You wouldn’t think this is April, rather than January.
View from my Garden
April 6th, 2008 — Uncategorized
View from my Bedroom
April 6th, 2008 — Uncategorized
Finally, snow in London!
19/F/Medic
March 26th, 2008 — comics, games
Originally found here
My Chilly Snowman Mate Says He Would Like Some Too
December 17th, 2007 — tubed
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)
December 14th, 2007 — bbc, programming, tubed
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!



