I cheated today and drove the car the stones throw from home to work. Since the bike suffered it's catastrophic failure I've been walking the 7 miles a day which I hope is more beneficial from a calorific point of view than the shorter time spent cycling. However if I …

Last night's Electric Dreams moved into the far more memorable territory of the 80's. While I slowly wound Fliss up with statements like "we had one of those.. and those! ... " I had a flood of nostalgia for birth of the home computer. I was surprised the family chose the BBC …

Now we have a working* broadband link to the outside world the house is almost fully commissioned. There are a few final cabling/routing details to be sorted once the microwave up-link is installed and the house will be fully armed and operational. Now all I need to do is …

There is more information about the new iPlayer support for the PS3 on the BBC Internet Blog. While I don't get a shiny iPlayer logo on my XMB (due to owning the Japanese version) I don't really miss much as it was just a link to the iPlayer web-page. However …

I wrote my first from scratch python script* today. It's not the first time I've touched the language having submitted a number of patches to python based programs as well as spell fairly hefty tweaking existing code. But this was one of those tasks I would have usually picked up …