The BBC has increased the range of its podcasting trial. There are now about a dozen programs available. If they added links to the podcasts to the radio player pages then I’d include them in the BBC streams page.
Author: Dave Cross
Geeks in Hospital
A geek friend of mine is currently in hospital and looks like he’ll be there for a few weeks. Here’s an article explaining how he got his internet connection working. It all looks a bit Heath Robinson, but the post is evidence that it is working.
User Interface Design
I wanted to buy some tickets to see The Philadelphia Story[1] so I wandered over to the Old Vic web site. There’s a “book online” link there that takes you to the Ticketmaster page for that show. So far, so good. But this is where it all starts to go wrong. The Ticketmaster page is… Continue reading User Interface Design
Falconer warns against switch to PR
You’d think that Lord Falconer would be keeping his head down for a while after that little embarassment over the Iraq legal advice. But no, he’s on Today this morning saying that he sees no “groundswell” of support for a change in the voting system. Well I don’t know who he’s been talking to, but… Continue reading Falconer warns against switch to PR
Tabloid News
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
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