Weather Watch

Posted on Sun 18 March 2007 in general

It's frikin' hailing and snowing outside. I'm staying wrapped in my cocoon.


Rugby and Films

Posted on Sun 18 March 2007 in general

I watched a lot of Rugby today. I feel for the Irish who seem to be down on their luck this Paddy's day. I can't fault Scotland for playing their own game though - even if it meant the French won the championship. Unfortunately the English performance was less then stellar …


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Code Bonanza

Posted on Fri 16 March 2007 in geek

Having mentioned my GPL TV the other day I feel I should point out the quick response from Panasonic. They pointed me to a website where the GPL components of the software can be downloaded. Now granted it's just a bunch of tarballs so there is not a recipe for …


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Uber Busy

Posted on Thu 15 March 2007 in general

I've been exceptionally busy the last few days. I've just been made Project Lead on a new project at work. It's not a huge project compared to the last one but it certainly gives me an opportunity to show my management-like type skills. I'll still be coding but should be …


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GPL TV

Posted on Wed 14 March 2007 in geek

As I was idly flicking through the menus on my TH42PX60 I discovered something unexpected under the Software Update menu's. There was a curious menu item called "Software License" which prompted the following email:

" I noticed that the License display on my Panasonic TH42PX60 displayed the Gnu General Public License …


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