This is sad: ITV kills the Yorkshire Television studios in Leeds. The wikipedia article should tell you why - the first studios in Europe designed for colour TV, the biggest working TV studio in Europe, and a lot of very impressive programmes. The history is interesting, too - the station set up in ...

25 years; the strike was the first political event, indeed one of the first events, I actually remember. At least I remember power cuts and TV news broadcasts with the number of weeks the miners had been out counting up. After that, I recall Chernobyl - they set up a radiation monitor in the car par...

I'm in Silicon Valley for work again, putting the finishing touches on a year-long museum interactive with my buddies at Inquirium. This is the 10th trip I've made out here for the project, and the monthly disruption of my routine has given me some insight into what I need to maintain my own peculia...

I have always wondered how the parents of child actors handled that. Do they tell little Johnny he did a great job, but sorry Charlie, no admission for you? So......yesterday, Oprah had a special on neglected children. As I shuttled my children upstairs to watch a video, I pondered the irony. Yep, m...

There is a Russian IT company that tends to rent huge stands at tech conferences and have a squad of practically naked girls gyrate on them; I mean, booth babes are one thing, but they are going further. The result is a constant line of the ill-bred standing in front of their stand, ogling. Anyway, ...

So I’ve been thinking lately about openness. I am, fundamentally, an open person. As such, my decision six months ago to lock down my Twitter account was a very hard one. I reversed it today. Why? Simple: I am an open person. You ask me a question, and you’re going to get an answer. Whet...

It is really hard to make decisions about summer employment with the specters of all my academic employment experiences hanging over me. I cannot see what's going on except through a lens of "how employment works" that has been entirely distorted by the academic market. And through tha...

"I'm afraid that if I start dreaming, I'll lose my way." I wrote it in my journal just the other day and immediately saw the irony. When we stop following our dreams, isn't that when we've lost our way and not the other way around? "If I start dreaming, I'm afraid I'll move away from ...

I can't imagine anything worse than surviving your own children. It must always be with you, every day of your life. And when you find you're enjoying yourself, I imagine you feel guilty, even though you know you shouldn't. I hate that hurt in life, those events that throw your world up in your face...

I'm a total slut when it comes to Mondays. Wednesday is so not happy hump day 'round these parts. My Mondays are always full of joy... because I know the Bachelor is on. Pathetic? Absolutely. And not just the stagings of the bachelor, but my favorite sitcom: The Big Bang Theory. I endure MTV's The C...