Archive for July 10th, 2006

Mon 10 July 2006 - In the beginning

Posted in Net — Daniel @ 10:56pm

Before there was this blog on danielbowen.com, it was on toxiccustard.com. And before it was a blog at all, it was an email list.

And actually the email list still exists, sending out the weekly extract of this blog, as well as the Guide to Australia (when I get around to updating it) and News You Had To Have (which has become my weird news blog), along with some headlines from Geekrant. One day I also hope to update the Great Vomits page.

The 800th edition of the weekly email is going out tonight. I must say, way back in 1990 when it started, I had no idea I’d still be doing it all these years later.

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Mon 10 July 2006 - Planet Earth

Posted in TV — Daniel @ 9:42pm

Watched some of that Planet Earth doco last night. Really wanted to see the water-wading monkeys featured in the promo. So much so that at one point I shouted at the TV in my best Jerry Macguire voice* “Show me the monkey!” But I had to do some other stuff away from the TV, so I may have missed them. Or maybe they’ll be in later episodes.

*Which isn’t actually up to much

David Attenborough was narrating, of course. It wouldn’t be the same without him. I wonder if they could sample his voice now, so after he passes away, the Beeb can keep doing documentaries with him digitally narrating? After all, they did that with John Mellion and the Vic Bitter adverts.

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