Friday Rock Show Back on Track

Assuming all goes well, and the servers stay healthy, TPN Rock’s Friday Rock Show should be winging it’s way down the RSS feeds into your MP3 players, iPods, PSP’s, smartphones and internet connected fridges at this very moment (or you can hit refresh).

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This Week’s Music from…
Seance for the [...]

Boris Johnson Facts, the Website

I really, truly wish this had been my idea, but still, I’m sure Boris Johnson Facts will make it’s way around the Uk and the rest of the world in the next few hours

Boris Johnson was responsible unleashing smallpox in America.
When someone asks Boris Johnson if he’s afraid of Jack Bauer, he replies “That picanniny?”
Boris [...]

UPnP, the Nokia N95 and Windows Media Player

Over on All About Symbian, I’ve posted a tutorial on linking the Nokia N95 (and other Nseries devices) to your Windows Media Player collection on your PC, using the Universal Plug and PLay (UPnP) protocols and Nokia’s Home Media client on the handset.
Yes you can still hook up the phone over USB, or a bluetooth [...]

Bone Marrow Registration and Matching, My Experience

Boing Boing has a post on Bone Marrow Registration, which (a) surprised me as the US organisation invovled has a registration fee - the UK service via Anthony Nolan is free - but (b) reminded me I’ve already ben partially down that route, on this blog, in the past.
PLEASE consider registering…
On Receiving A Call: I [...]

All About Symbian Insight Podcast #23

Time for the weekly podcast from All About Symbian. This week, Steve, Stefan, Rafe and myself talk about the Z10, MOSH’s free games, the Adobe Open Screen Project, Nokia in the US and Nokia Design Studio Day.

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You Won’t Get Me, I’m Part of New Labour

‘You Won’t Get Me, I’m Part of New Labour,’ sung by Gordon Brown,
To the tune of ‘Part of the Union, by The Strawbs’ (Listen to the original via Muxtape)

And here’s the lyrics if you want to sing along…
Now I’m a New Labour man
Amazed at what I am
I say what I think, that the Tories stink
Yes [...]

Top Ten: Why Mobile Phones Haven’t Changed The World.

Posted over on All About Symbian are my Top Ten Reasons Why Mobile Phones Haven’t Changed The World; the top three were…

The first cameras required you to stand still while the picture was being taken. More than one hundred years later, you need to call ‘stop’ and have everyone freeze while your camera application opens [...]

Perhaps Nobody Voted for Michael Arrington in The Time 100 Poll

Something little cheeky for Friday afternoon methinks.
First of all, in all seriousness, congratulations to Michael Arrington for being in The Time 100 most Influential People list, admittedly as number 100 out of 100 (but do see here). Irrespective of your views of the TechCrunch empire, the fact that the web is seen as a [...]

BBC Election Coverage, Now With Political Bloggers

Sitting up catching the start of the Results Coverage of the Local Council and London Mayoral elections on the BBC, and I have to say congratulations to whoever decided that inviting three of the UK Political Bloggers into the ’secondary’ studio would be a good idea, because it is. Those representing ‘us’ are…

Iain Dale, Conservative [...]

Can Grand Theft Auto really ‘Corrupt Our Minds?’

So I’m sitting here, with my Mars Bar helping me work, rest and play today (as it does every day), and wondering just how much impact the ‘murder simulator‘ of Grand Theft Auto IV will have on the games players of today? I’m drinking a nice chilled glass of Coca-Cola (it is the real thing [...]

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