An online notebook
The Google Blog reveals that Google are now offering a video search: Soon there will be. Google Video is a new product that enables you to search an index of transcripts from recent TV programs. It’s just an early-stage beta product at this point; you’ll only see stills and text snippets from shows that match … Keep reading
The Oscar nominations are out – see here.
Picked up Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood in Ottaker’s for £1 (!) this lunchtime. I was tipped off by HoneyPotts on Palimpsest. The Guardian have a good profile of Murakami here. I’ll quote the whole thing, as it’s a good read and I am bound to want to come back to it later. Haruki Murakami got … Keep reading
Apologies for messing people around – if many people are out there reading this – but I have changed the URL of this blog to http://davebriggs.net rather than having it in the /blog subdirectory. I have included an automatic forwarder in the /blog directory, so anyone following an old link will be bounced straight to … Keep reading
I have finally finished work on the Scrutiny Handbook. I got my final draft copy back today from the Head of Department, and once I have amended things in line with his comments, we will be ready to go to print. It is 53 A5 pages long, and explains the Scrutiny process both specific to … Keep reading