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patentdragon...and don't get me started on these f**king ad banners with sound effects. I nearly crapped myself when one of those thrice-cursed things started ringing all of a sudden, and there was one occasion a year or two ago that I was wondering if my PC was picking up other people's phone calls when one ad banner started muttering to itself...
I'm kinda sensitive about these things because, way back in my early computing days, I was sitting up late playing some game or another, with my Amiga hooked up to the TV, and I'd just switched the machine off when mysterious voices, kinda like "Poltergeist" start coming through the TV...
There was a taxi outside, with what I can only assume was an iffy radio. Even so, I hate computers making unexpected noises.
I am going to start making a list of companies that use these frigging sound-banners, and I shall swear, right here and now, that they will never get any business from me. Especially if that sound is the F**KING Crazy Frog...
On A More Positive Note... there was an excellent programme on this morning (yes, I am in a position to watch morning TV) that went into considerable detail about the musical methods employed by The Beatles to revolutionise popular music. Normally, I have little time for programmes where "the arty set" show off how they "understand" art and music so much more than the rest of us, but this one didn't talk down to the viewer, and took its time explaining what it was trying to say, with plenty of examples.
I guess intelligent TV isn't dead - but then along comes "Desperate Housewives" or "B*g Br***er"...
I'm kinda sensitive about these things because, way back in my early computing days, I was sitting up late playing some game or another, with my Amiga hooked up to the TV, and I'd just switched the machine off when mysterious voices, kinda like "Poltergeist" start coming through the TV...
There was a taxi outside, with what I can only assume was an iffy radio. Even so, I hate computers making unexpected noises.
I am going to start making a list of companies that use these frigging sound-banners, and I shall swear, right here and now, that they will never get any business from me. Especially if that sound is the F**KING Crazy Frog...
On A More Positive Note... there was an excellent programme on this morning (yes, I am in a position to watch morning TV) that went into considerable detail about the musical methods employed by The Beatles to revolutionise popular music. Normally, I have little time for programmes where "the arty set" show off how they "understand" art and music so much more than the rest of us, but this one didn't talk down to the viewer, and took its time explaining what it was trying to say, with plenty of examples.
I guess intelligent TV isn't dead - but then along comes "Desperate Housewives" or "B*g Br***er"...
