“Back in August, Top Gear boss Andy Wilman and I went to Edinburgh to give a talk to a room full of television types on how Top Gear was still breaking viewing figure records in its 14th series.

“Actually, it wasn’t a talk because, truth be told, neither Andy nor I have the first idea why Big Brother and Wife Swap all wither, but Top Gear continues to solider on. So we decided to make it a question and answer session.

“And here’s how the questions went. Why is there no woman presenter? Why are there always pretty girls standing around at the front of the audience? Why is half the viewing audience women? Why are there so few female stars in the reasonably priced car? Were we ever asked by the BBC to have a female presenter? Is the Top Gear office a club for boys or are there girls in there too?

“There were, in fact, so many questions about girls, that we ran out of time before anyone had a chance to ask us about the environment.

“The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian. Chalk and cheese, they reckon, works. But here we have Top Gear setting new records after six years using cheese and cheese. It confuses them.

“I tend not to draw distinctions between men and women, apart from in bed where you really do need to spot the differences. At work, girls are just people.”

(The full article can be found at http://www.topgear.com/uk/jeremy-clarkson/clarkson-women-2009-10)

With “The Upload”, I do want to have female commentary on the show; not only is a large chunk of our team female (including our advertising editor and our videography producer), but a remarkable percentage of our readership is female. My hope is to have many different female voices on the program — but I should point out that I’m essentially gender-neutral when it comes to the show. I care more about the personality than the body parts.

I love the show and listen to the whole thing. But I am starting to notice that the mail man looks pretty good in his tight shorts. So please mix it up a little.

3D technology was a fad. It always has been. Sadly it will take the same industry to accept it as a standard as the one that first pushed bluray over hddvd. I won’t say what industry it is, but it rhymes with corn.

On an unrelated note, is it just me, or does cubehouse sound like Yahtzee’s cousin that speaks at a reasonable pace?