Archive for December, 2007

It Doesn’t Hurt To Get Some Help

Sidepodcast has a brand new Wordpress theme, introduced for the New Year, and I wrote it. I can’t claim 100% of the credit, but a lot of the fundamental CSS work was mine. There were just a few twiddly, fiddly bits that I needed a hand with.
I couldn’t find a theme that suited me so […]

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Find the Colour, Sight and Sound

Picture the scene:
You enter a bustling Apple store, full of giggling teenage girls snapping pictures of themselves and uploading them to Bebo. Everyone is there buying gadgets with their Christmas money and planning what they’ll get in the January sales.
You are buying some software, which you have had to ask an assistant to fetch from […]

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Christmas Was Ruined But Not By The Grinch

In the good old days, I used to enjoy television at Christmas. Actually, let’s rephrase that, I used to enjoy television full stop.
My dad has always been one for guessing plot lines before they happen, working out the twists, the jokes, even the next words out of an actor’s mouth. It was quite annoying, but […]

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The iPlayer Makes My iLife Slightly iBetter

My inaugural post as a somewhat techie blogger must be about the BBC iPlayer. I have been using it for about a week now and I’ve formed some initial impressions.

Firstly, confusion reigned supreme. Back when the iPlayer was announced, I quite obviously checked it out. Having TV accessible via the Internet is something I am […]

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Come Back To What You Know, Take Everything Real Slow

I am back.
But things will not be like they were before. Forget about all that personal stuff. It works for some people but it no longer works for me. I loved it while it lasted, but times change, and some things are more important than blogging your entire life history on the web.
Here, I would […]

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