Tag Archives: tv

John the Revolution!

2011-03-08 by mjr

If you were watching itv1 last night (or since), you might have seen the co-operative group’s Join the Revolution advert that hints at how buying from co-op shops helps to support a wide range of other co-operative efforts. This isn’t … Continue reading →

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Happy International Day of Cooperatives

2009-07-04 by mjr

Today is the 87th ICA and 15th UN International Day of Cooperatives. There’s a PDF message from the United Nations secretary general. It’s also the start of the Tour de France, which runs for the next 22 days. There are … Continue reading →

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World Economic Forum 2009 in Davos

2009-01-28 by mjr

The World Economic Forum opens today (28 Jan) and runs until the weekend. This year most of the high-power planning sessions and feel-good corporate social responsibility whitewash has been replaced by sessions such as “What Happened to the Global Economy?” … Continue reading →

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FS-4400 Satellite PVR

2009-01-15 by mjr

You may remember that I’m quite a satellite TV fan, having installed it in 2004 and compiled a FAQ. Over the holidays, I replaced my 4-year-old Digiquest receiver (terrible website) with a FortecStar FS-4400 PVR from Maplin. I’d love to … Continue reading →

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Five goes free-to-air, ASTEFAQ updated

2008-11-11 by mjr

After seeing Five to launch on Freesat over on the DTG website, I tried rescanning 28e and a channel called 6335 (or similar) appeared in the channel list but it had a FIVE logo in the corner. Maybe those DOGs … Continue reading →

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Don’t Attack Your Users

2008-08-12 by mjr

It seems to me like basic business common sense not to attack your software’s users, because they’re people who might fund your future development work, when they want some new feature adding or some adaptation making. We should hope that … Continue reading →

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