Text on Text

A long delay as blogger insists I have forgotten my user-name and my password. To recover had to find an email account I hadn't used in ages. Still I probably won't have posted anyway.

Indeed it's been a quite start to the year for teletext, and I only tried to get into blogger again a couple of days ago. Why? Only an endorsement of the service from the highest office in the land! It's long been rumored that Tony Blair was a teletext fan but in avoiding a question at a recent press coference he confirmed it. Asked about the the no-doubt-soon-to-be-dubbed Rockgate cricis(UK reignites good ole days of cold war with spy rock placed in the middle of a Moscow park. How interested are the British government in tramp urine and russian squrills?) Tone replied with "Look, I only saw it myself on teletext this morning." So there you go. Reason enough to vote for the war-mongering slimeball? I leave that to your consinsce. I don't really dislike Tony that much, I had originally wrote scumbag.

I had originally delayed this post to find something else teletext related, which I've now entirley fogotten.But a quick google seacrh did find something new. An interesting article on the "Death of Teletext." I say new, it actully looks a bit dated but I've never read it before. Digital teletext now does use page numbers, though is still beset by other problems, which I've likly said before. The main one is that it has tendecy to disappear for no reason every now and again. Sky Text is appalingly slow, it has actully got worse recently. The BBC insist that certain items come with video segaments that are enriely unrelated. I mean when your reading a newspaper they don't force you to watch a DVD do they? Mini-rant over. I'll post a link in the sidebar to the article but as they have a tendecy not to work I'll also post the adress here: http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/techmark/teletext.php