Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

I had to buy a battery for one of the cordless phone in the house, and did a price survey of the cheapest ones around. The particular battery I was after varied from £9.99 to £5.95. In the end I went for Batteries Plus+. I ordered it and it arrived the next day … very […]

(I’m having a clear out of old posting that didn’t hit the screen, but that are still relevant. Originally written 25.Feb.05)
The UK Home Office researchers have released a report into the effectivness of Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) in detering crime within city centres.
Surprisingly for an increasingly-lunatic Home Office, the published results aren’t positive for CCTV.
Only […]

(this is an old post that I’ve been meaning to put out for ages)
Sally called me to let me know a friends mother, Rita Gilligan, was talking on Radio 4 about her time at Live8 during the last weekend. She’s the very first waitress to work at the first Hard Rock Cafe in Park Lane, […]

[ 15, September 2006; 11:19 am to 2:19 pm. ]

The Philips press room:IFA 2006

Originally uploaded by Simon.

Hats off to Philips for having the best press room at IFA 2006.

Trade shows are a torrent of noise, flashing lights and people at the best of times.

Understanding this, Philips tucked away their press room, sound proofed […]

dSLR’s have been pulling on by get-me glade for about 18 months now, so getting a backstage/stage pit pass for the Bestival took me over the edge, to splurge.
New things to cope with - RAW images (different s/w - and possibly processing -needed) of ~10Mb each (storage a big issue - remember Emidio recommend Verbatim […]

Back from Bestival today, which lived up to its name. It’s like the Big Chill, but with a strong, mad edge. It’s really is the Best of all, well, of the ones I’ve been to. A comparion that springs to mind is Burning Man, but without the desert. I missed going again this year, but […]

Great quote from Fred Allen
“Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.”

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Just back from Berlin. One difference I noticed, Germans (and possibly other nations) do not walk on escalators.
In the UK the norm is if you want to stand still, you stand on the right hand side. If you’re walking, up or down, you do it on the left.
Most trade fairs are a pretty big rush, […]

I _had_ to fly out of the UK last week, to get to Berlin for IFA.
I’m not a fan of waiting around, ie. queueing and with the ’security’ measures still in place, I wasn’t looking forward to it.
I looked at the BAA site and the only information that they passed on was “It will take […]

Can you every imagine seeing a pink dildo on the front page of a UK national newspaper site? Let alone a US one?
Dagbladet is in the top three newspaper in Norway and they don’t appear to have a problem with it.
Dagbladet
Story

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