Legal Music Online? What If I Can’t Find It?

Dear BPI,
I’ve not recieved one of your lovely letters, but I would like to hear an answer to a point I have regarding music online. What if I can’t find a music track or album online?
I’m sure you’re familiar with artists who don’t appear electroncially, such as The Beatles, or do not wish to appear […]

Watch Out Twitter Investors - Here Comes Identi.ca

My old Warrant Officer always used to say (in that low voice of menace) that you should never just state a problem, but state a problem followed promoptly by “here’s what I think we should do.” So if Twitter is Fail-Whaling, then we need another service. Lots of people have said it needs to be […]

My Mashed Report [Via BBC News]

My personal experiences of Mashed, and the story of the Social Flight Simulator will be along shortly. I’ve been busy today covering the news of Nokia’s purchase of Symbian for All About Symbian, and my overall view of Mashed for the BBC News Technology section has also went live. Head over to BBC News to […]

[Mashed] Top Ten Tips To Survive the BBC Mashed Experience

So it’s that time of year again, when the great and the good gather to watch the pivotal episode of the Doctor Who season gather in Alexandra Palace for two days (and one night) of hacking, coding, building, geeking out, and other stuff - BBC Mashed. Yes I’m there again; no I’m not building a […]

[Mashed] Would You Like To Volunteer For My Mashed Project?

As you may recall, I’m working on something for the BBC’s Mashed event this coming weekend. I’m delighted to report that the final few pieces are falling into place (in readiness for my nail-gun…). That means that the next part of the project - actually using the hack after it is built - comes into […]

[Mashed] My Plans for BBC Mashed [!Hackday] Next Week

Next weekend is the BBC’s Mashed event, and I think there are a few tickets left, but in any case it’s going to see close to 500 hackers, developers, web 2.0 specialists and a fair proportion of the UK’s digital community in one place. Throw in a bundle of sessions, overnight hacking, and some planned […]

Skype and Windows XP Problems

Spent most of Sunday trying to chase down something annoying on my laptop - a few days ago Skype stopped working, it would just hang for no reason. No matter what I’ve tried it heads out to connect, gets two or three names, then locks up.
Interestingly, if I try another user profile on my laptop […]

Barcelona For A Few Days

Heading over to Barcelona for the Nokia S60 Summit this morning, mostly to be reported over on All About Symbian and All About N-Gage. It’s also a good chance to crack up the MaxRoam SIM card so I don’t get stung calling home! While my usual number will still be working, you can call the […]

The Myth of ‘Political’ Voting at Eurovision

Pretty much ever European blog commenting on the Eurovision Song Contest this morning is bringing up the political voting (you know, where Greece and Cyprus exchange 12 points if they can, the Scandinavian countries vote for each other, and so on). Lets get this right. The voting in each country is now a 15 minute […]

Eurovision Pick 3 2008: The Results of the Twitterverse Competition

Not only is the result of Eurovision 2008 in (1st, Russia; 2nd, Ukraine; 3rd Greece), but the results of the Twitter ‘Pick Three’ Eurovision is in as well. The twitterverse each chose three songs, and their scores are added up to give your score. Just for fun you understand… the results (of those I saw […]

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