Entries from March 2005

29 March 2005: Screenshot Puzzle

Staying on a BBCi theme, some random lunchtime surfing found me on Sky Digi Online, a site covering news about Sky and associated channels and services, who had a piece about BBCi, with a rather puzzling screenshot.

29 March 2005: There’s No I In Team (BBCi Freeview Rebrand)

Over the last few weeks we’ve been steadily rolling out the new rebranded BBCi, and today it got to stop three - Freeview. And that launch, along with the others, wouldn’t have happened if there hadn’t been a good team of people working away on it.

28 March 2005: Ikea Madness

For the nine months of so we have lived in our house, it’s been a bit ramshackle. The living room for example, was an awful mix of random tables, styles, colours and cables.

24 March 2005: Post Launch Mayhem

On Tuesday, the old launch seemed to have gone reasonably smoothly. Yesteday and today on the other hand…

22 March 2005: BBCi Rebrand Goes Satellite

It’s pretty hard to celebrate something when at the same time all is doom and gloom thanks to redundancies, budget cuts and so on. So internally, the relaunch of BBCi on satellite probably wasn’t on the cusp of many peoples minds. But relaunch we did, and I got to write another email to tell everyone how wonderful they are.

21 March 2005: Work, Job Cuts, etc

In case you’re wondering - and I’m sure someone will ask if I don’t mention it.

21 March 2005: Billboards, Colliers Wood and writetothem.com

So here I was, wondering whether to fax my MP about the fact that not only is Colliers Wood blighted with a huge number of billboards (I walk past at least thirteen in a ten minute walk to the tube station) but some muppet has given the goahead by the looks of it, for another two.

20 March 2005: Views and Windows

I went down to the fourth floor at work to have the old weekly line management chat, and well the view from their windows - superb.

17 March 2005: What Would Be Nice…

There are some things in life that I just wish were true for me.

17 March 2005: Coincidences in the Signed Department

The frankly spooky coincidence about signed TV programme listings.

14 March 2005: Good Commute, Bad Commute

I have decided that my commute in a morning can be either very good or very bad. There is no inbetween state. Just very good and very bad.

13 March 2005: BBCi Rebrand Comments

Whenever we launch something at work, I like to have a look around and see what people are saying - hoping of course that it’s good feedback!

13 March 2005: Singles, Space and the Compilation

I’ve been slowly digitising many of the singles I haven’t heard for years. It’s been quite a wonderful process - there’s 600 odd singles I haven’t listened to for goodness knows how long.

11 March 2005: Red Nose Day

9 March 2005: Boooooooooop

Due to industrial action, the author is currently waving pieces of paper around and thinking of interesting things to say. Normal programmes will resume shortly.

8 March 2005: BBCi Rebrand Hits Telewest

It’s all change to BBCi as we relaunch on Telewest with a new look and a new logo. Warning - contains several large images!

7 March 2005: Searching The Memories

Was it really 2001 that I spent months working away on the new, amazing BBCi web search?

7 March 2005: A Day At Work

Don’t you just love those days when you’re in the middle of writing a long, pretty tedious document that you just want to get out of the bloomin’ way, and then the shared drive where the file sits, dies. In fact it’s the shared drive with all your documents on it, meaning there’s actually very little work you can do?

6 March 2005: Bent Travel

There’s a point in everyones life where they leave something important in their trousers when they’re bunged in a washing machine, which is why my Oystercard now has a noticeable bent in it.

2 March 2005: Jamie’s School Dinners

Watching it and seeing the processed crap that kids get served at school… well I’m not particularly impressed.

1 March 2005: Google, Yahoo and an API

I know, I know. I’m behind the times. But the announcement that Yahoo were opening up APIs to its search engine got me thinking that I could finally replace the Atomz search on this site, with something that doesn’t force me to have crummy ads on it.

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