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Warm Bologna night
Right foot volley David Platt
No penalties
Word reached me this week of the High IQ Haiku World Cup Project. I’ve never tried writing haiku before but this idea appealed.
They’re inviting haiku relating to the forthcoming World Cup, or to World Cups past. So I went with Italia 90, the first World Cup I properly [...]

Earlier this month, as part of its Manchester Celebrates Jaguar event, Jaguar lent me a sixty grand supercharged XFR for the night (complete with 5.0-litre, 510bhp V8 engine). So I thought I’d make a short film out of it.
The journey starts at the City of Manchester Stadium in east Manchester and continues through Manchester city [...]

My memory of the General Election this year is going to be dominated by Salford. As previously mentioned, I’ve been making a documentary about the local campaign in Salford and Eccles, focusing mainly on the anti-Hazel Blears candidate. As a result, I managed to get into the count on Thursday night/Friday morning and witnessed, at [...]

I’m currently working on a film about the general election campaign in Salford. It struck me as a good idea for a documentary after Salford MP Hazel Blears got embroiled in the expenses scandal last year. The film isn’t really about that, though. It’s about how ordinary people respond to politicians and the candidates themselves, [...]

I’ve just got back from Bolton, where Unite Against Fascism have organised a counter-protest to a demonstration by the English Defence League in the town centre. I’m making a film about someone on the UAF side, so I was there as an observer.
It was my first time at a protest of this sort and it [...]

The blog has now been fixed. It was offline for a couple of days after someone hacked it and redirected it to something Google didn’t like, which resulted in many seemingly intractable problems. Mercifully, someone pointed me in the direction of Manchester-based Wordpress guru Simon Wheatley, who identified and fixed the problem in about ten [...]

I thought it was about time I mentioned that I’m quitting my job and going back to university. I will be finishing at Estates Gazette (which, in case you didn’t know, is where I work) on August 14 and will, from September, be studying for an MA in television documentary production at the University of [...]

I’m becoming moderately obsessed by vintage Penguin paperbacks, mainly for the covers. Like these:

Penguin Crime – a set on Flickr
Penguin Books – a set on Flickr
Penguin & Pelican Collection – a set on Flickr

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The Guardian reckons that people aren’t blogging so much any more, and much prefer the shorter, sweeter option of tweeting and updating their status on Facebook. A lot of it is based on anecdotal evidence but there’s some science behind it, according to Charles Arthur.
NetNewsWire, my RSS feed reader, has nearly 500 feeds. When one [...]

You might have noticed I haven’t written much here recently. That’s because I can’t think of anything interesting to write about. Each post takes quite a lot of time to write and research and, after two years of doing that, in the long run I’m not sure what the point is. Google ranking? Lots of [...]