I haven't taken very many pics yet and have posted even fewer (sleep deprivation). But so far I'm impressed with this city.
London feels modern and very old-world at the same time. And the folks at the BBC I've met so far are very clued in and in many ways far ahead of the broadcast establishments in the US--including NPR.
More later. It's just after midnight here and I've only slept about 2 hours in the last day. Big day tomorrow.
Posted by flickr at July 22, 2005 04:05 PM
The BBC is way liberal, but probably not as much as NPR (which is socialist).
Dear Jeremy
How are you there > Hope you enjoying life in London. Had u been there before did u feel any difference after the incidents..
Sweet! Pretty nice. Picked an interesting time to visit politically. Would be nice to hear your thoughts on that subject.
lingo help
chips = french fries
rashers = thin slices of bacon (usually for breakfast)
"full english" = traditional fried up english breakfast
petrol = gasoline
footpath = sidewalk
I worked for the Beeb for about a year as a Perl dev. Nice place - good people. I'm curious why you're visiting them. While I was there the app I put together for them ran on Oracle which was a dog (Oracle, not my app :). There was a lot of talk about migrating to MySQL or PostgreSQL.
I'm guessing they've decided to migrate to MySQL?
Mark.
ps: Say hi to Damian in Ops - he was the Oracle nazi while I was there.
Dear Jeremy,
How is the life going in LONDON. Hope every thing is normal now..
Pawan Bahuguna
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BBC is definitely one of my favourite press agencies.