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16 July 2008: Food, glorious BBC food

By chance I noticed the an interesting case of BBC related database overload. And it’s in the form of recipe databases. Boy, is there a lot…

13 July 2008: The Pit

Anyone following my microblog updates yesterday may have noticed a certain anger with the trauma centre that is iTunes. I’ve never been a huge fan of iTunes (bloated, slow, klunky), but after yesterday I now hate, loathe and despise it.

5 July 2008: Remember the physical before we regret it

I like technology. Technology is cool. I like the convenience of my MP3 player. My photos have never been better since I got a digital camera so that I can see what I’ve taken, and improve instantly. My PVR hoovers up TV programmes and gives them to me in a nice menu.

1 July 2008: Music sounds better with you

Well if my Rio Karma wasn’t broken enough already, one suspects it’s in a worse state this morning. I was casually putting it away outside the office after the morning commute, walking at the same time as I have done hundreds of times before, only for me to drop it, where it then bounced on the floor, straight into the water at the bottom of the fountain.

1 July 2008: Fishy cables - new post at the BBCi Labs blog

Over on BBCi Labs right now, you’ll find my first contribution to that blog.

30 June 2008: When you’re out to con, there is another way…

Roughly 50% of all the spam for bods.me.uk consists of phising attempts for NatWest customers, repeated over and over and over again.

28 June 2008: The end of my karma

After three and a bit glorious years of usage, it looks like my beloved Rio Karma MP3 player is on its way out.

27 June 2008: Dear Curry’s

Thank you Curry’s. You have reminded me why I don’t do much of my electronic based shopping in stores any more. It makes me annoyed. You have made what should be a pleasant experience, a plain awful one. You have made me annoyed.

25 June 2008: Without Wimbledon

So Wimbledon started on Monday, and not being a tennis (or indeed a sport) fan, all Wimbledon really means to me is that I miss out on most of my favourite TV shows. The ones that aren’t being disrupted by Euro 2008 anyway…

24 June 2008: BBCi Labs Live

BBCi Labs is a new blog from the team I work in and will be a space for the team to write about what we’re doing, show off some of the things we’ve done and various other stuff.

13 June 2008: In future I should do more of…

At work it’s appraisal time. I don’t like appraisal time. Cos that means I have to write everything up that’s been said so it can sit in the old virtual filing cabinet for 12 months until this time next year when it can be dusted off and I can sit with my line manager and see what I’ve achieved off my last set of goals, so that I can get a new one and write that out. At which point I’ll end up writing another of these blog posts telling you all how I hate appraisal time.

29 May 2008: Everywhere you go, always take the BBCi Freesat Weather Service with you

I seem to be making a bit of a habit of missing the BBCi Freesat launches. After being away for the initial launch due to being on holiday, I missed the launch of the new Freesat Weather service on Tuesday due to being ill with a chest infection.

26 May 2008: The best of Eurovision

It’s very easy to be negative about Eurovision, so lets accentuate the positive

25 May 2008: The Year the Eurovision Song Contest Stopped Being Fun

Frankly something now has to be done, because for my mind, if you’re going to enter a song contest, you’ve got to have a chance of winning. And no one in the west now has a chance of winning. I’ve denied it in the past, but the evidence is now damming.

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