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[25 Jun 2009 | No Comment | 15 views]

I was looking on the BBC iPlayer yesterday to see what I missed and discovered that BBC 4 is showing The Chaser’s War on Everything.  TCWOE is a ABC (Australia Broadcasting Corporation) comedy show which has a set of satirical comedians discussing and performing odd stunts / public interactions in a cross between Bremner Bird and Fortune and the Daily show with Jon Stewart (hard to describe what the Chaser is!)
I was lucky enough to hear about The Chaser the first time round and view it on ITunes where the …

Musings »

[13 Jun 2009 | No Comment | 12 views]

I haven’t posted much lately so this post is a catch up to mention several things that have caught my attention lately.
Facebook introduces usernames
Facebook have now introduced usernames.  This doesn’t make a huge difference to the site itself but does mean that if you want to link people to your page you now can have an easy permalink such as www.facebook.com/CharlesBarsley.  It will be interesting to see how this develops over the next few months and if the site evolves more.  Get your  username here http://www.facebook.com/username/
TV Licencing
June is going to …

Television »

[24 Mar 2009 | No Comment | 25 views]

The BBC have released more details of the new series of the Apprentice which starts tomorrow (25th March 2009) at 9pm on BBC1 (or online with the BBC iPlayer).
Here’s the story so far…
One Apprentice quits
The new series of the Apprentice is a man down before filming even begun.  The unnamed man took the decision to quit late into the night before filming begun.   This meant that there was no time to find a replacement and the “boys” team will start with only seven team members to the girls eight. Sir …