Saturday, 27 November 2010
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Friday, 15 October 2010
NightStalkers 2010
This is an update to an original poem that was originally written by me in 2004.
You'll never see us,
but we're always there,
watching,
listening,
waiting.
The cloak of night
cannot hide you from us,
it is our friend and ally.
We know the darkness
that lurks within
the black hearted souls
of the parasites
who feed on humanity
We live in shadows
and move with stealth.
We can be anywhere, anytime,
and you would never know.
To your eyes
we could be anyone,
the man in the sharp suit,
the woman in the black dress,
but you could never tell,
for the day person,
is just the show.
We are NightStalkers,
regular folk one minute,
hunters the next.
Our prey are the criminals,
who feed on the helpless,
who steal from everyone.
Their only goal is chaos,
their only love is money,
they have no care for others.
Our only goal is justice,
and justice will be served,
ice cold, hard and swift.
Don't go looking for us,
you won't know we are there,
until it is too late.
There is no detecting,
there is no escaping
the NightStalkers.
You'll never see us,
but we're always there,
watching,
listening,
waiting.
The cloak of night
cannot hide you from us,
it is our friend and ally.
We know the darkness
that lurks within
the black hearted souls
of the parasites
who feed on humanity
We live in shadows
and move with stealth.
We can be anywhere, anytime,
and you would never know.
To your eyes
we could be anyone,
the man in the sharp suit,
the woman in the black dress,
but you could never tell,
for the day person,
is just the show.
We are NightStalkers,
regular folk one minute,
hunters the next.
Our prey are the criminals,
who feed on the helpless,
who steal from everyone.
Their only goal is chaos,
their only love is money,
they have no care for others.
Our only goal is justice,
and justice will be served,
ice cold, hard and swift.
Don't go looking for us,
you won't know we are there,
until it is too late.
There is no detecting,
there is no escaping
the NightStalkers.
Friday, 1 October 2010
CNN Fan is back
Turns out they were only moving servers, but with their site having been recently hacked and the memory of that still fresh, I did wonder if something similar had happened again.
Never mind, all back up and running now.
Never mind, all back up and running now.
Dish Network vs FOX. On the digital battleground.
This one almost passed me by, so it's nice that I actually caught up with this story now. Dish Network is having a contretant with Fox over their sports and entertainment channels, so Fox News and Fox Business are unaffected.
This primarily affects FX, Fox Sports Net and National Geographic Channel. However, in about a month's time, Fox Television Network and My Network TV could well be affected as well.
Obviously, both sides have launched websites detailing their case. But in addition to those, I'd like to remind you of one thing.
Fox is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns DirecTV, the direct opposition in the US Satellite TV market to Dish Network.
Murdoch likes people to think what he tells them to think. In that same area of satellite television, he owns Sky in the UK, Star in Asia and Foxtel in Australia. There are other subsidiary operations linked to those companies.
So Rupert Murdoch is used to getting his own way. The fact that Dish are standing up to him, is interesting. We will see how this story develops.
This primarily affects FX, Fox Sports Net and National Geographic Channel. However, in about a month's time, Fox Television Network and My Network TV could well be affected as well.
Obviously, both sides have launched websites detailing their case. But in addition to those, I'd like to remind you of one thing.
Fox is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns DirecTV, the direct opposition in the US Satellite TV market to Dish Network.
Murdoch likes people to think what he tells them to think. In that same area of satellite television, he owns Sky in the UK, Star in Asia and Foxtel in Australia. There are other subsidiary operations linked to those companies.
So Rupert Murdoch is used to getting his own way. The fact that Dish are standing up to him, is interesting. We will see how this story develops.
CNN Fan disappears again
The website cnnfan.org which is linked to the CNN Observations blog has once again disappeared mysteriously.
This time it happened at about 1923 GMT (2023 UK). It talks about the site having moved to a new location and that it may take up to 48 hours for your ISPs DNS servers to catch up. I'm dubious about the validity of this, and am watching CNN Observations for more details.
I will be tracking this story over the next few days.
This time it happened at about 1923 GMT (2023 UK). It talks about the site having moved to a new location and that it may take up to 48 hours for your ISPs DNS servers to catch up. I'm dubious about the validity of this, and am watching CNN Observations for more details.
I will be tracking this story over the next few days.
Monday, 30 August 2010
Thursday, 17 June 2010
Sky Sports News to leave Freeview... why?
British Sky Broadcasting have once again shown that they have a very clouded view of the media landscape, clouded by their desire to get everyone paying extra for TV channels.
They have decided to replace Sky Sports News on Freeview with a timeshift version of Sky 3.
One question, why?
Sky Sports News has been one of the success stories of Freeview. It more than tripled it's audience, in the early going, and has continued to see success all the way, outperforming Sky News and Sky 3. So why take it off Freeview now, thereby potentially losing 2/3 of the audience that has been consistently there since it's arrival on Freeview back in 2002? And why replace it with of all things, a timeshift channel?
Sky's strategy here seems more to be professional suicide than successful broadcaster.
They have decided to replace Sky Sports News on Freeview with a timeshift version of Sky 3.
One question, why?
Sky Sports News has been one of the success stories of Freeview. It more than tripled it's audience, in the early going, and has continued to see success all the way, outperforming Sky News and Sky 3. So why take it off Freeview now, thereby potentially losing 2/3 of the audience that has been consistently there since it's arrival on Freeview back in 2002? And why replace it with of all things, a timeshift channel?
Sky's strategy here seems more to be professional suicide than successful broadcaster.
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Hypocrisy and the Conservative press.
You can't rely on the Conservative newspaper press for anything, except hypocrisy.
You can't rely on them for facts, you can't rely on them not to change their minds in order to get the most readers, you can ONLY rely on them to be total hypocrites.
Case in point. The 2010 World Cup in South Africa. In particular the Vuvuzelas that have been so prevalent a sound at every match.
Yesterday, every conservative paper was practically begging for these horns to be banned from the World Cup.
Today, the Sun decided to slap their logo on 5,000 and give them away as prizes, so now we'll be hearing them at every Premiership match!
Total hypocrisy. The only thing that you can rely on from the Conservative media.
You can't rely on them for facts, you can't rely on them not to change their minds in order to get the most readers, you can ONLY rely on them to be total hypocrites.
Case in point. The 2010 World Cup in South Africa. In particular the Vuvuzelas that have been so prevalent a sound at every match.
Yesterday, every conservative paper was practically begging for these horns to be banned from the World Cup.
Today, the Sun decided to slap their logo on 5,000 and give them away as prizes, so now we'll be hearing them at every Premiership match!
Total hypocrisy. The only thing that you can rely on from the Conservative media.
Friday, 21 May 2010
The begging of 'dollar-a-hollar' channels
A good television channel is worth any amount of money that you want to pay for it. Certainly, I would say that the BBC as a whole is easily worth the money that I pay in my licence fee and probably a lot more. But when it comes to digital television, I would say a lot of them are not worth anything at all, and I wouldn't regularly watch them unless you PAID me to.
I would certainly say this is the case with your religious "dollar-a-hollar", evangelical channels, such as Daystar, TBN Europe, and especially right now, God TV. The channel that used to be known in the old days of 1995 as The Religious Channel, then decided that God TV wasn't a bad or indeed, totally blasphemous idea; they are now on the air, begging their viewers to donate money.
They need $4 million dollars in the bank by May 31st in order to pay transmission costs. The channel broadcasts across Europe and North America and I would think they will probably get their $4 million, but I wish they weren't.
People think that donating money to God TV will earn them a spot in the kingdom of Heaven. All it does is line people's pockets. The kind of programming that God TV airs, evangelical "dollar-a-hollar" programmes, is designed basically to get people to donate money to them under the pretense that it will gain them favour with their god. It's praying on their fear of death basically. It's not the kind of programming that I like to watch, and furthermore, I don't believe it's responsible broadcasting to be playing on people's fears.
They've already managed to raise over $1.5 million, so I fully expect them to reach their target. But I do think that that money could be better spent on other channels, who do far better programming. The public television stations in the US, like WNET New York, WTTW Chicago, WGBH Boston and so many others would love to use that money to provide programming that commercial operations won't provide, and the various public radio stations, WNYC, WETA, and all the other NPR, PRI and APM stations, could also benefit massively.
I'd rather viewers didn't waste their money on these so called religious channels.
I would certainly say this is the case with your religious "dollar-a-hollar", evangelical channels, such as Daystar, TBN Europe, and especially right now, God TV. The channel that used to be known in the old days of 1995 as The Religious Channel, then decided that God TV wasn't a bad or indeed, totally blasphemous idea; they are now on the air, begging their viewers to donate money.
They need $4 million dollars in the bank by May 31st in order to pay transmission costs. The channel broadcasts across Europe and North America and I would think they will probably get their $4 million, but I wish they weren't.
People think that donating money to God TV will earn them a spot in the kingdom of Heaven. All it does is line people's pockets. The kind of programming that God TV airs, evangelical "dollar-a-hollar" programmes, is designed basically to get people to donate money to them under the pretense that it will gain them favour with their god. It's praying on their fear of death basically. It's not the kind of programming that I like to watch, and furthermore, I don't believe it's responsible broadcasting to be playing on people's fears.
They've already managed to raise over $1.5 million, so I fully expect them to reach their target. But I do think that that money could be better spent on other channels, who do far better programming. The public television stations in the US, like WNET New York, WTTW Chicago, WGBH Boston and so many others would love to use that money to provide programming that commercial operations won't provide, and the various public radio stations, WNYC, WETA, and all the other NPR, PRI and APM stations, could also benefit massively.
I'd rather viewers didn't waste their money on these so called religious channels.
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