The BBC reported Ask Jeeves has got rid of jeeves. I thought,… what a cool URL axejeeves.com would be, so I tried to see if anybody has got it. Well somebody has. An interesting site all about how to grow weed and mushrooms. Now jeeves is out of a job he must have gone selling drugs. Poor Jeeves.
Sods law. I finish my dissertation, drive up to keele to hand her in and what should happen? The car packs in half way there. Thank god there is a little trailer cafe so I can get a brew whilst waiting for the RAC man. Meh
John C. “I get no spam� Dvorak’s website has amusingly been labelled as a sex site by some safe-surf software. The regular columnist for PC magazine and TWIT contributor blogged recently on the subject. Although this is amusing I fear for my mind as he is possibly the last person in the world I would want to see affiliated to Sexual acts *shudder*.
It does however bring up the question of filtering inside organisations and of the Internet as a whole. I hope that higher educational networks never use such a system, it would make my type of research in to criminal activities on the internet nearly impossible.
Well I am still using Opera as my primary browser. It is just notably faster that Firefox (that is due for an update this soon). There are a few things which may take me back to Firefox though, the first is the was Opera handles RSS. To view a feed in Opera its opens up a new tab and lists them all, like how you read would read an email in outlook. I kinda got used to the drop down, ‘title’ only feature of Firefox, great for checking things regularly. Plus with opera being ranked 3rd in popularity, some websites can mess up a little bit (digg.com in particular). I also kinda miss some of my firefox plugins, like adblock and the Athens Toolbar (for higher education services) but hey, for day to day browsing Opera is faster.
What else, well iTunes has updated to version 5.0 with a nice new interface. It’s a little more stable and less buggy in the windows version at least. It’s also interesting how you can search for just video located on your hard drive. It can’t be long now before iTunes Music Store sells video, surely.
Speaking of music things, I was thinking of making a podcast but not having me saying a word on it because I sound like a 13 year old and I lack studio/equipment and anything of worth to waffle on about (the major short comings of many many many podcasts). But anyhow, I wouldn’t mind going to local pubs and recording those 1 pint a song nights or even some of the local bands that do the rounds. These people are normally shite, but for a small pub having a podcast searchable in iTunes would be something pretty cool and may even encourage custom. Just a thought anyhow, feel free to copy and use it, but if you do remember to get anybody on it to sign a Creative Commons Licence or something.
And still no BBC iMP invite *grumbles and gives up hope*.
The trial for the BBC’s Interactive Media Player (IMP) is due to start sometime this month. The system is basically legal Peer 2 Peer downloading of video content for licence payers. Today however, the website seems to have gone down, very strange. Perhaps they are readying it for trial launch.
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