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The Apprentice 26th March : Fishy Customers and Sugar's Firing Squad 2008-03-26 18:01:00 Testicle Face Is Back.Millionaire Sir Alan Sugar
(or, as The Guardian's Emily Bell calls him, surallen) is once again in his 2001-style boardroom with his Musketeers Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford.Sixteen candidates, with a lexicon of cliches and the ability to create nausea when they speak.Raef Bjayal tells us "The spoken word is my tool", although "tool" could be applied to several constestants, including David Cameron smarm-a-like Nicholas de Lacy-Brown, an artist, barrister and grinning fool.From delacybrown.com: And so to Nicholas’ latest exhibition, 'Sebastian’s Arrows': Story of an Artist as a Young Man’, a personal tour of themes such as betrayal, warfare and heartbreak, and where undoubtedly the most relevant piece is ‘Nicholas in the Renaissance’, which deals with hi Read more:Apprentice
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March 26th: News from my bookmarks 2008-03-26 17:42:00 Theyworkforyou.com's Free Our Bills Campaign.Digital Inspiration tells you how to fix a wet iPhone or mobile.Press Gazette: Muslim Girl goes digital for UK.Google Lanches Document Freedom Day: Intended To Educate About Freedom From Vendor Lock-In. Read more:March
Adobe InDesign: Day Two Of Magazine Production 2008-03-26 17:06:00 Today we continued with Adobe
InDesign:We layed out a single and double page spread, as well as some practice in subbing.Learnt importing text and picture effects.Adobe Photoshop (to industry standard) tommorow (Thurs 27th March).InDesign is like all technology-you need to revisit it so it sinks in. Fun program Read more:Magazine
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Magazine Production: Day One 2008-03-25 14:12:00 This afternoon the Print Pathway began their MagazineProduction
module.We learnt the basics of InDesign and designed magazine front covers.Mine was "Mother Earth" and had an environmental theme.History of Design:Our tutor Malvin has been an artist and Deputy Art Editor.He explained that newspaper design and magazine design are very different.Pagemaker, developed in 1985 by Aldus Corporation, was the first design program.Quark Express became the industry standard in 1986.In 1999 InDesign was released and after a few years became the norm (dread phrase).For £1000, InDesign comes with a licence and Acrobat, Illustrator and Photoshop. £1000 is the cost of Quark Express alone.I've also got a booklet explaining typefaces and giving more info on Indesign CS3. Read more:Day One
Traffic Problems 2008-03-25 13:59:00 Seems to be MUCH lower traffic than normal today.
EMAP: Kieran Long, editor of Architect's Journal 2008-03-25 13:57:00 To EMAP in Mornington Crescent where Kieran Long gave a talk in Boardroom 2 on the magazine he edits- The Architect
's Journal
:The AJ is aimed only at professionals and has 12,000 readers.It started as a very technical magazine and has 40 issues per year.Hard news in the front, and 14 pages of features.There is also a letters page and a separate comments section.Designed using Adobe InDesign, the magazine has a good red-black colour contrast, Although it usually costs £4, we recieved copies of the 6th March issue free.I would be interested in an internship at the AJ, and will apply ASAP. I like the imaginative range of articles on a niche subject, and the quality of design is impressive.
Power Of Messageboards: "The Claw" is caught by Web 2.0 2008-03-29 10:24:00 1991 skyline gt-r stolen!Shows how useful messageboards are as constant source of news by posters, and many sources so reports coming in from all over the world. More sources= more people to interview, so check messageboards.Facebook is also key to catching the thief. Web 2.0 bust.* Shaun Ironside (Envison)'s 1991 Nissan Skyline GT-R was stolen on Wednesday 26th March.* Ironside (good surname for the guy to have) posts on aboutthe car* Another forum member (JAYMEZ) spots the car and calls the police. He also takes pictures and uploads them to the forum (Lower down page one)*Other forum members see the car in Westhills.* The thief, Jamie Jacobson, is found on Facebook*His profile, now set to private, includes his name and address.*Forum members visit address. Car is driven away but later
My birthday today 2008-03-28 20:54:00 It is my birthday today.I am 22.Things I would like:Tfl to agree to RMT and TSSA demands so tube strike due first day of my Easter placement is settled.A copy of Max Shulman's Barefoot Boy With Cheek.A bejewelled hovercraft.
Viewfinder Magazine: March 2008: Channel 4@ 25 2008-03-28 13:16:00 Aside from the odd choice of a topless Daniel Radcliffe in front of a horse mask as the front cover photo, Viewfinder number 70 is another good read.Channel
Four is twenty five years old (having started on the 2nd November 1982) and the front feature is on the channel's education contribution.Full of interesting facts- worth a read.There is also a review of Channel Four boos such as "A Licence To Be Different: The Story Of Channel 4."Turning scientists into journalists is another feature: by the Head of Department of the Science Communication Group at Imperial College, Nicholas Russel.I studied Biology at A-Level, so it was an interesting read.Okayish feature on mapping Britain's Screen Heritage, but not keen on opening. National School Radio Network: 4radio has linked up with our universi Read more:Magazine
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Notifications@lloydstsb.com e-mail 2008-03-28 12:43:00 I got four e-mails from this address even though I have no account with Lloyds TSB.It's a phishing scam, report it.I doubt fanclub.eisbaeren-fans.de would be part of the link to the real Lloyds web site.And the Security Advisor seems to be nameless.Dontreplay@lloydstsb.com is another clue: should be reply Read more:Notifications
Ashes To Ashes Episode Eight: Finale 2008-03-28 11:22:00 Last night was the final episode of Ashes To Ashes.Sorry it's taken me so long to blog it, but bbc iplayer had a problem.After an excellent vision by Alex, she realised she had to stop a car bomb killing both her parents.Lord Scarman,a Law Lord who chaired the 1981 Brixton riots inquiry, is also due to visit Fenchurch East Police Station, causing Gene Hunt, Sgt Viv and company to tidy away the worst aspects of the police station and lock Detective Constable Chris Skelton up to hide empty cells.Against this backdrop of fear, a Gay Pride demonstration takes place on a pink tank (I didn't know the TA had a sale).Ray is able to complain about Tom Robinson being gay "If you want to make poof music, you should dress up as a Red Indian or a builder.""His Twatship" Lord Scarman, played by the wond Read more:Episode
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Missing Headington Man 2008-03-27 17:32:00 Do you live in Oxfordshire?Have you seen Terry Marks, who was last seen 14th Feb?As the Oxford Times link shows, Terry is slim, 5ft 11in tall and has short brown hair. He is 34. Read more:Missing
Brian Paddick: Line of Fire: Published Mayoral Candidates 2008-03-31 12:45:00 One of the most unremarked aspects of the 2008 Mayoral elections is that the three main candidates are all published, as well as Left List candidate Lindsey German, who wrote (among others)The Balkans: Nationalism and Imperialism and Socialists and Class .Ken Livingstone wrote If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It, which I read in 2002.Apart from the appalling title, it was a reasonable book with great detail on the Greater London Council.Boris Johnson has written Have I Got Views For You, Lend Me Your Ears (a collection of columns and mystical interviews ,Johnson's Column and his novel Seventy-Two Virgins.Brian
Paddick recently published his autobiography Line Of Fire, which I read last week.Detailed and honest, Line Of Fire is revealing about Sir Ian Blair , Paddick's use of Urban Read more:Candidates
Dan Synge on magazine journalism 2008-03-31 10:37:00 This afternoon, we had a talk in the Low End at 2pm with Dan Synge.Dan spoke about his work at Esquire, Orbit and Source. Orbit is the magazine of Voluntary Service Overseas, and Source is the trade magazine of John Lewis.He discussed pitching as well. Read more:journalism
Financial News: Grant Clelland talk to Journalism and Finance students 2008-03-31 09:13:00 This afternoon Grant
Clelland, the Deputy Editor of Financial
News, gave a talk to some of us on his paper and financial journalism in general.Financial News is mostly distributed inside banks, although there are a handful of newsstands around Canary Wharf.It has a staff of around 130, 40 of whom are journalists.Their website was founded in 1998.Logins are sold to those in the industry as well.Unlike some publications, Financial News is highly profitable.Got a free copy of the paper and as I am specialising in financial journalism I will have a read after 5pm.First glance: well-designed.
Huge Paper Plane Fun 2008-03-30 11:03:00 Am watching two students about to launch a paper plane from on top of "the street", a semi-covered walkway with the SU Shop and a garden. Read more:Plane
House Of Commons Speaker Spends Taxpayers' Money On Home 2008-03-30 10:50:00 £1.7 million, in fact.£992,000 of this was spent on his garden.What did he buy?A swimming pool full of sharks that he could throw journalists into?A platinum garden gnome?The Government need to crack down on Martin's use of public money, instead of accusing his critics of snobbery.They are fourteen points behind and still turn off voters.Ivan Lewis, the Health Minister has already signaled his discontent."But we have been in government 11 years and instead of being on the side of the people, too often we simply defend the status quo, even when it is unacceptable."It is right we focus on the great challenges of climate change, globalisation, security and poverty at home and abroad and the nature of public service reform."However, we are too often silent on the daily realities facing hardw Read more:House
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News From My Google Reader: April 3rd 2008 2008-04-03 09:30:00 Sky News: Drugs Body Makes Cannabis DecisionNew York Times: Cypriots Tear Down Barricades on Division SymbolMedianetwork: Blast knocks AFN Germany off the air on 873 kHzGoogle
News Blog: psst...secrects of Google News exposed! Read more:Reader
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The Apprentice Episode Two: Dirty Laundry 2008-04-03 07:20:00 Another week of incompetence and internal struggle on the Apprentice
.It's the best reality shop since Coach Trip ended.Seven a.m. and a contestant, clad in a Superman t-shirt, answers the phone.As Sir Alan Sugar has to attend to an "urgent meeting", he talks to them by video.I would have preferred a badly shot Youtube video with Alan, Margaret and Nick sitting on a sofa drinking beer and gigging in between explaining the task.Laundry
this week:Nick Hewer, a man with the demanour of a confused Jeeves, met the boys, and Raef Bjayou became team leader.The boys did well on the task, although they did hide the irons from the girls' team, which Sir Alan Sugar failed to comment on.I though that was a little unfair, although the girls having to take washing back to the pimping shag pad that Sir Al Read more:Episode
Terrorism on Facebok: Supports of the IRA Causes Page 2008-04-02 14:25:00 Irish Republican Army supporters have a Facebook Causes page, with 766 members.One Matt Allen of Lahser High School in Detroit founded the group.Detroit is a long way from Birmingham, where 19 civilians were murdered by the IRA in 1974.One wonders how Matt Allen would react if someone set up a Supporters Of Bin Laden Facebook Causes page, but then NORAID and their ilk are little more than hypocrites. Read more:Terrorism
The National Union Of Teachers must be more militant 2008-04-02 12:18:00 Pay is of course a concern to teachers, like many public sector workers.Yet pay is not the only problem teachers face.Large class sizes, poor discipline and poor role models also play their part.Teachers should strike to call for improved conditions.They should march through London with banners and leaflets, and should make clear that every child suffers when playing fields are sold off and Only then will the Government take notice.If teachers organised regular strikes in both the state and independent sector, there would be chaos. Could the Army be called in to teach children? Or non-union university lecturers?I doubt it.Conditions will only improve when teachers protest. Read more:National
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Sky One's The Colour Of Magic and Terry Pratchett's Five Best Books: 2008-04-02 10:32:00 Produced by the Mob Film Company, The Colour
of Magic
combines two of Terry
Pratchett's spoof fantasy books.It was shown last weekend on Sky One, and I've finally got round to watching it on Sky+Much more faithful to the books than I thought the film would be, and certainly better than Hogfather.Although David Jason's Rincewind was far too nice, the other characters will well represented.Twoflower (Sean Austin), the Disc's first tourist, hires Rincewind the "wizzard" as his guide.The pair meet at the Broken Drum (you can't beat it) and end up falling off the wrld, meeting Cohen the Barbarian (David Brady) and flying on a dragon.Rincewind must stop evil The Colour of Magic from destroying the world by locating the spell inside the former's head.Although The Colour of Magic and The Light Fa Read more:Books
Five Reasons Why Printed Books Are Not Doomed: Kindle Me Not 2008-04-02 09:13:00 Duncan Riley has an interesting blog post on comments by the ever-lovely Society Of Authors* about book piracy.Chair Tracy Chevalier told The Times“It is a dam that’s cracking,” she said. “We are trying to plug the holes with legislation and litigation but we need to think radically. We have to evolve and create a very different pay system, possibly by making the content available free to all and finding a way to get paid separately.”.Tracy Chevalier and her members are safe.1. Books
do not require screenbreaks. Unlike a blog posting, a typical fiction book contains around 400 pages. Who wants to stare at a screen to read all that? The NUJ Express And Star chapel recommends a 15 minute screen break every 90 minutes.2. Book sales withstood library growth. They withstood charity sh Read more:Reasons
Virgle and other April Fools Media Jokes 2008-04-01 10:48:00 Good joke from Google today: Project VirgleVirgle's goal is simple: the establishment of a permanent human settlement on Mars. Larry Page, Sergey Brin and I feel strongly that contemporary technology is sufficiently advanced to make such an effort both successful and economical, and that it's high time that humanity moved beyond Earth and began our great, long journey to explore the stars and establish our first lasting foothold on another world.Google BlogGuardian Books go with Master Of SilenceGoogle Books: New Scratch And Sniff BooksNew Humanist: Local council in shock challenge to Catholic dogmaGMail allows pre-dated e-mails...The best one is TechCrunch's Why We’re Suing Facebook For $25 Million In Statutory Damages Read more:April
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Last Harry Hill's TV Burp of the series: Cut To Song 2008-04-05 15:51:00 Tonight's TV Burp was the last of the series
.Michael Aspel's last Antiques Roadshow came in for some ribbing, with a lady showing him a photo of a woman "She killed my mother's dog".Good jokes about Sugar's "hooky gear" with Kelvin Kline and Louise Sweetcorn.Not sure about the Thatcher gags myself: was that really her hidden?Freaky Eaters: pasta, cheese,chips.Delia Smith alcoholic "joke" silly.The Alan Sugar dummy was transformed into a Pat Butcher dummy for a finale. Read more:Harry
Blog Feedback: Newsjiffy 2008-04-05 15:45:00 Click Here to take surveyInspired by Iain Dale's sex survey, a survey about your views on this blog. Read more:Feedback
Unusual Facebook Application: Are You A Good Dentist? 2008-04-05 11:24:00 Two of my Facebook
friends have added the Are You A Good Dentist application.They have received the rating:"you are that type of dentists who could face difficult dental problems, you are cool , fast and a terminator. lol"The app has questions such as "Zygomatic arch fractures can be nicely demonstrated by which radiografic view ?"It has been reviewed once so far, and has a rating of 1. However, although I haven't taken the quiz (as I know little about dentistry outside of my Biology A-Level and 2002 orthodontic treatment) it seems to fulfill its niche job nicely.NB Any spelling mistakes within the quoted text are from the app, not from me! Read more:Application
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