John Griffin is just another media junkie
Awesome clip from K-1’s new years eve show.
This feud must continue!
BBC sport and other sports channels are going to live telecast American football championship; super bowl . Since last championship; major changes seemed to be made in teams as well as in team management of every team.The san francisco 49ers , has won the tournament five times; last time in 1995. However, new york jets won the tournament only once in 1969.Therefore itís quite difficult to forecast about these teams.
This is much harder to pick than the top PCs games as there is an awful lot of good TV out there. But purely based on how much I have enjoyed them here are my picks.
Best New Show:
Prison Break
Runners Up:
24, Lost, Top Gear, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Doctor Who, Family Guy, Rome
Winner:
Battlestar Galactica
Galactica may have a small fraction of the budget of Lost but it’s plot, characters and action are on another level. Ron Moore’s writing and attention to detail shine through above everything else making it not only a great TV show but a genre defining one.
As much for my benifit as it is for everyone else here are my picks for the best PC games of 2005. More to come.
Runners Up:
SWAT 4, Brothers in Arms, Knights of the Old Republic 2, EVE: Online, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, GTA: San Andreas
Winner:
Civilization IV
I have been waiting for way too long but this week I finally coughed up and bought a digital TV tuner for my PC. Naturally I went for the Nebula USB device which is by far the best on the market and now at a reduced price. The software is excellent, the PVR functionality is solid and it works pretty well round here even with a crappy little aerial.
Even though I download copious amounts of TV these days you can’t beat regular broadcasts for news and live events.
Although still in an early stage of development the Songbird project looks like it has a load of potential. It’s essentially an open source alternative to iTunes built on the same platform as Mozilla Firefox. I am one of the biggest critics of iTunes but also one of it’s biggest users so the idea of this really appeals to me. If they can nail streaming, podcasting and stability (something iTunes sorely lacks) then we could be in for a winner.
Of course being open source and extension friendly means the sooner they get this app out into the world the sooner we can all start tweaking and making it better. Even if podcast support isn’t there initially it can be bolted on with minimal effort for the average Mozilla developer. This bird might just fly.
I am essentially running a thin client in the loose sense of the word here at home over the Christmas break. My music, documents, code and many of my applications are still being stored and run on my box at uni. As such watching my newly aquired DVDs has proven to be quite the problem as the box I have here isn’t equiped with a DVD drive.
The fact that I can’t slap a DVD into another PC on our network and share it because of the copy protection is highly frustrating. Not even logging in through terminal services and firing up PowerDVD works, it recognises your remotely connected and blocks playback!
It’s fair use out of the window once again.
So the last resort solution is use VideoLAN and stream it explicitly between two PCs. It’s far from ideal as you have no menu control or any control for that matter on the client system and have to keep going back to the server to do anything.
It may take a little longer than usual to get through the raft of DVDs I have recieved for Christmas this year.
After an hour of tinkering the update to Wordpress 2.0 went as smoothly as ever and so far so good. I like the new WYSIWYG editor, much better than having to use a plugin and the image uploader is nice and handy now. I was also able to lose the Technorati plugin I had running before because of the ease of tagging new posts to new categories.
Aside from that readers through the feeds or the website shouldn’t notice any change to normal service.
As I have said before Hamachi is awesome and its uses are pleantiful. When I woke up this morning it occured to me I didn’t have my music collection with me at home, then a thought crossed my mind. I have iTunes here, I have iTunes at the flat so if I enable sharing…. nah it couldn’t be that easy.
Well it works like a dream without lag or delay making full use of the fat upload pipe at the flat.
Oh and now I remember as I am rocking out to it get the new Alkaline Trio album. Best. Stuff. Yet.
If your looking for a simple and secure VPN solution you cannot go wrong with Hamachi. Its zero config and I have been able to get VPN access between my flat and home PCs without a hitch because of it’s excellent NAT traversal. Just get it, it’s awesome. I can’t say enough good things about it.
Yesterday after a rather nice Chinese lunch at the Peach Garden in China town, myself and some friends headed into the Bullring to look at cameras. Naturally our first port of call were the fine folks at Jessops, the wonderful photography store that matches service with value for money.
Apon noticing the all new WiFi enabled digital camera had hit the shelves we promptly asked for a demonstration of this major selling feature from the knowlegable staff behind the counter. The gentleman in the middle opened his mouth and this came out,
“Sorry but we cannot show you this feature, we would be breaking copyright laws with Nikon if we did so. By installing their software on our display PC we would be violating copyright.”
We were willing to brush this asside and assume this man had just got out of bed but he was far from over,
“If we installed this on our in store computers we could lose our contract with Nikon which may result in potential court action and a fine.”
At this point we all just looked at him blankly. I couldn’t take this man’s stupidity and promtly left the store without saying a word. Some people are just too far gone to bother arguing with I thought. Jay and Ken had more patience than I did however and continued to question the man on the new fangled feature which it turned out he had no clue about. Once they had dragged themselves away from this charismatic individual I learned of his ignorance about wifi, claiming that it was a proprietary technolgy developed by Nikon.
Now I could use this blog to go on and on about how he was so wrong it was ridiculous but the points are blindingly clear. Your not breaching copyright and if you were Nikon don’t care as they would love to sell more cameras, which they would if you could show your customers this feature. This man may know a thing or two about what flash I need on my old film based camera but he knows nothing about software or consumer electronics.
The phrase “get your head out of your arse” comes to mind.
My Amazon.com wishlist was created on Friday, March 2
Xbox Live 2100 Microsoft Points Card (Xbox 360)
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance (PC DVD)
Apple Mini-DVI to DVI Adaptor
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Nyko Xbox360 Charge Base (Xbox 360)
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