewer column inches than The Guardian or Independent at a reduced price.
On Friday, I mentioned that The Guardian was getting its new look tomorrow. You can follow the paper’s editors as they plan and prepare tomorrow’s paper on The Editors’ Weblog, which has launched on the site.
In tomorrow’s sports section, I hope they cover Formula One in some detail. Red Bull Racing has announced it will take over the Minardi team from November. Minardi’s boss, Paul Stoddart, told BBC News,
Small privateer teams are probably phasing themselves out … it’s hard to imagine a truly privateer team can break into F1 again
I think that’s sad for the sport, really, but who really has got that much money?