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 We must be approaching land now because the television is coming back. We had Sky with Irish adverts, and a few other channels for the first couple of days until we sailed out of the European satellite beams. Then, Aljazeera turned up for a couple of days, which seemed a bit odd. I don't know why they broadcast to the mid-Atlantic. Now I get my first experience for many years of American television. It's practically unwatchable. I tried to watch a bit of 'Austin Powers' earlier but it had five and a half minutes of adverts for every eleven minutes of the film. This is the American version of CNN, which really does look like a budget television station. When they do eventually tear themselves away from advertising, they seem to just re-broadcast other news channels with yet more captions. This, of course, is a report on the long-awaited Gordon Brown inaugural bombings, which so far seem to have been a bit of a wash-out. It looks as if people have just made some kind of half-hearted attempt to blow a few things up because they knew that the security services were expecting it. Interestingly, I read a blog a while ago written by somebody who had been on the QM2 in 2005 as part of a round-the world trip by boat and train. The news was all about bombs in London when the television reappeared on that crossing. UTC Time: 15:41, Saturday 30 June 2007 Local Time: 13:41, Saturday 30 June 2007 Estimate of longitude: 51° 38' 25.19" W = -51.640330° Estimate of latitude: 42° 0' 26.75" N = 42.007430° Possible error on position estimate: 5000 metres | |