And a great big Doh!

May 13, 2008

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I wrote, in very rushed and excited tones a couple of weeks ago that the wonderfulness that is Top Gear would be returning to our screens in June 15 - looks like I was wrong. [Read more]

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Playing with my Pipes

April 22, 2008

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When Yahoo launched Pipes about a year ago I spent a LOT of time playing with it, in fact you could say I got a little bit addicted - but I managed to break the addiction and leave it alone.

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Embedding madness

April 10, 2008

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I love the fact that I can now go to a BBC News story and watch the video file right there on the page without having to wait for a pointless painful pop-up.

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More from the BBC

April 10, 2008

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When the BBC started re-launching its sites into the new design language (with the big black bar at the top of the page) there were a LOT of complaints.

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Five years of this

March 27, 2008

I know I’ve been blogging for a long time but not always on this URL - so finding the exact date I started blogging has been tough - so far I’ve only been able to trace back about three years - well now I can go further.

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Notable comment

March 24, 2008

From the Times story on the baptism of a mulsim in Rome.


So an intellectual weakling has changed his favourite brand of superstition for a different one & an old man in a silly hat has poured water over him. Yawn.
Roger Angove, Truro,


I’ll let you in to a little secret - I prefer to read comments and the responses to comments on news articles than the articles themselves most of the time.

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Embedded video on BBC News

March 13, 2008

It’s been a long time coming but it looks like BBC News Online has finally launched embedded videos. By embedded videos I’m actually talking about inline flash movies as part of a page.

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Emergency Home

March 13, 2008

It’s been an eventful day for the BBC Homepage team today - first there were technical issues that caused them to publish a simplified version of the page and then there was a big news story.

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Me on Sky News

March 8, 2008

As you’ve probably noticed Jersey is at the centre of one of the biggest stories in Britain at the moment, or at least it was until the media machine moved away last week.

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