Entries from May 2008

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.

24 May 2008: Tweet Tweet - connecting with Twitter

Martin Belam has recently been experimenting with Twitter, and has blogged about his month long experience of using it.

17 May 2008: Installing Linux on an elderly laptop

Windows was slow, and whilst I felt that re-installing Windows XP might help, Muffin is only a 900Mhz Celeron with 384meg of RAM and a 20Gb hard drive. And I don’t like Windows (although XP is far better than Vista) - I’m a Linux user and have been for years. And it was time for Muffin to get a conversion.

16 May 2008: Forgetting about, but not being forgotten about

Like the world and his giddy aunt, I’m on Facebook. And for various reasons, I’m rather hidden on it - if you don’t know me, you won’t find my picture; you can’t see my friends list. You can find me, but you can’t find much out about me.

9 May 2008: BBCi on Freesat Launched!

So if you’re the one person who has been eagerly awaiting a detailed blog post about it all, well you can now have it.

6 May 2008: It launched! Or did It? I dunno. I wasn’t actually around…

Well it’s 6 May 2008 and that can only mean one thing. Yep, it’s the day after May Day. And of course it’s the launch of Freesat and the formal launch of Phase 1 of BBCi on Freesat. That is, baring any last minute technical issues or problems.

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