Moving
Moving to Posterous for now. Might come back. Haven’t decided yet.
RIP Bobby Robson
Posterous
Just trying this Posterous malarkey out. No idea how to work it.
Penguin creates more knockout covers for its forthcoming additions to the Great Ideas series.
Frost/Nixon
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Compelling.
Valkyrie
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As long as you forget the ‘based on a true story’, an excellent thriller.
Glorious.
In The Loop
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Misses out on the final star because it’s just not quite as good as its progenitor, the excellent BBC TV series The Thick Of It. The main reason is because there’s too much at stake - part of what made The Thick Of It great was the fact that politicians would tie themselves in knots attempting to escape from their own failed machinations surrounding ridiculous policies like pet passports. In The Loop takes as its subject matter the Iraq war, a silent, unnamed yet constantly lurking presence. While this arguably makes it better satire, it lacks the pathetic edge The Thick Of It was so good at.
Special mention to Peter Capaldi who keeps delivering as Malcolm Tucker, one of the most diabolical, machiavellian personalities to ever grace the big screen. He is what the devil would be if the devil cared about British politics.
MobileMe
Just signed up for Apple’s online services. Normally £59.99 a year but you get a 60-day free trial. It appeals to me because it syncs all my contacts, bookmarks and calendar information from my Mac to my iPhone and vice versa. It also throws in a new Mail account, 20GB of online storage including a domain name, and a Find My iPhone feature which pinpoints your handset’s location if it gets lost.
Feedback to Apple: I don’t need all the extraneous stuff. Do a pared down version of MobileMe which gives you the syncing, a backup service and the Find My iPhone feature. Sell it for £10 a year. You would sell a subscription with every iPhone, guaranteed. I won’t be paying nigh on £60 to continue my subscription - it’s just not compelling enough.
Moon fact: As Buzz Aldrin joined Neil Armstrong on the moon, he had to make sure not to lock the Eagle’s door as there was no outer handle.
Awful Library Books
