Dr. Richard Clayton from the University of Cambridge (who writes for the very good Light Blue Touchpaper site) was interviewed for the Pods and Blogs podcast on the 18th December 2007 in the wake of the ...

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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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(this was mostly written on Friday 14th December, although no-one else seems to have stepped up to the plate yet) The new Flash-based BBC iPlayer streams its content over Adobe’s proprietary RTMP, making it very hard to download the stream and save it for later. Ther...

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I am very much looking forward to the coming increase in quality and drop in price of digital photo frames. We currently have five photo frames in our living room (three are curved, four are glass-edged). I wouldn’t mind swapping them out for digital frames provided there were a few criteria: • they have to be no thicker than our existing frames • they can’t be plugged into ...

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30 minutes from ssh-ing into my server to having my own (decrufted) OpenID. Many thanks to PHPMyID, Sam Ruby and openidenabled.com.

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I got a first-generation Nokia N95 two months ago. The Gadget Show rated it better than the iPhone in pure functi...

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Whilst trying to parse some Atom (my Blogger backup) with libxml2 I appear to have run into the same problem that Aristotle hit two years ago in XPath vs the default namespace: easy things should be easy, to wit: The story is that you can’t match on the default namespace in XPath.

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How to create a backup of your starred items in Google Reader, should the need ever arise:

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So, my Google account is still disabled a week later and I still haven’t had a response to the two mails I’ve sent the accounts team. My blog was powered by Blogger. I’ve switched to WordPress and hope to import all of my old blog sometime this week (I’ll have to screen-scrape my own blog archives). In related news I was using Gmail to power my email, but was using my own domain to forwa...

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Well, I had been about to post about using Android, the new Google thing for mobile devices, but they seem to have disabled my main Google Account meaning that I can’t use anything I was logged out of, including Gmail and Blogger, which means I’m writing this by hand and that comments are, er, disabled. Yeah, disabled. I ca...

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