Not even a near miss

The Horror Channel zooming in on 4x3 programmes to create a screen-filling, faux 16x9 picture might look like a good idea on paper but it doesn’t work in practice. But a backward step to something that’s better is not something the TV industry can cope with.

Where’s the ALF when you need them?

It took me a while to track down the reference – mainly because Brief Candle by Robert Arion was published back in 1996 – but he created an organization called the Air Liberation Front, whose motto was “Liberating trapped air, wherever it may be found”. Just the people to let down the tyres of all the vehicles which brought ecoyobs to London to disrupt life there!

Really, really impressive

I watched an episode of Charlie’s Angels the other night and I was struck by the crisp quality of the pictures. Whoever developed the process for digitizing these ancient programmes deserves a Nobel Prize for scientific genius.

Damned either way

The ecobrats who are larking about in London claim to be worried that they won’t live long enough to have children. But if they get their way and ban all transport and industry, the world won’t be able to support the present population. Which means that the ecobrats will starve to death and they still won’t have any kids.

What DID he mean?

I’ve just finished reading The Remorseless Day and I still don’t believe that Inspector Morse was a dedicated The Archers fan. It has to be some sort of euphemism. But what on Earth did Colin Dexter have in mind? Beats me.

Tricky customers

Why are tower PCs preferable to desktops? My expert had to work out how to get the case off an old desktop to change the motherboard battery. Which turned out to be hidden in the most inaccessible corner available, under the drive cage. Just whipping the side off a tower is so much easier and more obvious.

A matter of perception

Maybe vehicles just sound louder when it’s wet but when I ventured out into the rain, more cars than usual seemed to be blasting through the nearby village at reckless speed.