BBC Announces launch of iPlayer

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

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:

• Great Pyramid of Giza
• Hanging Gardens of Babylon
• Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
• Statue of Zeus at Olympia
• Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus
• Colossus of Rhodes
• Lighthouse of Alexandria

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

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.

On the train

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

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

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.

Geocaching

Came up 7th on the Yahoo zeitgeist this weekend.

Was struck by the amount of sites there are in the UK. map.
Consists of navigating yourself to a hidden container write a log, leave a meaningful object, and plod on your weary path.

Travel Tracker Sports Mate - ttsm

This guy sent me a link the other day.

Travel Tracker Sports Mate
The domain lets you upload a GPX file directly from your GPS unit.
(GPX Visualizer)

Visualization: options like 'playback' and heart rate against time/altitude.

Prove to your mates how fast you did a journey and lets THEM see areas where you slacked it off.

Real-time visualisation
They're publishing a KML visualization of the Alp d'Huze race in France today in real-time to run on the site coincidentally with the racers undertaking the course.

As far as I know, this is an Internet first for real time visualisations.

Here's the link.

Prince Chitty

The Princes know more than anybody about the circumstances of their mothers death.
To suggest they will be affected by a television documentary is ridiculous.

Google LatLong: Googlemaps mash ups to your desktop

Google's released this gadget which sends the latest googlemaps mash-ups to your i google page.

Put your slippers on and warm the coco. Flick through the worthy collections.

The widget accepts KML format.

Doesn't have any information on submitting maps.

News Briefing and Chanel 4

I notice that Channel 4 was the only channel to reject media briefing to lead on the big terrorist story tonight.

Doubtlessly, this will cost them their public-operators license in the long-term.

They led on the Obachiche, video below.
A story about Terrorist's being sponsored harboured and funded by the UK government.

dick?

Madalenie McCann is in a tunnel somewhere.

Everyone knows it, but no-one will tell the frantic family.

Perhaps if they were to hire their own private dick, he might be able to eventually locate her.

Patpong Market4Printers

Printer: - Epsom Stylus D78
Lasted:- 27-03-2007 to 29-05-2007 2 months


Printer:- HP PhotoSmart 8250
Lasted:- 02-05-2006 to 23-02-2007 10 months


Printer:- Canon IP4300
Lasted:- 04-06-2007 to now 1 day and counting..

Here's a list of modern deskjet printers I have bought, owned and used in the past year.

Below each printer is a length of time.
This is how long these "brand new" products lasted.

The latest installation, I have taken out an additional warranty, for £40, to cover me when things go wrong, judging by past experience, they will.

Lloyds Bank Charges

Recently received a £60 fine for going overdrawn with my bank, who have refused to repay the money.

This should be an interesting case as its receiving a lot of publicity at the moment.
I'll be using the blog to document my progress.

Links:
Lloyds Bank
Moneysaving expert

Its not much in my case, but it costs £30 to go to county court plus it doesn't take £60 to write me a letter telling me I'm overdrawn.

We'll see how it goes.