littleblip.co.uk is the weblog of Margaret Telfer.
She’s a radio producer at BBC Scotland who will be making a documentary about a day in the life of Scotland from the perspective of bloggers.
Visit her site and drop her a line if you think you might be interested in taking part.
Meet Brian Mung, genius.
Check out Myra Hyndley in Space, and Spider-Man in the films section.
MSN has shut down its chatrooms, allegedly because of concerns about child safety.
Oh, and in the US they’ll be replacing the chatrooms with unmoderated, credit card subscription-only chatrooms to be bundled with other products.
Hands up if you believe that child safety is their major concern?
Fans of the classic BBC comedy series Only Fools and Horses will be pleased to hear that a never-before-seen episode entitled ‘Licensed to Drill’ has been found by the Only Fools and Horses Appreciation Society.
They plan to show it at their annual convention this year.
While my ADSL remains uninstalled, and my internet service is reduced to a crushingly slow 56k dial-up, The Copydesk remains low on updates.
Over the past few days, I’ve felt like I’m living in a world not unlike the nightmare Se7en, created by Andrew Kevin Walker and David Fincher.
Particularly so, when I read about the horrible deaths of the Randall family in Miami and the evil, cowardly murder of little Toni-Ann Byfield in London.
For once, I thought I was reading a decent article by Bill Thompson when I happened upon his recent news item at the BBC about a patent ruling that could force a change in web browsing.
At first, it seemed that Bill had actually written an article where he wasn’t propounding crazy theories or peddling incorrect facts.
However, I was wrong.
The central point of the article – the patent in question – didn’t make an appearance until almost half of the way into his item, and only then did he begin to explain the potential impact of the ruling.
I’m still amazed that this guy gets paid to produce material like this.
I don’t have anything against him personally, but his writing style is poor, and his grammar could be better.
I promised myself I wouldn’t read any more of his drivel, but it’s difficult to avoid, given the amount of column space the BBC are happy to provide him with.
Oh – and Bill, a consensus is general.
