View from my Garden, originally uploaded by iamseb.

You wouldn’t think this is April, rather than January.

View from my Bedroom, originally uploaded by iamseb.

Finally, snow in London!

Originally found here

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:

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 BBC only makes the streams available on their site. I checked the iPlayer terms and conditions, and there’s nothing stopping remote embedding, it’s just a technical hurdle.

Fortunately, the internet eats technical hurdles for breakfast.

So, in the half hour before I go out to the pub, I’ve knocked together a little WordPress plugin that will take an iPlayer URI, and embed the streaming video into your page for you.

Like so:

Streaming full-screen Doctor Who on my website. Excuse me whilst I geek-out a moment, this is the coolest thing I’ve played with all week!

I’ll tidy up the code and release it to the community as soon as I get back from a night of drinking and dancing!