my Dell Dimension C521 died

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Life This morning, after being perfectly fine last night, my Dell Dimension C521 died. I press the small silver button on the front and a...
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the blu-ray versions of the Star Wars films are now up for pre-order

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Film And so the George Lucas colonises his next format with the blu-ray versions of the Star Wars films are now up for pre-order at your f...

The scones have gone

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Commerce Apart from the coffee and the Very Berry Scone, there have always been two other things I've always liked about Starbucks. T...
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somewhat like the Guggenheim

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Liverpool Life Pete Carr has photos of the interior of the new Museum of Liverpool . Looks somewhat like the Guggenheim. Or Tron.

heard a chair squeak

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Music If you were listening to the lunch time concert on BBC Radio Three this afternoon ( and you can again in the iPlayer ) and heard a...

detailed business evaluation

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Commerce In my predictions for this year I suggested that "a major high street entertainment retailer will close". I was, of...
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I heard Vincent D'Onofrio use the words out of nowhere

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TV You might remember how, during A Christmas Carol, this year's Doctor Who Christmas special episode , my emotional investment was ta...

"What about Merlin?"

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TV Another preview. For Chris Chibnall's Camelot . It's a good cast. The production design is movie quality. Let's hope...

"you'd rather like this movie"

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Film Woody Allen's latest, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, seems to have a release date for the UK, 18th March, just six months af...

"remain loyal"

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Film Watching as much "world cinema" as I do, I'm always very grateful for the efforts of translators in producing subtitles...

scrabble around

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Blog! Darren, who prompted me to scrabble around for a useful or interesting opinion about Alan Moore towards the end of last year, has b...

"I'm gonna need a bigger jotter at this rate..."

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TV For fans of web ephemera, here's Toby Anstis explaining to the BBC kids of 1995 how to reach the CBBC website: Has subdomain re...
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clutching their Deutsche Grammophon recordings

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Music BBC Radio 3's Mozart season is well under way and I can already feel myself becoming more intelligent with every beat, my eyes ...
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Feedback is welcomed, if not demanded.

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That Day Happy New Year, and welcome to 2011, and spending the next twelve months coping with a date that has just one too many syllable...
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Review 2010: The Opinion Engine: 31/31: "I read the news today, oh boy." (suggested by Kat Herzog)

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That Day We reach the time when I assess how well I predicted the ups and downs of the year and look forward to the next. And oh, boy:...

James Shapiro on Hamlet on BBC World Service

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James Shapiro, the author of 1599: A Year In The Life of William Shakespeare talks to the BBC's Witness programme about the play and th...

Review 2010: The Opinion Engine: 30/31: Some things I've enjoyed watching on television this year.

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TV It’s still strange to me that Sherlock on BBC One was considered the surprise hit of the summer, given the writers, the cast and the...

Review 2010: The Opinion Engine: 29/31: Also I'd love to hear what you think of Alan Moore from your perspective (if that means talking about his Doctor Who comics so be it...) (suggested by @linkmachinego)

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Comics That Alan Moore wrote any Doctor Who comics demonstrates both just how wide and flexible the franchise is and also how Moore best...

Review 2010: The Opinion Engine: 28/31: My year in films that aren't Inception. Part Two.

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I Am Love Few directors have rarely known what to do with Tilda Swinton’s unique aristocratic exoticism. Most often she becomes the for...

A Christmas Carol.

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TV Happy Christmas!  How are we all?  Still suffering from mince pie indigestion and an overabundance of alcoholic cheer?  Good, good. ...
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