Category: tech

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

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

Buried a few screens down on this page is some interesting news about the BBC’s RSS feeds. The key points are: A loosening of the terms of use to allow all sites to use the feeds, instead of the current “personal use only” license A feed for most recently published stories Feeds based on user-defined… Continue reading More BBC RSS

As you’ll see (well those of you who don’t read this through an RSS reader) I’ve given this site a bit of a redesign. I like the idea of going back to something pretty basic. It’s still not quite how I want it so I’ll be tuning it over the next few days and weeks.… Continue reading New Design

Tim O’Reilly writes about the percentages of various web browsers that are use to access the various oreillynet.com web sites. They are currently showing Internet Explorer at 54.66% and Firefox at 35.08%. O’Reilly’s audience do, of course, tend towards the geekier end of the web browsing audience but they tend to lead where the rest… Continue reading Firefox vs IE on O’Reilly Sites

Looks like Google Maps has expanded to cover the UK.

The tale of my stepdaughter’s iPod rumbles on. After much hassle we finally got it all working last week. Or so I thought. I’d tested it by copying files from her large (legal, I’m sure!) MP3 collection onto the iPod using AnaPod. This worked fine. The next step was that she wanted to rip her… Continue reading Me and Steve Jobs and Bill Gates

I knew that it was likely to happen. I’d even heard strong rumours of the location. But in a blog entry yesterday Nat Torkington confirms that the European OSCON will be taking place in Amsterdam from the 17th – 20th October this year. Hope to see you there.

I’m convinced that Steve Jobs hates me. There’s something embedded in every piece of Apple hardware and software that checks who is using it and if it’s me then it does everything in it’s power to make my life as painful as possible. It’s the only possible explaination. Everyone else seems to think that Apple… Continue reading Me and Steve Jobs

The UK Government have launched a new web site to inform people about IT security issues. The links page on the site contains an image which proudly identifies the site as being built of valid XHTML 1.0. Sadly, clicking on that image runs the W3C validator tool which then demonstrates that the page is not… Continue reading Government Web Sites