Thursday, May 13, 2004

For those out there that know some of the goings-on here at the moment you'll be pleased to know the person I know who was looking for a new house to rent has now found one and she will be moving in next week. I'm so happy for her and it's about time she had some happiness in her life.

Another friend of mine got the dreaded letter from an American TV company for sharing an episode of Enterprise. I sat here wondering what they make from us anyway?

All but the latest series have been on BBC2 which doesn't have adverts. Very few people actually bother watching the adverts on ITV or Channel 4 in the UK because we have 2 other channels which we know have zero adverts so when the first set of adverts kick in you just simply go down 2 or 3 channels for four minutes of something other than the same adverts that get repeated a million times a day. So in view of this and considering it's legal to record TV programmes in the UK I wonder what exactly they lose from this?

Now if it was the series 24 I could understand Sky suing on behalf the TV companies because BBC2 was too cheap and tight to buy one of the best series on TV at this current time. If I didn't have Sky I would have actually got it just for this one series.

Anyway, back to my point :-)

Research has shown that the Internet and more importantly broadband has had a huge impact regarding the viewing of adverts. I have to agree because I'm sat here typing this out as each set of adverts come on. For 4 minutes I'm listening to the news on BBC news 24 and then switch back. Sometimes I miss the first few seconds but who cares :)

Monday, May 10, 2004

Sorry about the lack of updates recently. Working last week in the Video shop has really caused me huge problems and a lot of backlogs.

My Torbay Fishing news page has been updated as well as This weekends tide times.

I have around 200 emails to work through with most needing updates to web sites so that's all for now.

Sod's law is amazing isn't it?. Last week was my busiest week for the last 3 years :(

I'm still not smoking so its all good.