The Bugle

I've been listening to Sherlock Holmes on BBC 7 recently, it suits the chill autumn air.

Also I just have to say I'm really enjoying the Bugle, the Times relatively new podcast featuring comedic geniuses John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman. John Oliver reports from the U.S. where I think he is working on John Stewart's The Daily show. Zaltzman is in London. Giving you the news with all the wry observation that you'd expect from them, interacting with people's e-mails, waiting for the American, for their "Ask an American" feature to finally be free (after illness, moving house and being away from Thanksgiving). It's all very good. Good good.

And unexpected, such lefty leaning sentiments from the Times?

Another Site Bites the Dust?

No, No, not Demonoid!

Internet

I still love the Internet. I still marvel at it brilliance. I'm still in awe at how it has affected my life. Remembering Before Internet, the world seemed so much harder, things were difficult to find out, you needed sets of encyclopedia, huge books of "stuff you oughta know" things like that.

Oh, the amount I've managed to teach myself on the web and how easy it is to get hold of stuff that I never could have got my beak on Before Internet.

If you wanted to read French newspapers, or listen to Spanish radio you had to do a lot more than do a few searches.

Amazing new ways to perceive and interact with the world, yourself, your friends.

I'm still in love and in awe.