Toms View of the World

This is a trip report from my 2008 trip to Orlando - the full write up is after the jump…

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Well, as I did last year, the end of “Pink for October” on this site is also the time to apply a totally new look.   It’s not “final” yet as the background image is likely to change - I’d forgotten that one of my regular visitors uses a very high screen resolution, and is getting white borders around the image.

I’ll probably change the background from time to time too…

(Yes, I know it’s early to remove Pink…)

 but different is often good…

from: http://www.monkeyreview.co.uk/index.php/2008/10/09/i-introduce-the-kazookeylele-this-is-wha

As you may have noticed (If I remembered to log on this morning and change it anyway) the site has taken on a very pink hue.

This is because, as I did last year, I’m joining in with the annual “pink for October” breast-cancer awareness campaign.  For those of you who read on the RSS feed, feel free to don a pair of sunglasses and click through to the main site!

One of the advantages of using a simple and non-graphical wordpress theme is that changing the CSS and header images is only a few minutes work really - but it doesn’t half make a point!

The BBC have replied to a question I sent via the website - see the previous post,

Their reply would be funny if it didn’t show a total lack of competance.

Thanks for your e-mail regarding ‘Heroes’.

I understand you’d like to know why episode one of series three is not being shown on the HD Channel.

‘Heroes’ is not available on our BBC HD channel.  Please visit our HD website for further information as well as a list of the programmes that our available on this service:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbchd/

Thanks again for taking the time to e-mail us.

 

Clearly, Heroes is available on BBCHD, the website they linked to says it is and shows the second episode of Season 3 being shown at 10pm on Wednesday 1st October.

The BBC is the flagship High Definition broadcaster in the UK - with HD programming available on both Satellite and Cable services.

Why then is the first episode of the new season of one of their flagship shows not being shown in HD?

I am of course talking about season 3 of Heroes.

The first episode is being shown on BBC2 on Wednesday 1st October.  The second episode is then being shown immediately afterwards on BBC3 and BBCHD simultaneously.

One has to wonder what the BBC has against Heroes fans who wish to watch the whole season in HD.  Why do we have to watch the first episode in Standard Definition?

This is almost as bad as ITV skipping the second episode of Pushing Daisies entirely.

Aye, ye land lubbers, it’s here again, International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

OK, so which bitTorrent tracker can I use t' grab th' latest hi-bitrate low compression hi-definition Blu-ray rip o' th' latest blockbuster movies off th' internet?

Oh, not that kind o' pirate… ye mean th' “scourge o' th' seven seas” type o' pirate… well in that case, in honour o' th' day, this entire website will be automatically “piratificated” by th' blog engine - articles and comments included… just fer today (except this post - which should stay as a pirate post!).