Month: February 2007
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Commenting
OK. I’ve been playing around with the commenting system on this site again. I know that in the past it’s been a bit of a pain, and it’s down to me to publish comments when I finally get around to seeing them. I’ve used a plugin called CommentChallenge by Jay Allen to force you to…
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White House Printer
Well according to 24, I’ve got the same printer as the White House! It does print lovely photos, and I highly recommend it, but I’d have thought that big offices would be more likely to have lasers rather than inkjets…
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DRM Again
A bit more on DRM. Sorry. It’s interesting that at about the same time as Steve Jobs becomes a sudden convert to going DRM-free, the BBC Trust reports back its conclusions to the BBC’s on-demand proposals and in particular the iPlayer. One of the key things they want the BBC to ensure is that DRMd…
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Sky’s New Tactics
First Sky announces on Virgin Media’s launch day that they’re pulling off Freeview and encrypting their channels with their own box to serve premium content. Now we learn that Virgin Media cable customers were shown this advert over the weekend. It suggests that Virgin Media (or “ntl:Virgin” as the ad would have it) is “doubting”…
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A Couple of Great Articles This Morning
I’m still struggling with my free Chinese Phrasebook that came with this morning’s Times (if you bought it in a WH Smith), but in the meantime here are two excellent pieces from today’s Guardian. First up is a G2 cover story on the Gillian McKeith. Now I’ve never seen an episode of You Are What…
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Annoying Beyond Belief…
Think of the two most annoying and irritating people you can. Really, really irritating people. We’re talking the kind of people that make you long for the sound of fingernails on a blackboard. Got them? Now check out the back of this week’s Review section of the Independent on Sunday. Here are the two people…
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Tag
Via Velorution, I loved this short film: The music’s still a temp track seemingly, and there’s an ealier cut (in colour) also on YouTube. It reminds me of a great French short called Argent Content featuring rollerskating bank robbers. Lots of bullet cam shots and plenty of central London in this video.
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Sky on Freeview
Well. Very interesting news about Sky getting properly into the Freeview act. Sky currently has three channels on Freeview that show Sky News, Sky Sports News and Sky Three. The first two are as you’d expect, but the third was essentially created for the Freeview platform to highlight Sky One shows a little later. So…
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Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
You may have noticed it snowed today. At least it did if you live in England or Wales. Here’s a photo of said snow that I took earlier. Anyway, the local news on BBC1 this evening had the usual travel chaos/schools closed story that’s par for the course on days like today. But it ended…
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How Many Video Players On A Single Page Can You Get?
Well? The answer according to the new-look mirror.co.uk is three! One on the left, one on the right, and a big one in the middle! A word of advice – don’t try playing them all at once. The planets get into alignment or something and bad things happen… Roy Greenslade at Mediaguardian shares his thoughts…
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Radio Gaming
Lots of excitement from Unique about them getting Chris Tarrant back onto commercial radio to host a series of programmes called Small Price 2 Pay. Tarrant is quoted as saying: “I am very excited about this new project for digital radio, where once again I find myself in the hot seat, giving away big cash…
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Google Maps On Your Mobile
Google recently introduced an application for Windows Mobile phones that lets you view Google Maps neatly and quickly on your mobile phone. This is a great little app which is wonderfully useful. No longer will I have to remember to printout a paper map before I set off somewhere new. On GPRS, the maps load…