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 …

I saw this on the news feeds today. It's still too early to hope for a new stable release this year. Interestingly I did some hacking on vc-git.el on Friday in an attempt to improve the annotate support. vc-git.el is now living in the emacs distribution proper but …

So the government want to punish the ISP's if they don't do the impossible. The spokesman from ClaraNet on Today this morning (somewhere around here I think) was fairly direct in his rebuttal. It was apparently "impossible", even if is wasn't impossible technically it would be legally. Well technically it …

I see that Sony have "won" the battle for physical high definition media. Unfortunately since the last firmware update my Japanese PS3 has rather taken against playing Blu-ray discs. It does however play DivX files quite nicely (better than my ageing Cello DVD player). Given current trends I'm unlikely to …

I have a new hosted Xen box in Germany now. I decided that it was worth the rather small hosting fee to have at least one box I could configure that was unlikely to have it's incomming and outgoing ports filtered, limited or otherwise manipulated by consumer ISPs. I didn't …