Thursday, June 29, 2006

Radio Crimes: 18th Birthday, March 1989

Finally, an eight-page Radio Crimes special to celebrate URE's coming-of-age, from March 1989.















More URE archive

And yet more. This time, it's lots of officious letters I wrote when I was Programme Controller. I was a precocious git, wasn't I? And nothing changes...











Radio Crimes: Freshers Week 1988

Well, that seemed to work. So here's more from the Hall of Fame. Or rather, shame.







URE History

Here's a bit of radio history - this is the first edition of URE's programme schedule, Radio Crimes, that I appeared in, in 19yadayadayada.
If this works as I hope, you should be able to click on them to make them full size so you can read them. More will follow...







Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Working the night shift

It is not unknown for people round here, when the work in hand is done, and things have gone a bit quiet, to toddle off into a quiet corner and grab a few zees.

Prime locations include the sofas that can be found in the glass cube management offices which are dotted about the place.

Recently a snotty email went round from a manager complaining that someone had been sleeping on her office sofa, and could the perpertrator(s) desist.

Within twelve hours a response came round from one of the oldest lags on the nightshift to the effect that some woman had been working in his bedroom during the day. He'd been putting up with it so far, but was starting to find it a bit intrusive.

I await further developments with interest.

Thursday, June 22, 2006

A pint of your finest Puppy



Next time you're in York and fancy a pint of Yorkshire Terrier, bear in mind you may be taken literally.

I suspect this beer's from Canada, as this glass appears to contain a Labrador.

There's plenty more of this rubbish on www.cuteoverload.com

Sunday, June 18, 2006

Now does this mean...

... that IPods are truly great, or that students really aren't what they used to be? (Or does typing that last sentence make me really old?!)

Survey: iPods More Popular Than Beer
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Move over Bud.
College life isn't just about drinking beer. In a rare instance, Apple Computer Inc.'s iconic iPod music player surpassed beer drinking as the most "in" thing among undergraduate college students, according to the latest biannual market research study by Ridgewood, N.J.-based Student Monitor.

More from The Washington Post/AP.

Now that's what I call...

...a bonus.

Soca Warriors on the World Cup's Most Unusual Win Bonus
A win against England in Thursday's Group B encounter will see the 23 Trinidad & Tobago players, and their coach, celebrate in style when they return to their homeland. Angostura Rum, the national drink of the islanders, has promised to give the most historic barrels of rum it owns to the players if they can score three points in the crucial World Cup game.

As always, the devil is in the detail...
the 24 Angostura Rum casks, which each hold 247 litres of undiluted spirit...
247 litres - each! Crikey.

Friday, June 09, 2006

Just as we're leaving...

Sandi Thom only flippin' goes and puts Tooting on the map for the first time since 1976, in this fine article from Popjustice: Welcome to Tooting.
Well, OK, that and the murders...

Sunday, June 04, 2006

Next Thinking

In the spirit of what I believe is termed "the blogosphere", we should probably say that other blogs by radio people are also available.
Here's a good one from the former MD of Capital Radio, Keith Pringle.
There's a lot of good advice on there, although you can't comment on the postings. And how about some links - including one back to the Pub Guide?!