I moved house. That’s it, that’s the update. The good thing is that I now have a fiber-to-the-premises internet connection, which means it is nice and fast, and wasn’t an option at my last house. It does mean I had to hand back my TiVo box (because we can’t get Virgin Media), so I am PVR-less for the first time in a couple of d...

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The family went back to school this week and so my working days were once again quiet, which is very nice (although it does also mean I’m going to have to start buying petrol for the car again, in order to do the school run, which I haven’t had to do for months on end) I don’t care about cookies. Not any more. Or at least, I...

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Last night my wife and I sat down to watch the programme about the recent drugs trials disaster in the UK (she used to work in the industry) when we suddenly realised that we were going to miss Extras. The first thing my wife said was “can’t we just watch it online later?”. It hadn’t even occurred to me! Cue professional embarrassment.

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After a couple of years of using uncountable tools, and despite their ever-expanding list of podcasts etc. I think I’ve finally hit the perfect combo for downloading those Radio4 “listen again” RealPlayer files or entire streams f...

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I like the idea of podcasts. There are some I even subscribe to: LugRadio, Ricky Gervais, Mark Kermode’s film reviews and now

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