2008

Student Bliss - Espresso AND Pick n Mix: OpenTech 2008

Liberace’s HDTV: Opentech 2008, marlborough arms

The Saddest Dalek In The World: Stuck in Waterstone’s...

Arrived at Kings Cross. Onwards to bookstores with teeny tiny coffee bars

Currently enjoying listening to Terasbetoni - gotta love a Finnish band that translates to...

Looks at recent chat logs… “My God, Bones, What have I done…”

Over the border into England. A few London meetings, and then onto OpenTech tomorrow.

New blog post: Legal Music Online? What If I Can’t Find It? http://tinyurl.com/5jzcko

Legal Music Online? What If I Can’t Find It?

New blog post: What Out Twitter Investors - Here Comes Identi.ca http://tinyurl.com/6y726c

What Out Twitter Investors - Here Comes...

Morning all - a sunny day, with writing for AAS and emailing about 30 Fringe Shows to set up...

Today *is* a good day. Will be meeting a great interviewer/host to join the Edinburgh Fringe podcast...

Finally - after 45 years Daleks add IF <target> THEN <exterminate> THEN <gloat>...

Morning all - I wonder well Twitter will cope this week?

Why The Current N-Gage Games Are Crap.

New blog post: Why The Current N-Gage Games Are Crap. http://tinyurl.com/6285u9

One Reason Why My Laptop Has Been Rubbish…...

New blog post: One Reason Why My Laptop Has Been Rubbish… Dust http://tinyurl.com/67h48z

Reasons My Laptop Fails #1: 11:54 AM Friday, June 27, 2008...

Morning all - today is a melancholy day.

My Mashed Report [Via BBC News]

New blog post: My Mashed Report [Via BBC News] http://tinyurl.com/5kk5vb

Ploughing through all the implications of Symbian/Nokia deal. Open Source in two years is v.v....

Over the border and back in Scotland

Pilot View: 12:53 PM Sunday, June 22, 2008 BBC Mashed 2008

Navigator View: 12:52 PM Sunday, June 22, 2008 BBC Mashed...

Tokyo Approach: 1:10 AM Sunday, June 22, 2008 BBC Mashed...

Tokyo Approach: 1:10 AM Sunday, June 22, 2008 BBC Mashed...

Crusing Towards Japan: 12:29 AM Sunday, June 22, 2008 BBC...

Dive! Dive! Dive!: 12:29 AM Sunday, June 22, 2008 BBC Mashed...

Laying out Construction: 10:09 AM Saturday, June 21, 2008...

Transporting Wood: 8:41 AM Saturday, June 21, 2008 BBC...

Social Flight Sim Wood: 8:21 AM Saturday, June 21, 2008 BBC...

Wood Supplies for Social Flight Sim: 6:34 PM Friday, June...

Liverpool St Crowds: 6:10 PM Friday, June 20, 2008 BBC...

New blog post: BBC Mashed: Video of the Social Flight Sim Presentation http://tinyurl.com/6lv7jo

BBC Mashed: Video of the Social Flight Sim...

Mashed08 is over - relaxing from jetlag and will write up tonight and tomorrow

“Indian Ocean. Present Day.” How’s *that* for an opening caption. Hoo-rah!

Guilty pleasure time… Status Quo’s 2002 Album, Heavy Traffic and the “Digging Burt...

Booooo… Crossed the border…

finally on a train to London, laden done with wires, pcbs, and other gubbins. #Mashed here I come!

Just done first pass through the Edinburgh Fringe 2008 programme. 18 ‘interview picks’...

New blog post: [Mashed] Introducing The Social Flight Simulator http://tinyurl.com/6x83l6

[Mashed] Introducing The Social Flight...

TPN Rock Again - featuring The End Of...

New blog post: Top Ten Tips To Survive the BBC Mashed Experience http://tinyurl.com/5tncfo

Top Ten Tips To Survive the BBC Mashed...

Having a good day - everything is starting to fall into place for the weekend. It’s going to...

Dogtanian on VHS!: 9:02 AM Saturday, June 14, 2008 Dogtanian...

New blog post: Would You Like To Volunteer For My Mashed Project? http://tinyurl.com/5rlw8n

Would You Like To Volunteer For My Mashed...

For no reason I’ve put “Top Gun” on very loudly in the office. Just the sort of...

Morning all - today is the day broad strokes for Mashed should hopefully be complted! And some nice...

“As I lay there lying on the floor, I let go the bloody rope…” ROFL - Love Ronnie...

BSG S04E10 <spoiler free> Woooooooaahh.. It;s gonna be a long 7 months

There’s something wonderful about Saturday fry up with Radio 2’s Sounds of the Sixties...

Quote of the morning “Gordon Brown will never win an election. He’s the political equivalent...

Morning all - w00t! BSG S04E10 d/l took just 11 minutes this morning

New blog post: My Plans for BBC Mashed [!Hackday] Next Week http://tinyurl.com/62sbx5

My Plans for BBC Mashed [!Hackday] Next Week

BCC Backnetwork for Mashed now live

Morning all - today is podcast recording, conference call

Still looking for someone to bring some wood (or a taxi to BnQ) at the BBC Mashed next week

David Davis move: Does this lock the tories into a libertarian non ID-card policy nationally?...

Now if only Jacqui Smith would stand down and fight David Davis in the by-election

David Davis speech replaying on News 24 - invoking anniversary of Magna Carta this Sunday, ID Cards,...

Dvid Davis resigning to trigger a by-election on the point of principle over 42 days… Frak me,...

Bah! I can find every other Geoff Love album - TV, Western, Superhero, SciFi - but where the frak is...

You shouldn’t have seen that bit, but yes, I’m Twittering from the BASH shell. Why is...

I feel the sudden need to listen to “Big War Themes” by Geoff Love and His Orchestra....

Morning all - I know it rained in the night, I heard it glancing off the trees. But it is gloriously...

DUP votes through 42-day dentention. I hope their thirty pieces of silver were worth it, given...

Virgin Media Broadband returns! Yaay! I shall now cook an egg on the 3G PCMCIA card…...

ANyone out there going to the BBC Mashed event that has practical DIY skills (nails, wood, etc) and...

Fekkin VIrgin Media (NTL) are down. <fx: slams in 3G T-Mobile card…>

This is a test (001) nothing to see here, move along.

Morning all, it’s a lovely sunny day in Edinburgh. Just deciding on which Symbian app to...

42 Days… No… No… No…

The disappointing thing about iPhone is how it hasn’t changed the market. The 3G iPhone is...

Iphone at $199 just puts more money in the monthly payments (an extra $240 over two years) to get...

New blog post: 42 Days… No… No… No… http://tinyurl.com/6d4o8t

The 3G iPhone is not $199

New blog post: The 3G iPhone is not $199 http://tinyurl.com/6pbtgt

New Blog Post: Yes Nadine, Blogs Are Good Communication Tools. Why Not Use One? http://is.gd/txU...

Morning all - the plotting for next weekend at Ally Pally continues.

Skype and Windows XP Problems

New blog post: Skype and Windows XP Problems http://tinyurl.com/5ublgh

Doctor Who 30x09… Squeee!!!! BSG 4x09… Squeee!!!! All is well in the world tonight.

MMMMmmmm… Doctor Who…. Spoilers (well, just one, right at the end…)

Finally have good idea for a BBC Mashed Hack, & is doing “putting the team together”...

New blog post: The Voice of S60 Podcast, from the S60 Summit http://tinyurl.com/69gyoc

The Voice of S60 Podcast, from the S60...

New blog post: Scoble’s Twitter Interview Misses The Point http://tinyurl.com/59dg8h

Scoble’s Twitter Interview Misses The Point

New blog post: Win Shia LeBeouf’s Hand at TPN http://tinyurl.com/6g52ng

New blog post: S60 Summit Podcast Recap http://tinyurl.com/5j3s2b

Win Shia LeBeouf’s Hand at TPN

S60 Summit Podcast Recap

Taking All About Symbian into Top Gear

New blog post: Taking All About Symbian into Top Gear http://tinyurl.com/6jpqox

EDI-LGW BA A319

EZY at EDI

S60 Summit

S60 Summit - Villa Buggatti

S60 Summit

S60 Summit

Hesperia Tower Reception

Get Your S60 Stickers!

The Top Gear Studio and Circuit

LGW-EDI BA A319

Almost Sunset at 28,000 Feet

Sunset at 28,000 Feet

Sunset over Edinburgh and the Forth

Booting the Bus Monitor

Barcelona For A Few Days

Sitting in lounge at Edinburgh Airport.

Setting off to Edinburgh Airport for Barcelona (thankfully via Gatwick) to report on Nokia’s...

Oooh I’m loving the implied suspence created tonight. Heheh

Ahhh, back in from <mysterious thing I’m not talking about publicly> which went very...

Chimpy Chomps Return: Limited Edition (Marketing Ploy) for...

Thought for the day - would you rather Eastern Europea countries trade ‘douze points’ or...

…is spendinga lot of today grabbing albums from his favourite Eurovision 2008 performers

New blog post: The Myth of ‘Political’ Voting at Eurovision http://tinyurl.com/5txpsy

The Myth of ‘Political’ Voting at Eurovision

Congrats to @OwenBlacker for winning Twitter #Eurovision 2nd @ewanspence 3rd @Neonbubble 4th...

New blog post: Eurovision Pick 3 2008: The Results of the Twitterverse Competition...

Yep it’s all over for another year. Now, next year, can I get myself to Russia and tweet from...

Eurovision Pick 3 2008: The Results of the...

Russia didn;t outscore Lordi, take heart

And there we go! Tis all over! Russia 1st, Ukraine 2nd, Greece Third (I had Russia, Ukraine, Sweden)...

UKRAINE FT2nd!!!

Russia FTW, Ukraine 7 behind Greece, come on Ukraine!

WHo let Owen Wilson into Sweden to judge?

Come on Ukraine!!! Only 16 points behind Greece. Grab secon place and give me the top two places!!!

Oooh votes for Poland! I spoke too soon…. FTL indeed

Ireland probably gives us enough of a buffer against Poland. And surprise the UK and Ireland do the...

Malta gives 12 to sweden. I’ll take that for my pick three

And if there’s another score for Poland, UK is gonna be last

Russia pulling nicely ahead. Yaay! Now it’s time to root for Ukraine to sneak second place...

Russia are now more than 12 points ahead of the competition. THey can’t be overhauled in a...

Come on Russia! And if FSM smiles, Ukraine can pull up to greece and jump ahead

Half way stage. Ukraine and Russia riding high which is good as my pick of Sweden is proving a...

Fingers crossed this doesn;t become as big as riverdance #eurovision

Pirates FTW is without saying, and Finland as well, if politics weren;t involved

My pick three for Eurovision… Ukraine, Sweden, Russia. No change in pre final pic. All the...

Contenders… Ready!

So, everyone choose three, tweet here, and at the end add up the three scores for our Queen of...

There we go, all 25

Finally up is Norway. I like this singer, err, song… #eurovision

That is Jeff Clavier on the violin for Russia??? #eurovision

Two left, Russia (good each way bet) and Norway (strong top ten, top three if people don’t go...

Here We Eurovision Go! Go! Go!!!!

Watch out for the turkish pyros at the end #eurovision

There are enough displaced Turks to get “More than Purple” to a top ten result...

Iceland you do know they are a tribute band that perform the hits of eurovision in stge shows, yes?...

Potential winner, deffo top three from Sweden now #eurovision

Warned you I did,m warned you. But young pirate obi wans did not listen #eurovision

And Sweden is up next - this is the high water mark, folks!!! #eurovision

Ah good, Latvia have improved the arrangement since Thursday

If Steps had been in Pirates of the Caribbean