Text on Text

This is another post without a vast amount of news. It's just that school and bastardly GCSE's are probably going to keep me quite buzy over the next year or at least trying to avoid them will. There probably won't be alot of updates. And though this blog doesn't accomplish much by way of hits or regular readers, although my sitemetre suggests their are a few, it is the ONLY regulary updated site about teletext on the internet. Speaking of which one of the good things that may come out of the next school year is properly learnng how to create a website. Summer ambitions rarley come to anything for me I'm afarid and I failed triumphuntly to create textontext.tk. Firstly they didn't send me a conformation e-mail, so I had to wait a week before applying again which I didn't do. Thats most likly because I knew I'd balls it up anyway. So theres a past,present and futre of this blog. If I do get around to creating a website I think I'll keep the blog as a running news service.

Though theres little to no news about teletext coming forward from the medium itself the always weird and wonderful internet(is that offically a cliche yet?) is a litttle more forthcoming. I've a few more links to teletext sites to add but by far the oddest is Teletext Babez. The sexiest teletext pages around, or at least in Germany. And it's good old fashioned teletext, blocky and seven colours. So if you've ever wondered what a what a pair of breasts or an appearntly sexy ass would look like trasmitted in limited pixels heres your chance. My speakers aren't working right now but the site says in comes with a suitably sexy soundtrack. Well, I paraphrase. Prehaps more weird than wonderful. And prehaps disturbing fetish would be a better description than weird. But live and let live.

I also found MTV text live lurking around. Again I'll post a link at somepoint but it's basicly a giant ad.

Well see you sometime. Read Teletext.Bye

I can't call this post anything else because theres little news in the world of teletext. I mean at present, but it's also true as genral statement. I happened to have lost my TV remote, which doesn't help as I can't access teletext without it. I'll see if I can get access to someone else tomorrow and have a good look through though.

I added a new link. This ones to statistics about teletext from a remote part of teletext's website. Essentialy it seems to be trying to sell it's service to advertisers but some of the stats are quite interesting. Who knew that more people watch teletext in a week than eat mars bars? One of many gems. 18 million people a week use Teletext by the way. And thats only the company Teletext, eg doesn't include Ceefax. And thats alredy over 1/4 of the population.

Slightly old news here, it's another statement from our favorite government waste of money since the millinium dome, SwichCo. The statement was actually issued over a year ago. It asks for a full review of teletext services in this new media age(Their words.) I'd love to hear one from SwichCo, just to laugh at the pretenious lanuage but alas,we'll probably never see it.

Also on Googlings(I wonder if I can copyright that?) looking for news I came across a 65 page report on the recent digital swichover trail in, eh, somewhere. Unfoutunitly it's not loading very well on my computer and it's 65 pages long so it probably won't get read. But I'll post a link to it so anyone with a super computer and too much time on their hands can read it. I have manged to read a little. By searching Ceefax rather than Teletext you avoid all the tedious guff about the coperate company ceefax. I advise everyone to read as it's oddly humorous but I'll try to shorten it down. Fears about loss of Ceefax and Teletext largly unfounded. Many households complained that their is less information(correctly.) We attrubite this to them forgetting to press the down button.That sentence is genuine. Theres stupid people involved in this trail somewhere, though I'm not sure which side.

Well I may have to check out new remotes tomorrow as I've no idea where mine's got to and I'm missing my teletext. I'm off to bed, though I may call in on Ceefax.tv on the way.

A short post today. Just wanted to acknowledge that the music section on Ceefax has returned to it's former glory.(sic) So the infamous entertainment cut backs may not be as drastic as once feared.

Also I've noticed in the last few days that the much vaunted BBC i has been faltering somewhat. I rarely use it but when I do, usual because I can't find the other remote, I notice that often when entering a number and pressing select the service simply disappears. Annoying. I just remembered the other reason I rarely write about digital text. It's very hard to describe without descending into meaningless buzz words. The main reason being my overpowering dis-like for the contraption.

I keep forgetting to mention this but the poll didn't work. I'm not sure anyone noticed but if they did and got confused and angry and the error message, well, I wish I could give you those minutes back by without my time machine it's not possible. Until I obtain £500trillionn pounds here is msincerestsapologizeses. Please forgive that last sentence it is a combenation of overtype mode I can't remove and a rather poor spellchecker.