One of my memories of my grandfather is that his television used to show cinema adverts. Back home, in London, in the huge Thames/LWT television region that covered some eight million people, we only got slick, national adverts, for slick national products. But my grandfather lived in Somerset, in the much smaller HTV-West region, where [...]

This post is perhaps taking advance notice to a ridiculous extreme, but just for the record, and because, well, I am going to be there… I’ll be at the Discworld convention 2010, run by my very good friend Brian Nisbet. I was at the last convention in 2008 (it’s run every other year) and it [...]