There was a lot of important news going on yesterday. Mrs Windsor’s speech in parliament for example. Or George Galloway in front of the US Senate. Not that you’d know that if you relied on the UK tabloids for your news. They’ve al decided that the really important news is a pop singer’s medical problems.… Continue reading Tabloid News
Month: May 2005
Backpack API
I’ve been using Backpack for a few days to attempt to organise my life a bit better. It’s a very impressive service and I think I’m getting a bit more organised :) And then this morning I see that they have now released a web services API so that you can access (and change) your… Continue reading Backpack API
Open Source Software Saves You Money
Not that it will come to much of a surprise to anyone who has thought about it for more than a second, but the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) has published a report saying that schools could save significant amounts of money by using Open Source software instead of commercial software.
Accessible Odeon Update
Last summer I wrote about Matthew Somerville, his Accessible Odeon project and how Odeon took offense to it and closed him down. I’ve just got an email from Matthew saying that he’s written a Greasemonkey script that cleans up the official Odeon site so that it can be used in Firefox. The script can be… Continue reading Accessible Odeon Update
Lamberts Restaurant
When I first moved to Balham about fifteen years ago, there was a bit of a dearth of decent places to eat. Over the last couple of years this has been changing and new restaurants have been opening all the time. One of my new favourites is Lamberts. It can be a bit pricy but… Continue reading Lamberts Restaurant
Weekend Listening
After being reminded of the existence of Andy White on Friday I had a look for some more of his albums in Virgin that evening. They were all a bit pricy (well, standard price and who pays standard price for CDs these days?) so I found a couple I was missing on Ebay when I… Continue reading Weekend Listening
Diagnosis Confirmed
If anyone is still following the saga of my health then you might be interested to know that I’ve finally got a letter from the doctor saying that the result from the broncospocy confirm the original diagnosis of sarcoidosis. Which is good as I’ve now been taking drugs for that for a month :)
Andy White
I’ve just been reminded how much I like Andy White as he’s apparently playing a free gig at my local pub on the 23rd May. For those of you (and I’m sure there are many) who are unfamiliar with his work, Andy has some samples on his web site, but unfortunately they are just extracts… Continue reading Andy White
BBC Streams Again
I finally got round to working out what was wrong with my BBC streams program, fixing it and re-running it. So I not have a shiny new and up to date list of the BBC Radio Streams. I’m hoping that Backstage will release some kind of API to this data so I don’t have to… Continue reading BBC Streams Again
Remixing the BBC
BBC Backstage has gone live. It all looks terribly exciting and I’ll leave it to far more erudite people than me to pick over exactly what it means. I’m just more than a little excited that they include a link to my radio streams page. Update: Bah! They have removed me from the list. Wonder… Continue reading Remixing the BBC