Last week I got engaged in a bit of rant about the incompetance of our local televison broadcaster. They are incapable of syncing their ad breaks with the programming that comes to them from the network. This means that you’ll abruptly depart from your program to watch an ad, missing some of the actual program. …
…is Dirty Jobs. 6.30pm weeknights on ABC2.
Less that you might think. The green screen means that not only are the stories fiction, so are the very images that portray them. It’s not the simulated reality of the alien vistas and sweeping panoramas that catches my interest here, but the use of the technology to portray the everyday and mundane. more about …
So, I’ve watched the first Test Match of the current Ashes Series. (That’s Australia playing England in a five match series of five day cricket games, for the uninformed.) The match ended in high drama, but a draw. Yep, five days of play and neither side won. And not even a penalty shoot-out at the …
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