Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

Last night I was on a panel with Simon Fell (Controller emerging technologies, ITV) and Peter Weitzel (Manager broadcast technology developments, BBC Technology) at the Royal Television Society (RTS) review of IBC2004 event, chaired by journalist, Nick Radlo.
It was one of those rewarding event where everyone involved learns from each other. The panellists learnt […]

I’m completely sick of comment spam on this site. Every day 10’s of additional comments are left by spam bots posting their disgusting sites which cover the most revolting subjects. The people who are running these business are scum - pure and simple.
I was running MT-Blacklist, which had been quite successful blocking spam comments until […]

This type of thing really appears to me. Tucked away in the storage of archive.org are the photos taken while Google was starting in 1999.
There are nine shots (taken on what was probably then a state-of-the-art 640×480 digital camera) of the various pieces of kit, much of it donated, that were gathered together to run […]

The front page of the Daily Mail was filled with photos of the bloodied faces of the protesters at the pro-hunt rally yesterday, who had come up against the police. The inner pages were filled with righteous text as to why these great fighters for freedom (let us not forget that the freedom they are […]

Sitting down at breakfast in hotels during trade shows, you always hear bits of gossip being exchanged over strong coffee - normally it’s about the ‘adventures’ of the night before. Today I heard some gossip that was less than typical. On the table next to me one of them allege that Bill Gates is the […]

Ahhhh Me with the Sony QRIO

Originally uploaded by Simon.

I went to the Sony Professional Press launch at IBC Thursday evening in the Maritime Museum. As well as it being a very enjoyable event with some interesting people at it, I got to go backstage and hold the […]

Interesting clash of angles

Originally uploaded by Simon.

As mentioned, I’m testing Flickr as the place to publish and catalog my Internet facing images.
I’m very impressed so far, as they’ve really thought about how an online user/photographer works. An example being this posting, which after uploading the shots […]

I’m in Amsterdam for the build up to IBC, where I’m exec producing the Digital Lifestyles theme day.
I’m staying at the Bilderberg Garden Hotel, which is pleasant enough and in a really lovely part of town - just south of the Nooder Amstelkannal. I walked in to the RAI (exhibition halls) today and the […]

It’s a very sad day to hear on Reuters that the classic London bus, the Routemaster, will be withdrawn in 2005.
Developed started in 1947, as a replacement for the trolley bus, it first hit the roads in 1956. Designed to negotiate the twisting street of London, it is not only a classic, but hugely practical […]

A while back I posted about Brian Cannon at Microdot. Yesterday I received this update.Hi my name’s is Steve Allen, graphic designer on a few Oasis covers. I worked with Brian Cannon at Microdot for a couple of years. Yeah it’s true (unfortunately) Brian has returned to the streets of Wigan to ferry […]