To my UK readers, this has nothing to do with pretend marathon runners with dodgy 70s moustaches…
I was watching one of the Swiss satellite TV channels, when a strange advert came on. It was a music video, with some a very distracting women, and some firefighters. All singing un un huit. Back in Britain, numbers starting 118 are the replacements for our old BT directory enquiry service; as it turns out, there was a connection.
Anyway, more on that later, for now, check this out…
As it turns out, since France followed the European trends to have 118 (or at least 118 xxx) as the directory enquiries number, the Swiss Fire Service has been receiving a lot of calls for people wanting phone numbers, rather than report a fire. So they made a video
Losha’s 18th birthday is today, so a B_I_G c nomrazh denya to him.
Coincidentally, he bought round a new satellite receiver for us. We originally though the dish on the roof had been knocked off course, then a sat. guy thought the LNB itself was knackered, but it now appears the STB was broken.
Anyway more details later on, as I’m now out to join Losha and his parents for a celebratory meal…
During the last month or so, I have been contacted by a number of people, all related to Kazakhstan strangely enough. First we had someone who has built a plane and called it Berkut (which is also the name of a vodka over here), an English guy moving to Astana who wanted some more information about satellite TV and supermarkets, an Australian guy who is moving here in December, with his Russian wife, and finally an Indian (apologies if incorrect, his surname sounds Hindu to me) architect, living in New York who designed the local Cinema City complex (he wanted some photos of it, as his current ones weren’t too good).
I’m hopefully passing the vodka on to an American friend, so the plane builder can celebrate the flight with a suitably named drink, we’re looking forward to meeting some new faces here in Astana at some point, and the architect has been put in touch with Tom, who has better camera skills than me, so should have some better shots than those captured last night at Tiflis.
Anyway, they all made contact through finding this blog, so a big thanks to the search engines out there who are spidering away
The Russian language version of BBC Radio will no longer be accessible via FM radio. Many commentators have noticed this occurring prior to Russian Parliamentary elections, and a Presidential election next year, when Mr Putin will want a little more control over what is stated about him and his policies. Although the Russian station that broadcast the BBC’s output is denying any political involvement in the decision making process, two other stations recently stopped broadcasting the BBC programs, and complained that everyone knows the BBC’s output is simply the UK’s propaganda machine. This raises an interesting question for me - if the bosses truly believed that, then why did they originally make the deal in the first place? One piece of information the BBC article neglects to mention is that the Russian language service is still also available on satellite, at the very least by people pointed at the Hotbird satellite.
PS I know this has been put in the Satellite TV category, but I do not have a separate section for Satellite Radio…
A couple of months ago I posted about Charlie from Lost, or rather the actor that played that role. I included a couple of screen shots from an earlier role (Geoffrey Shawcross) he played in the ‘Hetty Wainthropp Investigates’ drama. Today I caught another episode in which Dominic Monaghan looks more like a young man than a teenager, slowly bridging the gap, looks wise, between Geoffrey and Charlie. Anyway, the shots are below.
Hmm, seeing the pictures all together, maybe it was just the haircut, but watching the Hetty Wainthropp episode today, the cars looked a little more modern, and the character now has a love interest, so I am assuming there was at least a series or two between the episodes. The BBC Prime Satellite TV channel seems to do that quite a lot with their shows - jump around, and not follow chronological order. ‘My Family’ is the most obvious example of that - people keep getting younger and older, moving out of the house to live on their own, then the next day everyone is younger and living together again. Can’t really complain, it is still just brilliant to have any English language comedy and drama to watch, without having to download them
According to a BBC article, Britain has ordered four diplomatic staff to leave the country, in retaliation for Russia refusing to allow extradition of the main suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, Andrei Lugovoi.
Russia claims that such behaviour is immoral which is an interesting phrase to use. I can not help wondering what the original Russian word used was, and whether it has any other translations commonly used from it. I saw piece on this issue a couple of days ago on Russia Today, a satellite TV channel we pick up. The station appears to do little to dispel the rumours of high levels of Kremlin policy extension through the media in its portrayal of Western governments and non-criticism of the top dogs over in Moscow.
This week has seen some more stormy weather, and each time the skies get too cloudy, our dish is unable to pick up the signal from the Hotbird satellites. Apparently coverage for Satellite TV is a lot better in America, where the weather does not seem to effect the quality of the signal so strongly. The DealsOnSatelliteTV website has a pretty comprehensive listing of the similarities and differences between the Dish Network and DirecTV packages, and why both are apparently a better choice over cable. Reading the site reminded me of a few articles on my satellite TV site.
Anyway, for links and information on the latest great deals available, head on over now.
One of the unfortunate things about having European Satellite TV over here in Kazakhstan is the abundance of celebrity gossip programmes.
Back in Britain, I would gladly go and do some hoovering rather than listen to the latest news on who was doing who, and where they were seen.
Now, however, I often seem to find it on in the background, especially when I am working on my sites.
So, is hollywood gossip contagious? Perhaps once you are hooked, there is no escape?
Have no fear if that is the case, you’ll find CelebrityGossip.com carry all the news you won’t be reading until next week’s magazine, and you can search for gossip by date, or the celebrities involved.
If Britney Spears almost ‘accidentally’ flashing a nipple again thrills you, news of Julia Robert’s baby boy is something you like to talk about around the water cooler, or the judgement in David Hasselhoff’s divorce case is interest of you (Steve, are you reading this ? ?), then head on over now.
If you think of any new features that could even further improve the site, the staff seem to be very open to suggestions, and if you happen to already be a member at Soaps.com, you will find your login works just as well here!
I have just realised that a lot of the categories on this blog have been ignored somewhat recently, I’ll be trying to add to them over the next couple of weeks. Let me know what you think, or if there is any particular area that you would like to see more detail in.
Hopefully, Aquariums, Aromatherapy, Bikinis, Bracelets, Hoodia Plants, Clocks, Glycolic Acid, Grills, Heart, Low Carbohydrates, Pilates, Saffron, Satellite TV, Watches & Yoga will all be receiving a lot more posts soon.
