The BBC rules!

Stephen Fry blogs, and his entries are as good as can be expected. Also, in one of the entries, he admits to touring the US in order to make a documentary for the BBC where he visits every state in the union, does somewhat bizarre things there, and then humorously comments upon them. Remember when Michael Palin travelled down one meridian and did roughly the same, in the nineties or when it was? Like that, only more of it, and with more Stephen Fry.-

It is something one can slowly, savouringly look forward to seeing; YouTube and whatever-linking-site-of-the-moment will make sure I get it long before cumbersome Vox here in Germany buys it and dubs it; then I will watch it again, faithfully, and diss the quality of the dub, as I do with 'Supernatural'.

In any case, apart from very few exceptions, Brit TV rules, and the good old Beeb seems to be making to most interesting programmes on the planet today -- even 'Rome' was a collaboration between them and HBO in America. To say nothing of 'Doctor Who' or 'Torchwood'.

And then there were those computer animated dinosaurs in the nineties, and Michael Palin travelling down his meridian, and OMG most of the works of Douglas Adams. The word 'Milliways' was first uttered on BBC radio!! Also, they read out parts of that book about Nureyev on radio, only slightly marred by the fact they pronounced 'Champs Elysées' as 'Shang Silly Say'.

We have at present one good home-brewed TV series in Germany: 'Post Mortem' AKA 'CSI Cologne', about eight or ten episodes a year; not quite as good as the original CSI Las Vegas, but definitely winning against the silly 'cool' red-head and his soap opera plot lines of CSI Miami.

One!!

I am envious of the Brits.-

Another facetious open letter

Dear IT-goons at work,

Russian emails? DO NOT WANT!! They are all spam, and my Russian, what there is of it, is basic. I can't eve fucking read what they're trying to sell to me.

Banning all email with cyrillic charcter set should be bloody easy, on a big professional Exchange server, should it not? However, you external IT goons alternatingly say that a) there is no such possibility and b) there are still some users, in other companies that you also goon in all things IT (there are more of those unfortunate victims??) that wish to receive email in Russian.

Contradictory.

I am not quite convinced you have got rid of the Byzantine generals yet, either. You annoy me.-

No love,
Maru