The BAFTA awards were today. I’d never seen this before. It was pretty entertaining. Stephen Fry did a great job hosting. I was psyched to see Charlie and Donald Kaufman get the award for best adapated screenplay for Adaptation. Best Film went to The Pianist (which I still want to see).

Friday Warner Brothers officially announced the cast for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. This one should be really interesting. I can’t wait to see what Alfonso Cuaron does with it. I didn’t realise that he directed A Little Princess also. I can definitely seem him rocking with this.

Oh yeah, and Gary Oldman is cool casting for Sirus Black.

Last last night a I was talking about 80s music with someone online and Adam Ant came up in the conversation. This morning I skipped ahead in my CD ripping and ripped Antics in the Forbidden Zone. Now I can’t stop listening to it. I miss the 80s sometimes.

Jeff Walsh has an interesting essay about blogging and journalism (via GlennLogs, via Scripting News). I think I agree with him the most as far as the connection between the two. I’ve actually always seen it as a case of blogs CAN be journalism (Wi-Fi News), but they aren’t necessarily.

Opinion columnists (and to some extent software reviewers) live in a different world. Their entire shtick is their take on things. It’s why their photos appear above their columns, they are clearly building a brand. The photo is there, all of the copy is first person, and they have absolutely no interest in being objective. Fair, sure. But they clearly can say “Microsoft is off its rocker if it thinks any of its millions of Office users want this.” No grunt can, at least not in their articles. Not unless they’re quoting someone.

So, if there is any connection to be made, I think bloggers are the opinion columnists of the journalism world.

This seems like a much more interesting connection to me (Is writing opinion columns journalism? How is that viewed in the journalism world?). Of course the other issue with this is that everyone seems to have a slightly different definition of just what is a weblog. I go with the very general definition where everything from ‘traditional’ weblogs to more journal style sites are weblogs.

So I’ve been thinking about what to do with Radio. I know a few people who run multiple blogs and end up using different tools for each. There are also some very cool features in Radio. I actually really dig the whole upstreaming thing. I like being able to drop something in a folder on my laptop and have it just show up on the web server.

Though, thinking about it now what I really want is something that keeps two folders in sync. So that I can edit or add files on my laptop and they’ll feed to the web site. But also, sometimes I need to edit things on the web site and would love those changes sent back to a version of the site on my laptop. Something kinda like rsync (which I guess I COULD use).

Anyway. Back to Radio. I think I’m going to see what interesting uses I can come up with for it, maybe another blog is in the making.

Once upon a time there was a meme named Ivan. Joi Ito has written about his adventures in weblog space. It’s a neat little read for someone who likes playing with all these weblog things.

Oh my I think I might be ill. Tyee posts about a heart attack conveniently packaged for storage in your freezer. This has got to be one of the more disturbing food items anywhere. From the page:

A stench exhumed from the microwave – it was like nothing I’ve smelled before. It was the kind of odor that had me preparing to lift the wallet off the four-week-old corpse I was about to find. But this stench! This stench was no corpse! This stench was breakfast!

Ew.

Okay, this is a bit of an informal poll. How many of you out there who like popcorn pop your own? On the stove? How many just get microwave? Hot Air? (Does anyone use those anymore?)

This just came up because I was chatting with some people the other day and everyone was shocked when I said I popped it on the stove. I just think it comes out so much better that way.

Here’s a picture of the world at night. It appears to be pretty old, but I hadn’t seen it before (probably something everyone has seen but me). Wow. I’d love to get a huge poster of that. (actually, it looks like you can get one very similar to it online).