One Man's Notes

What were you afraid of as a child that seems silly to you now?
Submitted by navelgazer.

Tron [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

There was a single scene in Tron that terrified me as a 10 year old when I first saw it. The hero of the movie is "shot" with a laser and digitised into the computer. I've no idea why it scared me so much, but I refused to have a computer in my bedroom, until getting my first Mac at university left me no choice.

While that particular fear is pretty much gone, I still get seriously freaked out by what you might call "cyber-horror", where human bodies are partially replaced by mechanical parts. The cyber-conversion scenes in the most recent series of Doctor Who really freaked me out, for example, as did "cyberwoman" from Torchwood.

What's your favorite heartbreak song?
Submitted by esta86.

Here's Where the Story Ends

Tin Tin Out

I Quit

My favourite is probably Here's Where the Story Ends, by Tin Tin Out.

Depending on my mood and the girl in question, Ordinary World by Duran Duran, Locked Out by Crowded House or even I Quit by Hepburn have all been soundtracks to heartbreak for me.

You'll not that my heartbreaks are very mainstream, very pop-y. How very teenage.

This is what some charmer did to my car overnight:

Wing clipped?

Off to see Casino Royale tonight. I'm more excited about this than any Bond film I've seen in years.

You may have noticed that my Livejournal posts have dropped to almost nothing since Vox launched. I'm finding posting there a more satisfying experience.

Well, now I can cross-post to LJ from Vox, so you should be hearing a little more from me.

What song makes you rock the karaoke mic?
Submitted by Ann.

No song does that. I last did karaoke about 14 years ago, and am in no hurry to do it again...

Mum has wanted to go to Sutton Hoo for years. On Sunday we finally went. More pics to follow…

Mum at Sutton Hoo.

The only business mag in the local supermarket is Farmer's Weekly.

How to tell you're in the countryside...

We had our annual Editors Conference in Brighton a couple of weeks ago. I was hoping to pull together some video of the event, but  I had precious little time, as it turned out. So, I've pulled together what I did shoot in this silly little video:

Windows, Mac, Linux - What's your preference and why?
Submitted by ramblingsbymark.

I'm pretty much a Mac man and it's pretty much because they're pretty machines.

I'm actually quite serious about this - I find the aesthetics of the Mac OS and the machine design to be more conducive to productivity than the aesthetics of the Windows environment. Of course, this being an aesthetic judgement, it only holds true for the value of me.

Linux? Waaaay too techie for me.

What's your dream career? 
Submitted by Something.

Oh, probably as a multi-media reporter given the freedom to travel, and cover stories with words, pictures and movies as I saw fit. And the freedom to go out and find those stories for myself.

What I'm doing right noiw comes a pretty close second…

What's your favorite radio station, past or present?

Rather sadly, I'm pretty much a Radio 4 man these days, althought I have had period swhere Radio 1, Capital Radio and Jazz FM were my favourite stations.

How did you pick your Vox name? Does it mean something? 
Submitted by LeendaDLL.  

Uh, well, Adam is my first name, so…

Actually, I was just delighted that I was "in" a new service early enough that I was actually able to bag my first name. I'm chuffed about that in a pretty immature way.

Do you believe in ghosts?  Have you ever seen a ghost? 
Submitted by Nancy.

In the sense of "restless spirits of the dead still walking the world", well, no. I do think there are phenomena which are at the root of the ghosts legends we have which remain to be explained by science, but given enough time, they will be.

I was walking through Trafalgar Square earlier when this happened. Wasn't Ken meant to be getting rid of them?

When pigeons attack

So, I've been testing a new phone with digital camera for work purposes. Here's some pictures of the merry Business Development gang:

And here's a rather nice one of the QH Starbucks:

QH Starbucks

And, lastly, here's some less successful ones of a presentation yesterday. I need to do some more testing of the camera's utility in dimly-lit places.

In honor of Vox's launch tomorrow, what's your favorite feature or aspect of Vox?

I just love the ability to pluck media into Vox from other sources: movies, pics and the like. I love rich media websites and Vox makes it so easy to bring your blog to life.

(Although, it would be quite nice if it worked with your YouTube account like it does with your Flickr account...)