Monthly Archives: December 2007

My Chilly Snowman Mate Says He Would Like Some Too

It’s freez­ing out­side, though unfor­tu­nately snow’s not men­tioned in the fore­cast. Still, for those of use who remem­ber Aled Jones wail­ing about through the film of The Snowman, this advert for Irn Bru should warm the heart:

iPlayer Flash — Embedded (with a little work)

The BBC has just released Flash stream­ing for iPlayer’s 7 Day Catch-Up fea­ture. This is just about the best news to come out of the fiasco that is iPlayer, and for those of us unwill­ing or unable to install the bandwidth-destroying Kontiki cli­ent it’s the only way we can get our on-demand BBC pro­gram­ming.
Unfortunately, the

The Power of Python

I’m some­what of a fan of Python, using it as I do for almost everything I do in pro­gram­ming, so it’s great to see other people appre­ci­at­ing the lan­guage.
Randall Munroe, how­ever, might be get­ting a little… carried away:

BBC Made of Fail? No, definitely not.

A couple of days ago I wrote an opin­ion piece on why I feel that being forced to duplic­ate exist­ing soft­ware pro­jects due to an anti­quated and lim­ited infra­struc­ture is a large part of the reason the BBC is fall­ing far behind the rest of the industry in its inter­net offer­ings.
To put this in con­text,

The End of the World?

Not as we know it, this cover comes from some­body who has their fin­ger on the button.