It’s a mark of how reliable some websites are that the first thing you do when you can’t access it you assume it’s something up at your end. As it turns out the BBC has suffered a major DNS outage knocking all four of their DNS servers off the ‘net. At a stroke anything with [...]
Archive of posts tagged bbc
Question Time
Well the reaction quotes are in from last nights Question Time, as are the viewing figures (7.9m, easily beating the previous 3.8m water mark at the height of the MPs expenses scandal). I’m not sure I’m cynical enough to accuse the BBC of engineering the media storm on the run up to boost ratings but [...]
Guilty Pleasures
I’ve finally started taking advantage of all the memory I put in this machine to indulge a guilty pleasure. Seeing as I’m only testing the next Ubuntu in my virtual machine I can install Flash on it so I can watch iPlayer. Although I’m obviously critical of the fact it locks people into the closed [...]
Bright Lights, Big City
We headed down to London last night to meet up with some of Fliss’ old friends for a few drinks and a meal. As we wondered past the bright lights of Piccadilly Circus I saw the adverts flashing up on the multi-media advertising for the BBC’s iPlayer, now available for the iPhone. The background information [...]
