lenina no longer watches TV

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Yes, a heading that says it all. I think I’ve blogged last week about my big TV (42″ rear projection Toshiba) no longer working properly. Well, up until a week or so ago I still managed to switch it on occasionally. My TV habits were to watch the news after [...]

TV is Broken

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All sorts of things break down here @ lenina’s at the moment: car, washing machine, and now my big 42″ TV. The TV hasn’t been working well for a while - basically it just won’t switch on properly (you have to try 100 times before it works).
This entire week, for instance, I haven’t [...]

Germany in the Final

As people will know by now (if they’re bothered about football..), Germany are in the final. Just a wee comment about the BBC reporting about the Germany-Turkey match - there’s an anti-German bias there, which annoys me:

Philipp Lahm’s last-minute winner sent Germany into the Euro 2008 final and sank a desperately unlucky Turkey.
Lahm stole in [...]

Never Write Off Germany

Beautiful, beautiful win yesterday against Portugal in the Euro 08 quarter-final.

Once again Teutonic grit and nous has outdone Latin flair.
Never ever write off Germany…The supreme masters of International competition football…

Read more coverage on the BBC - but the most interesting discussions are always the fans’ comments on 606 (BBC football ‘discussion board’ - i.e. people [...]

Season Finale of Peep Show

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The season finale of the excellent CH4-series Peep Show was on last night. While not as good as episode 4 (I think it was episode 4 - the one where Jeremy doesn’t get his inheritance, and Mark is ‘raped’ by a woman), it was very still funny and with a great cliffhanger (Sophie [...]

BB9 has started

BB9 has started and it doesn’t look too bad. They’ve finally got a male cutie in there that I like the look of (well, first impression… obviously once I get to hear him talk more etc. he might just turn out a thicko, as happens often ).
The other thing that struck me was that [...]

Big Brother 9 Starts 5th June

Noticing an increase in searches for the Imogen Sex Tape, and seeing one or two Big Brother 9 idents, reminded me that BB9 is starting next Thursday, 5th June.
I’m not sure if I’ll be watching - it’ll probably just be the launch night, the second night, and then all evictions (seeing that it’s on on [...]

Back in London

I’m back in London now and the first thing I’m doing is downloading the shows via iPlayer that I missed while out in Italy.
I tried DLing them while there, but to no avail (it only works in the UK! How could one get around that… hiding IP?)
So now I’ve got on download:

The Apprentice - Episode [...]

BBC iPlayer Icon is Skype in Pink

I’ve just started using BBC iPlayer, more info on that some other time. Just an observation that their wee icon looks just like the Skype one - only it’s pink

Finally Cancelled Sky

Today I finally cancelled Sky. I’d tried this before - in January in fact - but because I hadn’t been with them for long enough it was impossible. They really are an example of how NOT to do it. Through my experience with them, I’m now absolutely wary of any 12-months-contracts (other than an essential [...]