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Month: June 2007

BBC Announces launch of iPlayer

BBC Announces launch of iPlayer

BBC Logo

Following the ITV recent announcement to bring broadband download on films, BBC has announced it’s venture into Broadband TV.

Players will be able to download the latest or watch live: files in a format specific to the iPlayer lasting 30 days on the users computer.

The Beeb are making steps to present the whole back catalogue in the future.

Free
The service is to be Free to British license payers.

Wonders of the Modern World

Wonders of the Modern World

Register your vote for the Seven New Wonders of the world.

Following the destruction of the old ones.
An international consortium has set up a website where homo-sapiens can register their approval of 7 new wonders http://www.new7wonders.com/.

Old Wonders:

Proposed Modern Wonders:

  • Angkor Wat(12th century) Cambodia
  • Chichén Itzá (before 800 A.D.) Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
  • Christ Redeemer (1931) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Statues of Easter Island (10th – 16th Century) Easter Island, Chile
  • Machu Picchu (1460-1470), Peru

Amongst others.

Results are due to be announced in Portugal on 07.07.07.

Next big thing

Next big thing

Got to be this band. Cansei De Ser Sexy (Portugese for “tired of being sexy”).

The coolest thing to come out of Brazil since Pelé’s football boot.

Check out the hits on youtube.

They don’t even get any airplay.

Totally cool.

Hack Day – Struck by Lightening

Hack Day – Struck by Lightening

Hack Day
Hosted by Yahoo! and BBC backstage. Developers are set to work developing new apps. for the possibility of winning a prize.

Hack Day – London 2007
Alexandra Palace was stuck by lightning which blew the Wifi receptors up at about 11am.

The fire grid blew out and emergency vents in the main hall opened.


We were evacuated from the main room as rain came in.

Clumsy Cracker
As we started programming the guy next to me spilt coffee on his computer.
He had to take it to the toilets to dry the keyboard out under hand dryers.

Apart from that everything went well.

Lightning strikes Yahoo! Developer Day

Vivé le entrepreneur

Vivé le entrepreneur

Just a quick comment on last nights.

Having a bad experience early on in life has left Simon flaky and apologetic, I’m surprised he managed to win.

In’t City
In ‘City’ terms, Christina was the winning candidate: the confident one.

Un-zen
Successful business people are often like that, difficult to judge, it’s how they find their niche, budge ahead of the flock.
When you’re at the bottom people don’t often see it like that. More like you’re being awkward.

In 30 years we’ll all be chipped.

Vivé le entrepreneur.

Moron

Moron

Was in Lloyds bank the other day when this bloke brought in a load of statements and his Hungarian identity card trying for a loan.

He had difficulty understanding, to get a loan, you need statements from your country of residence, 3 months of them.

You need bills and a passport.

fuck off
Of course the teller let them have the money anyway because we have a lending culture.