james holden

The BBC has a cracking web site to accompany it’s “I Love your favourite year” series. They have some pretty good quizzes for each year from 1960 to 1999. Give it a whirl and let me know if you score 10 out of 10.
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Having tracked down a copy of Chuckie Egg for by old BBC B to relive some of the old memories, I’m now after a joystick for it. It seems that PC joysticks are a little too different to just make a passive adapter. Time to hit eBay.

BoingBoing’s Cory Doctorow has written a fastastic editorial for Edinburgh University’s law department on how the tech companies have rolled over and played dead in the face of pressure for the entertainment industry, producting crippled products for fear of getting sued for ‘contributory infringment’.
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This weekend I’ll finally get around to doing some more work on the Freevo PVR I’m building. I started before Christmas with an LR6550 DVB-T card from eBay, and a Mini-ITX motherboard in a nice little slimline case, smaller than an average satellite receiver. I’ll report back on the progress later on.
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Orange have launched the latest model in their SPV line of SmartPhones. It’s the same device O2 have been marketing for a while now under their XDA range. The M2000 is a PDA with a phone built in, which, in my opinion is a pretty poor design idea. Converge my data, not my devices!
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We’re all drinking dirty water, or so Simon Gawne of StreamShield would have us think. In this month’s PC Format magazine, he compares the current ISP industry to that of the water industry 100 years ago where water was delivered without any purification or filtering. StreamShield produce a network content filtering appliance which he believes that all ISPs will install on their networks to cleanse their Internet content, removing porn, spam, warez and P2P traffic. Unsurprisingly, the ISPs questioned in the review are wary of the idea.
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There’s a few people at the office with wireless headphones, with which they are able to wander to the coffee machine and back taking their music with them. This year, the organisers of the Glastonbury festival are taking the idea to a new level with a silent rave. Revellers will be given wireless headphones and will dance the night away, long past the noise curfew, in complete silence.
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I’ve moved over to Wordpress as a blogging tool. This has a lot more features than the old version of b2 that I was using. The old b2 blog is still available here. I’ll come up with a more individual theme soon.