It has become impossible for me to update the original calendar, Google keeps timing out when I try to save loosing any changes I have made. Instead I have created an ICAL file which you can import in to Google yourself, copy this link http://blog.artesea.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/World-Cup.ics...
Following the collection of these websites, could everybody please email / ring / fax / post the BBC with requests to screen Jerry Springer the Opera.
The last count for the BBC was 15,000 complaints, so lets at least get some positive emails out there, followed by more after it’s aired.
You can contact the BBC via info@bbc.co.uk
After the show is aired, you can then contact Ofcom
Spread the word, add this to your blog:
I’ve just installed Microsoft Anti Spyware Beta, and we’ll see how it goes.
Whilst I’m here, I’ll report on the Google Desktop Search which I installed back in October.
Useless, whilst I did pick up some files, it constantly complained about NetLimiter, even though there were no problems, and to get rid of the Alert message, I had to load a Google Help page within IE, neither I really wanted.
After she moaned about the link to the council website, I thought that I would post this picture.
If you are on the main page of this blog, on the right (someway down), you’ll see the 3 most recent comments on the HaloScan comments section.
This is possible through using PHP, Comments RSS Feed, JavaScript, MagpieRSS, and the Blogger Hack I posted about a few days ago.
The BBC are airing this on BBC2 this Saturday, as somebody who has seen it twice, and have the soundtrack, I think it’s quite funny that people are already complaining.
In the letter from mediawatch-UK to the BBC they say
The continuous stream of obscene and profane language, as well as the debauched behaviour that characterised Mr Springer’s TV shows, is unacceptable and will alienate a large number of viewers. Licence fee payers do not expect the BBC to be pushing back boundaries of taste and decency in this way
I thought that most programming alienated a large number of viewers. Not everybody watches the World Cup, Eastenders, Ground Force or Little Britain. However the BBC needs to target each group of society with programmes they want to watch. I’m pretty sure that most of my peers will enjoy this show.
They then go on to say
Bearing in mind that there is already mounting public concern and an absence of any assurance regarding compliance, we believe that the decision to show ‘Jerry Springer The Opera’ should be urgently reconsidered at the highest level within the BBC. There must be other West End productions that would be more enjoyable and appreciated by a far greater number of licence-fee payers? Why not, for example, screen a seasonal pantomime, with well-known and liked television and radio personalities, currently showing at provincial theatres across the country?
Yes a panto, that will really cater for the 18-30′s market which BBC2 are trying to reach!
This weekend I came up with a script that would allow you to have the post title in your HaloScan window and also have the Next and Previous post links on the Item Pages.
IF YOUR CODE HAS STOPPED WORKING, IT’S BECAUSE I’VE MOVED A FILE, PLEASE MODIFY YOUR TEMPLATE AS PER STEP 4
Now it’s a bit tricky, and a bit messy, but here’s how to do it.
Note, you will need a remote file hosting system!
Step 1.
In the Blogger settings, on the Formatting page make a note of every setting.
Then change Show to 999 Posts, and Timestamp Format to a date output setting (I choose Sunday, January 02, 2005).
Hit Save Settings, but do not Republish your blog.
Step 2.
In the Template page, copy your template in to a text editor like Notepad, and save it. The replace the whole template with
Then hit Preview.
In the Preview window, view the page source, select all the text and copy it in to a text editor. You will need to remove everything above:
and also
from the bottom.
Save it as post_data.js and upload it to your file space.
Step 3.
Restore all your settings.
Step 4.
In your blogger template add the following lines between the head tags
With WWW.YOURWEBSITE.COM the location where you uploaded the post_data.js file.
Then you can add the following lines, where best suited (although they must be between the <Blogger> tags).
You’ll then need to save your template, and republish the whole blog.
Step 5.
If you use HaloScan, and are a Premium Member you can add these two lines of code to your HTML Template.
Between the HEAD tags add:
And where you want the title of the post to appear add:
Hopefully it should all work after these steps, if you have any problems, leave a comment. The only problem is that you’ll need to generate the javascript code after every post, and that you’re limited to only 999 posts.
Whilst I don’t really like the honours system, I can just about see why Matthew Pinsent (4 Olympic Gold Medals over 12 years) and Tanni Grey-Thompson (11 Olympic Gold Medals over 16 years) became Sir and Dame, but why did Kelly Holmes (2 Olympic Gold Medals over 1 summer) also become a Dame?