Steve Martin

Not a great look for Waitrose. Utterly off-brand behaviour.

Worst YouTube thumbnail?

Underrated: airing cupboards.

we don't hear much about the Blockchain any more either. Did nobody care?

buy Duraglit

The map on Down Detector basically just shows where people live.

My little dehydrated urine-coloured radio was quite the companion in Ghana this week. And that says a lot given the exalted company there. Check @james.crid.land's review at james.cridland.net/blog/2025/re...

It's customer service week. Shouldn't that be every week?

my daughter just asked me to call her at another time because she and all her student friends are about to watch Traitors together. Anecdote is never the singular of data but I reckon the BBC has a hit show there.

it's actually easier and cheaper to take a photo of a plug than generate this.

A shocker...

waiting for the call from @farrowandball.bsky.social

dehydrated urine colour

A radio review from James. I'm about to take mine to Accra. Ghana's media regulator says the country has more licensed FM stations per head of population than anywhere in the world. This could be the perfect device for listening to them.

tried this for 5 minutes. I'd be a rubbish FedEx employee

search "VPN router"... there are many on the market. They need a bit of fussy configuration but that's a one-off job.

Covid cases rising with new variants 'Nimbus' and 'Stratus' Unwell with a bad throat and temperature? You may have one of the new Covid strains circulating this autumn.

Surprising? I know five people who have tested +ve for Covid in the last three weeks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

which SIP provider did you go with?

trained by the late Mark Decker and directed by Vanessa Whitburn. Their influence still echoes through radio drama.

when we turned The Archers stereo we found there weren't enough stereo backgrounds in the sound effects library. Episodes were recorded 6-8 weeks before TX so you couldn't just pop out and record some birds - they'd be seasonally wrong. It took a year to make all the recordings.

thank you

guess it's a deliberate look for late night tv. The studio does appear gloomy in the split screen arrangement with De Niro who is lit conventionally.

optometrists are even chirpier

Tylenol eh? So that's why I can never find paracetamol in Walgreens.

splendid... mine flies to Ghana in a couple of weeks. It'll be interesting to see how many of the 48* licensed FM stations in Accra are on air and using RDS.
*busy dial

how are you getting on with your little radio and any software?

isn't it just... Felicity Montague and Tim Key too. Partridge at the BBC is the best.

I'm not convinced it was answered either

Hi @luketryl.bsky.social - do you have a chart that shows how interest in issues varies over time?

"Nuns on the run" was the strap on BBC News channel today. Thank heavens for stories like this in today's world. Utter joy.