There are lots of ways of setting up get_iplayer. Here’s mine. It means that filenames work across Windows and Linux, removes underscores from names, never deletes old e...

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My Raspberry Pi has arrived, and not only is it one of the nice new rev2 hardware revisions, it’s also

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I think I would pay good money for a downloadable version of Huey Morgan’s 6Music Sunday show without the news/audience participation etc.

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I don’t know how to add a link to the Amazon MP3 store for a given song. If I did then I would add that to http://philwilson.org/6music/ and its purpose of letting me easily find out what song is currently playing and then buying it, would be complete. As it is...

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About a year ago Libby Miller wrote Charbot Green, a BBC Radio 4 announcement bot for Twitter. It’s written in JRuby, uses the H2 database and

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The other day some idiot suggested micropayments for online newspapers (single page version here). Apparently it has only taken five years or so for everyone to forget that this was exactly the model many papers were adopting online in th...

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So, I finally finished the move from one host to another. It should not have taken as long as it did but after a frustrating night with the nginx config I spent a few days unwinding and catching up with the BBC’s new light entertainment series for Saturday nights, Merlin by watching it on iPlayer. My god I love iPlayer. It’s a...

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Want an easy way to pass around a long and hard-to-remember URL for a BBC programme? As of six months ago,...

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ZOMG! Sylvester McCoy!

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There appears to be some work going on to try and get iPlayer working on the XBox Media Center according to this thread on their forums (thanks for the link, Iain) and although it only seems to make progress up t...

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