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:: Monday, January 26, 2004 ::

New gig review posted. Toxic Dancehall III: The Bug, Shitmat, Anarchic Hardrive, Bin Ray & The Black Swan, Easton, Bristol, 24.01.04

Ricky Gervais has become the first UK actor to win a TV comedy acting award at the Globes and The Office became the first UK sitcom to win the best comedy prize. One of the best aceptence speeches I've heard since Michael Moore's "Shame on You, Mr. Bush" speech.
"I'm not from these parts... I'm from a little place called England. We used to run the world before you" (If anyone can find a complete transcript that would be great)

Gates reveals M$ anti-spam tactics (not being the world third largest spammer would help) at the World Economic Forum in Davos (only an R missing).
"The ultimate solution would be to make senders of e-mail pay a fee if their mail was rejected as spam. "Payment at risk", the electronic equivalent of a stamp, would not deter genuine e-mailers who would be confident their mail would be accepted"
Unless we needed to top up the shareholders dividend and oops, we've just charged for every email sent anywhere in the world today, never mind, won't happen again, promise.

Rob Brydon, of Marion and Geoff fame, returns to our TV screens this week to provide spoof directors voiceovers for TV classics like 'I, Claudius' and 'Upstairs, Downstairs'. 'The Director's Commentary' in on ITV (help! proll tele!) on Wednesday at 11pm.

:: Dan 26.1.04 [Arc]    ::
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