Archive for March, 2007

youtube tuesday march 27th 2007 (until i think of a better title)

March 27th, 2007

videos are great. Thanks to (mainly) youtube, the internet is full of them. However, they can take a while to load and don’t make for great content, so, unless the video is relevant to something I’m writing about, I am only going to post random videos once a week. T for YouTube, T for Tuesday. [...]


the times, they are a changin’

March 27th, 2007

The Guardian reported yesterday that the Radio Times website is getting with the times. The site is getting a full “web 2.0″ makeover. The site will not have links to services that provide legal video-on-demand services. There was a time when I visited the RadioTimes.co.uk religiously every evening just so I knew what was on [...]


not valid xhtml

March 27th, 2007

A few people were kind enough to offer some advice as to why I have display problems with Internet Explorer as mentioned yesterday. Jennifer Farley said, “It happens to me when I place an image that is wider than the main column in the post.” Im not entirely sure if this happens for me, but [...]


if you see me smoking spank me

March 26th, 2007

BEWARE THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS A MULTITUDE OF CLICHÉS I didn’t have a cigarette today. You are probably thinking to yourself “Oh well done you(!)” [in sarcastic tone], whether you are a smoker or non-smoker. More specifically non-smokers will be thinking “You shouldn’t have started such a nasty habit”. The Smokers are thinking “So fucking what. [...]


rocketboom will remain free

March 26th, 2007

Andrew Baron has responded to the “misleading” Market Watch article saying: “Rocketboom will always remain free and easily available to obtain. That’s our #1 foundational principle of being and I don’t ever foresee needing to change that.”” Its not true at all. Rocketboom will remain freely available. The point I was making is that we [...]


whats the sidebar doing all the way down there? silly IE

March 26th, 2007

I just noticed that my sidebar in Internet Explorer is way down the bottom of the page. As a Firefox user I haven’t noticed this before. The only time I use IE is in work; a more-shit-than-usual IE where flash, quicktime, streaming just about anything and much javascript don’t work. But my sidebar is at [...]


paying for content online – rocketboom wants more money

March 25th, 2007

Apparently Rocketboom.com is contemplating charging users to to view the show. Show producer Andrew Baron believes that going down this path with bring in much more money than the show currently makes. That’s probably very true. What I have a problem with is the whole ‘paying’ thing. When you have 350,000 views a day and [...]


3 pints only please

March 25th, 2007

I managed to get by the whole weekend without a single drop of alcohol. Its been weird. I did find it tough resisting going to the off-license the last two nights, but I’m going to be strong, disciplined and above all, prove to myself I can do it. As mentioned briefly last week, I have [...]


losing sleep, daylight savings british summer time, crusty eyes

March 25th, 2007

Spring has arrived, and it has been showing in the weather this week. Certainly no warmer in the late evening but during the day its actually been warm. Yesterday there was not a cloud in the sky. It was all blue, and doesn’t that make you feel all warm and fuzzy? The clocks went forward [...]


random saturday

March 24th, 2007

I’m still here! – You can’t shut me down! Microsoft threatens Mac! (via Lex Ferenda) Something old that I rediscovered. Duane Keiser paints a postcard-sized picture everyday and posts it on his blog, A Painting a Day. Each picture has a link to the relevant Ebay listing page and bidding starts at $100. The average [...]