Archive for June, 2006

The ability to download television programmes from the internet (legally) is hotting up, slowly. Unfortunately we’re heading fast in the direction of DRM, low-resolution and region-enforcement.

So, very quickly here’s what I’d like. When a series starts on TV, let me go to the publisher’s website and pre-order the series box-set DVD. Then, for the duration [...]

The Champagne is uncorked because I got a 2:1. Whoop.

Go go lazyweb!

Here’s the deal: I usually use my PC to listen to music but having just moved back home, there’s no room to set it up. Therefore I’ve instead copied a small subset of that music onto my iBook and will be using that instead for the next few months – iPod syncing et [...]

The possibilities are endless, sings Micah P Hinson out of my tinny iBook speakers. His voice echoes off the bare white walls of the room that was my home.

Tomorrow I’ll leave this city that I’ve loved.

Good bye Manchester. At least for now.

There’s a well established saying and it goes something like this: ‘Don’t keep an idea to yourself because you can guarantee that someone else has also thought of it’.

This weekend at @media I finally got to show off to Tantek some UI design I’d been doing for putting user-focused microformats discovery into web browsers. I’ve [...]