Is this a hard drive? Is this just floppy disk? Caught in a page fault No ESC from reality Open your files Look up to the skies and C:\……..? Sometimes it’s worth reading the comments on YouTube. This one from Yuan Edo.
Podcasts
The Antarctic Whale Hunters
One of my favourite podcasts is Witness by the BBC World Service. In each episode they talk to people who were there at moments in history. There are some amazing stories in their archive. Each episode is an easy to digest twelve to fourteen minutes long. In the latest episode Gibbie Fraser talks about his time on a whale catcher in the Antarctic in the 1950s and 60s. Other episodes that stand out for me: Britain’s Little Blue Disability Car Women Nurses during World War One When Belgium Banned Coca-Cola How I Survived a Fire on a Plane Surviving the […]
General
Mind The Gap
Have you ever wondered who the voice behind “MIND THE GAP” is? Wonder no more. Phil Sayer was the voice actor who recorded this phrase and many other phrases used on the London Underground and other places in the UK. While listening to a recent episode of Everything is Alive I heard an interview with Elinor Hamilton. She is a voice actor who can be heard in many train and underground stations in the UK. She told of the comfort she got hearing her late husband Phil announce arrivals and departures as she got off trains, but also her grief […]
tv
People really love the new MacGyver
Check out the reviews on imdb.com! Well, ok. They don’t, but never mind that. Watch a few clips from the original MacGyver series! There are plenty on Youtube.