Stupid Rubbish by Dave Jeffery
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Mark a Polo
This post covers several of my favourite subjects, so it will ramble all over the place. Apologies for that, but here we go… Sticking some kind of disc over the centre of an onscreen clock mechanism is a very practical solution to hiding the rather ugly screw that holds the hands in place. You could…
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Wrestle Poodles and Win!
BBC Television, right from the very beginning, were always keen on outside broadcast television “firsts”. They wanted to break every limitation they perceived to be on what television could technically achieve. Therefore first live broadcast from the Alexandra Palace gardens/Wimbledon/Lords/the Olympics/a hovercraft/Concorde/the Old Man of Hoy/France/the USA/Narnia would guarantee television coverage. Growing up as a…
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Whirled Off Sport
Another bit of revision to remind me of stuff I used to know how to do. There were two Olympic events held in 1972; the Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan and the ill-fated summer Olympics held in Munich, West Germany. These would have been the first Olympics shown in colour on BBC1, although the 1968…
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Prospero of the great globe itself
A diary of my return to the world of typography, for the first time in many, many years. Just before the first edition of Wogan, on 7pm the 18th February 1985, BBC1 introduced it’s first computer generated symbol. It was called the Computer Originated World or COW. Of course BBC2 had already had a computer…
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Getting Shirty
I don’t spend an awful lot on clothes, as they don’t interest me much. My wife makes fun of me because I wear everything until it utterly wears out, and I am quite happy to sew things or fix broken zip fasteners in order to make things last longer. I almost exclusively wear work-wear from…
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Presents Continuous
Explaining how I recreated the ABC Weekend Television start-up from the morning of Christmas Eve 1967.
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A Maze in Telly
How I arranged the 4-Square Maze theme for an orchestra in MuseScore 4.
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Remember the name
A look back at some bits and bobs I did as a favour for the late, and much missed, Rob Milburn.
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A Christmas Card
Explanation of how I created a Trumptonshire/BBC Presentation themed Christmas card for David Harper.
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Drawing the Curtains
A description of how I recreated the curtain that was used for magic buttons on Westward Television’s “Gus Honeybun’s Birthdays”
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Strings and Things
My efforts to reproduce the theme tunes to the BBC’s “Micro Live” and “Computers In Control” in different ways.
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Lemons Parking
A look at what the ground-breaking First Report/News at One theme would sound like if it had been played by an orchestra.