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Sick of the Flash
When will web designers wake up and realise that Flash is not the ideal way to present information on a website? Here I am, trying to research a story on James Bond when I come up against the website www.007.com I’m looking for information on the new Bond movie Quantum of Solace but all I [...]
What I think of blogs and citizen journalism
Just for the record, so you know where I’m coming from. The rise of citizen journalist and blogging is about as much a threat to mainstream journalism as backyard footy is to the Premier league, or amateur dramatics is to to the professional stage. Blogs are a great place for some people to learn the [...]
Hillary Clinton and the Holy Grail
Who first mentioned the link between Hillary Clinton’s ailing campaign for the Democrat presidential nomination and the scene with the Black Knight from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail? This Monday the ABC’s Tony Eastley introduced a piece “Clinton’s hopes of nomination grim” (Monday 12 May 2008) on the AM program with reference [...]
Indiana Jones and the lost DVD
The sales will prove me wrong but I’m puzzled as to why anyone would buy the DVD boxed set of the last three Indiana Jones movies. The fourth film in the trilogy will hit cinema screens witin days, which means the fourth DVD will hit stores a few months later. So why spend up to [...]
The Bond movie drivers are at it again
Only days after James Bond’s famous Aston Martin DBS was recovered from an unscheduled plunge in an Italian lake, another crash on the latest 007 movie set is being reported. The AFP agency says in “No solace for Bond stuntmen after second crash” (Wednesday 23 April 2008) that two stunt men are injured – one [...]