The 007 stage at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire has been rebuilt less than a year after it was destroyed by fire, reports trade paper Screen Daily.

The structure was demolished last year after the fire caused the roof to cave in, damaging a set from Casino Royale.

Its replacement is the same size as before, but with more usable space.

http://www.007stage.com/

A fire has swept through a Moscow nightclub, killing 10 people and injuring several others, police in the Russian capital have said.

Witnesses said the blaze broke out when a performer staging a nightly "fire show" inadvertently set his clothes alight, official said.

City prosecutors have begun an inquiry into safety at the 911 club.

It is the latest in a series of disasters that has highlighted Russia's poor enforcement of safety regulations.

Officials said first accounts suggested that the blaze broke out when a performer accidentally set his clothing on fire. Flames spread to a large container of spirits and then the nightclub's stage caught fire.

its sunday must be Stockholm

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/21/net_neutrality_a_monkey_hangers_guide/

Yesterday, Westminster eForum staged the first debate in the UK on "Net Neutrality" - chaired by former DTI minister Alun Michaels and Shadow DTI Charles Hendry. El Reg gave a brief presentation. Here it is, with selected highlights, and a collection of external links for further reading.

more monkey hanging

And there was me thinking about changing to Vodafone....I think I'm going to be thinking twice about that after reading this.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/14/vodafone_wont_connect/

Vodafone is still refusing to officially recognise the Connect union, which is so keen to represent its members it has taken Vodafone to the government's Central Arbitration Committee to force recognition.

Over half the 200 people working at Vodafone's "Technology: Regional Operations North" office are already members of Connect, which means recognition can be forced on Vodafone to allow collective bargaining on pay, hours, and holiday.

Connect has been fighting for recognition since November last year, and recently went to ACAS with Vodafone in an attempt to negotiate a deal, without success.

Vodafone does not recognise unions in the UK, though its operations in Germany and Ireland do have representation. Vodafone said in a statement it has elected to "follow the statutory recognition route" - which translates as refusing to recognise any union until the law tells it it has to.

"Vodafone continues to value open and direct communication with its employees" - The key word here being "direct", as in not via collective bargaining.

Union membership in high-technology industries has, traditionally, not been very high - when employees can change jobs every month there seems little cause for collective bargining. But as the industry grows up and consolidation constrains the job market, union membership starts to look more attractive.

Connect is currently recognised by BT, O2 and Kingston Communications, though it has members at most of the comms companies, so we can expect similar disputes over the next few years. ®

Cable, Phone Companies Watch Warily

A coalition of big technology companies wants to bring high-speed Internet access to consumers in a new way: over television airwaves. Key to the project ...   more »

This is what Sime posted


I love the use of the midget, Nice touch Sime....METAL!!!!

Says it all.....

More bright Ideas it says, well I think a bright idea would be to turn off the lights at 3:16am on a Sunday morning and save us all from more light polution.

Most of the time I've always walked around Zone 1 as its the quickest way to get around central london, you don't have to queue up, get delayed and sqash onto a packed train. well someone has come up with a map showing how long it takes to walk between tube stops, you can see the map here

Also there is the "Sometimes it quicker to walk map"

my oven can't count....oh dear as the KLF once said what time is now .....00:00......how CAN I TRUST IT OR DO WE HAVE TO DO YEAR 8 MATHS with it....sorry for the caps...

its amazing what you find on the interweb

I took the camera to one of my fav places Tate Modern, to try it out and see what kind of shots I could get out of th camera, of course I didn't read the manual before going out so I had fun in low light and getting something I liked. Well this is one f the shots I liked
This is a shot a few hours before the lunar eclipse...

What can we do on a slow news day, how about some stereotyping, I want to be so EMO, this is  posted by Boo so I should give her credit for covering my laptop in coffee when i first saw it

Many years ago, well ok..in 1998 I made a video for the band Automatic....they were a load of old punks from Newcastle making great tunes and were a great bunch of lads. Well I finally got around to encoding it and its down below. A small bit of history. Enjoy

Automatic - Red Eyes On

Add to My Profile |   More Videos

New Device Warning.



I needed a compact camera to talk to gigs and have on me at all times, it was only luck that I had my big digital Canon SLR with me when the Warren Street Bomb went off, so I was looking at compact camera and looked at the Canon IXUS series and the Fujifilm E900 but in the end I thought I'd better do it properly. Every news photographer I respect at some point the classic picture was taken with a Leica. From the flaming napalm on South Vietnameseof Phan Thi Kim Phuc by the South Vietmanese to the photo take by Kevin Carter in Sudan they were all taken with a Leica, now its my time to join the Bang Bang Club.

http://www.leica-camera.us/photography/compact_cameras/d-lux_3/

This was in the Metro this morning, it feels like everyone had the same joke, if only i could of copyrighted it. What I posted it http://blog.kking.co.uk/blog/_archives/2007/3/1/2773313.html

This was in the indie, not so much a joke but you know what they are implying.

Every action has a equal and opposite reaction

HM Customs says it has discovered a large distillery in Cardiff, capable of producing thousands of litres of vodka.

Singer and TV presenter Charlotte Church confirms she is expecting a baby with her boyfriend, Gavin Henson.

I think the other Mr King would approve of this story that was found by Damien one of our Dev Guys. He found it on Tom's Hardware Guide. Its a classic case of the geek going too far.


"Using your laptop while driving can be hazardous to your health as one Californian man found out. The 28-year-old man died after his Toyota Corolla slammed head on into a Hummer on Highway 99 north of Sacramento. California Highway Patrol Commander Scott Silsbee told UPI that the man was probably lost control because he was typing on a laptop.

Despite the crash, the laptop was still powered on and was plugged into the cigarette lighter. The occupants of the Hummer were slightly hurt and were treated and released.

Avid1 Media Composer Promo


Oh how we loved those Rmags and MO disks....


Well that was then and this is now...

I took MSN's Geek Test and apparently I'm a:

Well balanced individual: So what if you answered hell yes to some of the questions!? You are in touch with your inner geek and you aren’t ashamed to admit it - but there are limits…

Step away from th gadgets Kevin!

Something caught me tonight while looking at something else on amazon.com and amazon.co.uk, it was the crazy pricing that is being quote for Windows Vista Upgrades on both sites. I've included a screen shot to show you what I mean, the top site is amazon.com and the bottom amazon.co.uk.



Conversions at todays exchange rate of £1.00 = $1.95. If you did a straight conversion the UK prices for both would be:

78.92 UKP for Home Premium, Differnce of £56.02 which is 42% increase in price
128.11 UKP for Ultimate, Difference of £86.88 which is 40% increase in price.

How can Amazon/Microsoft don't know who is to blame on this but i think I can guess as I see that the marketplace price, justify the near 1:1 conversion rate. Do you think that microsoft forget that you don't just replace a $ sign with a £ sign in prices.

Thankfully the OEM prices aren't as bad and it looks like much more of a deal at mircodirect they are:

£77.32 for Windows Vista-Home Premium 32Bit
£121.01 for WindowsVistaUltimate32Bit
were as the US OEM Version are:

Home Premium: $120.89
Vista Ultimate $205.31

Which are much more like the US upgrade prices, Ok you can't transfer license like you can with full retail versions but I don't think I've ever transfered a personal license I know I have at work, so OEM can be a steal, it will install on a preinstalled system which I have done and it worked off the bat, see blog passim.

So is this a case of Micro$oft getting greedy or another case of rip off Britian.

http://www.bbdo.co.uk/blog/archives/335
background http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/6382279.stm

While helping a friend out with the problem that he bought a S-Video to Scart cable and not a Scart to S-Video cable I came across a new site that I thought I'd better tell you all about. Its Pinouts.RU there in a link to the site on the button below
For many years I've used the Hardware Book http://www.hardwarebook.info/ i remember when it was a standalone app, both have a wealth of infomation and great for getting you out of trouble.

For some time now I've been using Google Analytics to compile and check stats involving my blog including what search words bring people to this place, not in any crazy way you understand by more curiosity. Normally the logs are pretty boring just lots of searches on techie words or parts numbers that I've blogged about but sometime there is something that like seeing a piece of gold in all the coal you go  "EH, what the WTF?" So without much further ado I present this little piece of Google heaven. Someone searched on the Internet and ended up at my blog because they were searching for:



Yes if like me you went WTF! who in there right mind would put that in a search engine, of course its too broad your going to need to narrow down your search criteria. maybe by county or some such qualifier, but your never going to find it on your first hit, probably need to check Google Images .

But back to Google Analytics and the server weblog, like Sherlock Homes I can tell our pervert lives in Nottingham, uses MSN to search on a Windows XP machine with IE6 and has NTL as a service provider. But Kevin you say how did he or she (yes I'm not going to be sexist, perverts come in all shapes and sizes) end up on your blog its not like my site in the centre for Gaelic Porn or that I have girls and boys with shamrocks covering the most interment places on every page. So a quick look back at the logs and the pages that brought the pervert to this site were::

Vista Content Protection Follow up: were I mention about a guy who owns the 'core' of the Vista Operating System
New Statesman Blog: post were I mentioned about John Prescott being caught 'shagging'
Reaction to Saddam's Execution post were I mentioned the 'Irish' government statement on Saddam's Death

The word hard didn't bring anything up, I'm so glad that it was a nice bit of techie, left wing politics and got the smut seekers interest just maybe they stopped for two seconds and read the site before they were off to the next site on the list. Come on Kev whats the changes of that.....

BTW if your looking for hard core Irish porn then look no further than here here or here
PS. All Safe for Work

How extreme were conservative commentators in their remark this year? How about calls to nuke the Middle East and an allegation that a "gay ... mafia" used the congressional page program as its own "personal preserve." Right-wing rhetoric documented by Media Matters for America

http://mediamatters.org/items/200612220013

well trackbacks seem to be pointless so I gone and turned them off. I was spending most of my time deleting and blocking lots and lots of trackback spam from pill pushers and porn merchents. So its got to the point of saying no more....so I've turned them off

KNIVES......GRRRRR!!!!

Only in Wales could you have a platform 0

Broadcasters the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five, along with manufacturers Sony, Samsung, Toshiba and Alba, and Dixons owner DSGI have begun lobbying UK regulator Ofcom to guarantee bandwidth on ...   more »

Well  bit the bullet and instaled Windows Vista Upgrade on my MCE PC I use as a media centre in the bedroom. What can I say but it installed like a dream, I took note of the warning that the driver for my Netgear WG111T USB wireless adapter would not be installed off the bat so I went out to netgear site and downloaded the vista beta driver for my adapter, as you can see by me typing on the web it worked.

Netgear Beta drivers for Vista are here (click on the check box to display them)

I done a flickr set for the upgrade process http://www.flickr.com/photos/akira_kev/sets/72157594527811053/

I'm more than happy with the pocess it was so simple, if you just take account of the warnings it should be seemless.

The first boot is always the worst

Well I'm delayed at chicago o'hare so I thought I'd upload a shot I took on my photo on the way over. its a shot  over the wing into the horizon

A few weeks again a question came up on 'the List' regarding Vista Content Protection so like a good boy I forwarded it the man on the inside James. Well he's posted a response and here it is from his Blog.

Big Brother's Jade is now the most unpopular Goodie, breaking Bill Oddie's 20 year run.

Can you pop me a connector on the end of this cable?
What do you think Phil are you man enough?

Windows Home Server promo site,

 the Center for Digital Amnesia Awareness

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1984496,00.html

Millions of Britons who visit the United States are to have their fingerprints stored on the FBI database alongside those of criminals, in a move that has outraged civil rights groups.

The Observer has established that under new plans to combat terrorism, the US government will demand that visitors have all 10 fingers scanned when they enter the country. The information will be shared with intelligence agencies, including the FBI, with no restrictions on their international use. more on link

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To the people who say "if you're innocent you have nothing to fear. I would gladly have my ten toe prints taken too if only to be able to step foot in the 'Land of the Free" I present this:



original graphic by Winjer 2004

If bribery is so good for jobs, why should it be a crime? writes Mark Thomas in the New Statesman Blog

The war on terror has been used to justify many things from the Brian Haw law (to make protesters get permits) to illegally invading Iraq. It is indeed a small wonder that John Prescott when caught shagging didn’t opt for the “war on terror” defence.

I for one would pay money to see him declaring, “We have it on reliable intelligence information that unless I put my penis in the woman’s vagina then terrorists will detonate a nuclear dirty bomb device. In London, quite possibly at Battersea Dogs Home or somewhere else with a large collection of vulnerable pets.” more here

I don't normally praise The Sun out of habit,but they have come up with a classic story... http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007000415,00.html

Something that we've known for a long time but that London's Tube system is the world's most expensive train journey.

I posted a story about Saddam Dog being Executed last week,

I have now found that the story is FAKE.......the picture has been faked

The photo is found on DOGS DESERVE BETTER website which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to freeing the chained dog, and bringing our ‘best friend’ into the home and family.

warning distressing pictures
the orginal picture is on http://www.dogsdeservebetter.com/pictures.html

the orginal picture is here
http://www.dogsdeservebetter.com/Assets/HangingDog4.jpg

Sorry.

You can see it here

but why he used a copy of Rainbow - Long Live Rocknroll to do the art, does anyone admit to having that in their collection? But Kev you know it from the record number he left on the picture....Duh Busted

After my post the other day about Naseem Hamed being stripped of MBE and wanting Jeffery Archer to go the same way, well Steve Ayland sent me this petition that is on the goverment's Number 10 site and it is a petiton to have Jeffery Archer stripped of his peerage. So get down and sign up and tell your friends.

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Strip Jeffery Archer of his peerage. 

Submitted by Steve Ayland – Deadline to sign up by: 03 July 2007

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Archer-Peerage/

Kodak has a sense of humour

I'm posting this a bit for person reference but the graph above shows the stats from my first six months blogging,

Top Articles in December were:
Saddam Dog Executed: http://blog.kking.co.uk//blog/_archives/2006/12/31/2609333.html
Courier Companies: http://blog.kking.co.uk/blog/Technology/_archives/2006/7/14/2117989.htm
If you thinking of using Parcels2go, think twice: http://blog.kking.co.uk/blog/_archives/2006/12/18/2582255.html

Naseem Hamed stripped of MBE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/6222389.stm

Former world boxing champion Naseem Hamed has been stripped of his MBE after serving a jail term for dangerous driving.

32-year-old Hamed served 16 weeks of a 15-month term in Moorland Prison, Doncaster for causing serious injury to Anthony Burgin in a high-speed crash in May 2005.

An official notice said the Queen had directed that Hamed's name be erased from the Order of the British Empire.

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So does that mean we can get rid of these too?

Lord Brocket - convicted of insurance fraud, having dismantled and hidden four of the Ferraris, claiming them to be stolen.
Lord Archer - Convicted of perjury and perverting the course of justice and sent to prision for 4 years..
Dame Shirley Porter - convicted in the high court of running an council Building Stable Communities policy that was completely illegal and ordered to pay £27,000,000.back to Westminster Council
Sir Clive Thompson - Chairman involved in the collapse of the Farepak Christmas hamper company

Or sorry I forgot it doesn't work like that does it...if it did the honour system would be fair and you would not be able to throw them at members of your family for doing what they done since birth...ie: prat around on a horse