I’ve been experiencing some annoying, if comical, problems with the Vodafone mobile phone network today. It’s been impossible to have conversations lasting more than a couple of minutes without suddenly being ‘switched’ into a phone call with a random stranger. At one point, I even tried to call a friend, but ended up listening to [...]
I bought a PVR (personal video recorder) a month or so ago, and thought I’d write briefly on how it has changed my TV viewing habits. Firstly, the PVR is basically a Freeview set-top box with a 160GB hard disk in it so that it can record tv. After some research, I went for the [...]
Have rediscovered last.fm over the past week, and it’s fab. I paid up for a few months of the £1.50 monthly subscription straight away, and have been enjoying the continuous stream of music I mostly like ever since. Today my first real personalised music chart was published, and made for some interesting findings – see [...]
Ben Metcalfe has written up a review of the BBC iMP, the technology that they’re developing which will allow UK users to download BBC programmes via P2P. I haven’t seen or tested the iMP (although I was one of the 30,000 who asked to be part of the trial), so what follows are just thoughts [...]
I’ve already written up a quick reaction to ‘Podcastcon’, the podcasting conference that took place on Saturday, but this is a more in-depth review of the day. I’ve already praised the conference for being very interesting and well-organised, so this entry is taking a more critical approach. 9:30am – Welcome Neil Dixon introduces the conference [...]
I’ve just edited my category/tag archive pages to only show the last 10 entries. The photoblog page was taking up far too much bandwidth, with hundreds of badly optimised jpegs in there. Unfortunately, there’s no easy way to do ‘next 10 entries’ in MT, so for now, you can’t go back any further in the [...]
On Saturday, I went to Open Tech 2005, a one-day conference about ‘technologies that anyone can have a go at’, supported by BBC Backstage. Like my lectures back at Uni, I didn’t bother to take notes, prefering to sit back and ‘take it in’, so the following thoughts are retrospective: 11:30am: Danny O’Brien, Living Life [...]
Breaking News. This is obviously a bit of a daft decision (will phone companies soon be responsible for defamation?), but I’m not sure what effect it’ll have, other than pushing file-sharing away from commercial development and into open-source communities.
Well my Tiger arrived in its cage yesterday, so I spent the whole day installing it in my computer. It took ages, on account of a tail of problems, but I’ve finally got it growling. Here are my thoughts. Spotlight is great! Whenever a corner of the screen goes all dark, I can just turn [...]
I attended the event today, organised by the Radio Academy, called ‘The Digital Generation: Radio’s Friend or Foe?’. Held at the Apple Store on London’s Regent’s Street, a bunch of radio industry professionals gathered to discuss whether the iPod (and other portable MP3 players) are a threat to the radio industry. These are my notes [...]