Ofcom warns BBC

This is an interesting news article, apparently Ofcom have said that plans for BBC programs to be available for download for up to 13 weeks after they have been broadcast is not in the public interest and will have a negative effect on commercial rivals.

So my 2 pence on the subject.
I think this is very much in the public interest, most people I know rarely watch television programs when they are scheduled to be broadcast, not only that but people who thought something was good tell other people about the program and it's nice to be able to go back and watch something that you might not initially have watched.

As for commercial rivals.
They would have different programs available to the BBC anyway, they would probably charge you to download the program and no doubt it would also contain advertising, we pay the license fee so should have full access to current BBC content.

Impact on DVD sales.
Well the impending format war between Blu-ray and HD-DVD will probably have a much bigger impact, I do own several box sets of BBC series and that won't change as these are usually bought many years after they were broadcast on TV.

In case your wondering I don't work for the BBC.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6290745.stm

There's something about Rick!

although I haven't figured out his inspiration for abbreviations comes from I did find out his sudden enthusiasm for me came from, apparently one of my male friend (someone who I usually manage to piss off of late without intention) told Rick that I'm an easy lay, mentioning that he's had me several times before (said friend has ejaculated over me once before, but I was dressed and unaware of his intention until it was too late, this is where the hostilities started, but that's another story) so I haven't told Rick he's not my type, I've seen him out with us for the past six months or so now although I haven't talked to him that much until Saturday evening, he seems a nice bloke so I don't want to just blow him off, perhaps I'll gently suggest he's not the man for me and hope he doesn't get shitty about it, I don't want to start alienating all my friends.

Saying that I was in a quirky mood this morning and replied to his text message 'I think ur fone is broken, it keeps missing letters out.' I actually felt kind of bad after I sent it and he hasn't replied so I may have already blown him off.

Men! who wants them?

Text messaging

or I believe it's called sms'ing now, I must be getting old!

After a night out drinking I sometimes get a text from my sister, although we share an apartment she thinks it's safer to text me than knock on my door, now in a semi-conscious state I like text's which don't require much mental power to process, my sisters messages are normally something like 'hi, how r u feeling?' which is very easy to understand even with slightly blurred vision and a hangover from hell.

I was out last night with some friends and had given my mobile number to a friend who didn't have it, he must have thought he pulled or something since I got a message from him today reading 'Hi, h r u 2d, rick x' I've changed the name to to rick for the purpose of this post, I hadn't had that much to drink so no ill effects this morning, but I had to think about the message for a few moments before I understood it, 'h' doesn't sound anything like 'how', the 'r u' is easily understood for 'are you', but '2d' for 'today', I know it's easy on the fingers but am I just getting old or something?

I sent a text back about an hour after he sent it, just a simple 'I'm fine thanks', got a reply almost immediately 'gld to hr it, lkg fwd 2 nx tme, x' am I reading to much in to the kisses, haven't replied to that one, my head still hurts from reading it.

These boots were made for walking

Wednesday was a day full of fun (can't you just feel the sarcasm)
It started when I parked on the verge of the company pond (normally known as the car park), although it was slightly flooded and since I wasn't early I was the one with wet feet, and I mean literally, my usual casual office shoes were no match for the pond and my feet were wet as soon as I got out of the car.

So I'm walking around the office bare foot and finding that the carpet on the edge of the walkways (where few people walk) is lovely and soft, I was fairly happy and had forgotten about the treacherous weather outside and the fact I was barefoot, that was until a delivery guy in his big man boots stood on my feet, not once but twice! the first time he apologised but the second he just covered his assets, that might have been due to the look I gave him, ha.
My shoes had dried out by mid morning so I decided to put them back on, they were a bit stiff and god did my feet hurt when I eventually got home, late as usual.

Thursday, mindful of the previous days events I decided to wear boots, I have a lovely pair of Stella McCartney boots that if I must say look fab on me, but if I'm going to wear fashionable boots I couldn't wear the usual office getup so I pulled out a designer suit to match.
My cautionary tactics proved to be well thought out as our pond was now a lake and the water was only just below the door of my car (thats a normal saloon not a 4x4) ok I'm exaggerating a bit but it was deep enough to submerge my feet, so I wade through the water watching some of the guys trying to convince the security guards to park their cars so they wouldn't get their feet wet, judging from the number of guys with rolled up trousers they didn't succeed.

Now wearing boots means I have to wear socks, I'm not much of a sock lover but have a supply for such occasions, the only problem being my toe nails are nice and sharp so when I got home I had a hole in each one where my big toe was, I like my toe nails, they are good for stabbing people with in night clubs when they annoy me :)

Random Post

In case you didn't notice, I like pink, the colour that is not the singer, just felt like sharing that!



Judge John Deed
Oh and the new series of Judge John Deed is on BBC1 Tuesdays and Thursdays, I think it's one of the must see shows on TV, from the little TV I actually watch I like to think that I choose my viewing carefully, although like any program I choose to watch I find the scheduling of the program doesn't fit with me but these days that doesn't matter much as I record things for convenient viewing, although as mentioned before I am concerned about the effect this practice has on shows, series such as Farscape were cancelled because not enough people watched it, but because of record DVD sales they made a mini-series to finish the story line, but still shows television studio's don't have a clue about what the audience wants.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/crime/judge


Celebrity Big Brother
Does anyone actually care? I certainly don't!


BNP Ballerina
Not that I'm a member of the BNP as I don't agree with their policies, but in this instance I think the protesters are out of line, perhaps we should enter their work place and start shouting things at them while they are trying to get their job done?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6255723.stm


Strike Action
Another god dam strike! no doubt they would choose a time which will cause the most disruption to the public which will win them no sympathy, not that I'm against people's right to strike (although I think it's often abused) what did I do to deserve you to disrupt my holiday travel arrangements (not that I'm saying this instance will) it's like the fire strike a few years ago, as soon as they chose strike on bonfire night they lost my support.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6261935.stm


Nintendo wii
Now I don't have one, of my friends that do they all love it, even people who wouldn't normally play games, but they all agree on one thing, they hate the name and where possible avoid saying it opting for 'the new Nintendo console', 'that new thingy from Nintendo', 'the console you play with a remote' and frankly I agree, I think it's one of the stupidest names they could have come up with, maybe it got lost in the translation from Japanese?

Fight club - temp girls - Part 2

There was me saying I was aiming for 1 post a day and I go and miss 2 days!! thats life I guess.

Anyway so onto the temp girls.
So things flared up mid week, I nearly fired Amy because she used Joanne's email to send a message to people, the message was worded as an apology from Joanne, but it backfired in Amy's face, especially when I got wind of it.

To cut a long story short, mainly because I'm tired and want to go to sleep, Joanne handed her notice in, I probably spent more time talking to her about what she planned to do than I had during the whole time she worked for me, turns out she's a really smart girl, much more than people give her credit for.
For those of you thinking I'm a bad boss for not knowing much about her, yes I should spend more time getting to know the people who work for me but her direct supervisor is off sick which is why all this ended up on my plate, we all learn from things and I've decided to make some changes to how things function, some perhaps some good came of it after all

Never enough time

There never seems to be enough hours in the day!

Would like to say thanks to London-Lass for posting the first comment on my blog, yey someone actually read it!!! ha.

I've been remembering an incident that happened to me a few years back, didn't seem funny at the time but does now, which is always good I think, each time I remember something else about it I'm jotting it down, hopefully on the weekend I'll have enough notes to piece together something coherent.

I'm trying to stick to at least one blog entry a day, although I have no plans to post while laying on the beach in sunny Spain :)~ but will no doubt have plenty of stories when I come back, but I not actually going for another 6 months :(