Around the world

Cricketer Shane Warne arrived in Australia yesterday - considerably later than photos of him leaving the overseas (London?) airport were published. It's amazing, isn't it ... how quickly information can be transmitted around the world these days? But try telling that to Australian television stations who are "rushing to air" programs soon after they are broadcast in the US. This haste has been billed by one station as "streamed direct from the US" - which is why it's odd that, given the almost instantaneous nature of "streaming" in technology terms, that it then takes them up to two weeks to actually broadcast the "streamed" content. The move to have a shorter gap between US and Australian broadcast is to counter the increasing (illegal) practice of people downloading shows when they are broadcast overseas, rather than waiting the (used to be) up to 6 months [sometimes never] for them to turn up on our screens.
Of course, my big lament is even missing shows when they are broadcast - because I didn't actually listen when someone said "Did you see they've got a new series of Night Stalker out" and by the time it actually registered (some weeks later) that this is something I did want to watch, I tuned in just in time for the final episode. Hmmm. Looks like a visit to amazon.com for me.