Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
I haven’t watched an episode of Eastenders since… well never I think. But if you are like me then watch todays (Thursday) on the BBC iPlayer.
Find somewhere quiet, somewhere that no-one can see if you are sniffling into a hankie, and commit 30 minutes to it. The BBC at its very best.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b008vrpw.shtml (Will only work [...]
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
A few posts ago I was talking about the work we’ve been doing with Flash and the D-Day that was coming up. Well this is the update to it.
Everyone was pretty happy with the result. We had a bunch of people connect from other universities and (more than I thought) bosses at ISS either had [...]
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
I found out today that I have $22 dollars in my Google adsense account dispite not using the thing for 18 months. So I thought I’d put it back into the site. Of course I can’t see it as I use adblock plus, but you can click on it if you want.
I’ve also put in [...]
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
Amy is watching Poirot at the moment. There are lots of discs per series and lots of series.
Every single disc has a completly unskippable antipiracy warning on the front of it. I know that most discs have them but I haven’t found another that is totally unskippable.
I nearly agree with the message, but put the [...]
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Tomorrow is going to be an exciting day. The LLAS have one of there sympodiums tomorrow that they are streaming live on the internet.
They are using Flash and the Flash Media Server to do this and it is the culmination of ideas from the subject centre, designs from their graphics people and a lot of [...]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
I don’t mean to fill this blog up with videos but this is damn amazing. This person has developed some software that uses a game console controller to track where your head is. When the screen knows where your head is it can move the display like a window.
Take a look, the demo starts at [...]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
You may find it a little strange that someone with a blog be concerned about privacy but there is a reason. Here at mediaguy.co.uk I write everything myself. I decide whether I want the world to know it (public), just my family and friends (passwored) or no-one at all (walk away). But yesterday I got [...]
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Amy: He’s a funny man
Graham: Am I a funny man?
Amy: Of course you are. I look at you and laugh all the time.
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
Done by an actual professor this.
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