Planet Bods Blog

Switzerland Day 1 - London to Meringen in several easy train filled steps

2008-08-26T14:28:42Z

Yep, it's holiday time again...

Hope for the North

2008-08-13T12:22:59Z

The story today that a think tank believes some Northern cities are beyond revival and that those living there should move to the South East is one that fills me with some interesting conflicting emotions.

The Balcony Food Zone

2008-08-10T15:56:13Z

Regular readers will know that I like my food, and I'm keen on quality. I've baked my own bread for around two years now (and indeed, as I type, there's a malthouse loaf proving in the kitchen), and I like to eat good quality food.

Heritage Lines and random railway memories

2008-08-06T21:42:41Z

When you find out a normal part of the National Rail network is called a "Heritage Line", it puts certain phrases in mind.

Phew! It's live!

2008-08-12T14:02:03Z

Just a few weeks ago, I didn't think I'd be writing this post. I thought I'd be I'd be writing something more apologetic.

Safety on the tube

2008-08-02T11:38:41Z

Every now and then you come across some statements that are quite interesting.

Food, glorious BBC food

2008-07-16T12:56:55Z

By chance I noticed the an interesting case of BBC related database overload. And it's in the form of recipe databases. Boy, is there a lot...

The Pit

2008-07-13T13:19:54Z

Anyone following my microblog updates yesterday may have noticed a certain anger with the trauma centre that is iTunes. I've never been a huge fan of iTunes (bloated, slow, klunky), but after yesterday I now hate, loathe and despise it.

Remember the physical before we regret it

2008-07-05T11:21:25Z

I like technology. Technology is cool. I like the convenience of my MP3 player. My photos have never been better since I got a digital camera so that I can see what I've taken, and improve instantly. My PVR hoovers up TV programmes and gives them to me in a nice menu.

Music sounds better with you

2008-07-01T18:36:16Z

Well if my Rio Karma wasn't broken enough already, one suspects it's in a worse state this morning. I was casually putting it away outside the office after the morning commute, walking at the same time as I have done hundreds of times before, only for me to drop it, where it then bounced on the floor, straight into the water at the bottom of the fountain.

Fishy cables - new post at the BBCi Labs blog

2008-07-01T15:53:17Z

Over on BBCi Labs right now, you'll find my first contribution to that blog.

When you're out to con, there is another way...

2008-07-01T15:53:51Z

Roughly 50% of all the spam for bods.me.uk consists of phising attempts for NatWest customers, repeated over and over and over again.

The end of my karma

2008-06-28T14:15:34Z

After three and a bit glorious years of usage, it looks like my beloved Rio Karma MP3 player is on its way out.

Dear Curry's

2008-06-27T17:52:27Z

Thank you Curry's. You have reminded me why I don't do much of my electronic based shopping in stores any more. It makes me annoyed. You have made what should be a pleasant experience, a plain awful one. You have made me annoyed.

Without Wimbledon

2008-06-25T11:22:22Z

So Wimbledon started on Monday, and not being a tennis (or indeed a sport) fan, all Wimbledon really means to me is that I miss out on most of my favourite TV shows. The ones that aren't being disrupted by Euro 2008 anyway

BBCi Labs Live

2008-06-24T21:19:03Z

BBCi Labs is a new blog from the team I work in and will be a space for the team to write about what we're doing, show off some of the things we've done and various other stuff.

In future I should do more of...

2008-06-13T13:43:02Z

At work it’s appraisal time. I don’t like appraisal time. Cos that means I have to write everything up that's been said so it can sit in the old virtual filing cabinet for 12 months until this time next year when it can be dusted off and I can sit with my line manager and see what I've achieved off my last set of goals, so that I can get a new one and write that out. At which point I'll end up writing another of these blog posts telling you all how I hate appraisal time.

Everywhere you go, always take the BBCi Freesat Weather Service with you

2008-05-29T16:34:50Z

I seem to be making a bit of a habit of missing the BBCi Freesat launches. After being away for the initial launch due to being on holiday, I missed the launch of the new Freesat Weather service on Tuesday due to being ill with a chest infection.

The best of Eurovision

2008-05-27T15:50:02Z

It's very easy to be negative about Eurovision, so lets accentuate the positive

The Year the Eurovision Song Contest Stopped Being Fun

2008-05-25T11:47:04Z

Frankly something now has to be done, because for my mind, if you're going to enter a song contest, you've got to have a chance of winning. And no one in the west now has a chance of winning. I've denied it in the past, but the evidence is now damming.

Tweet Tweet - connecting with Twitter

2008-05-24T14:18:23Z

Martin Belam has recently been experimenting with Twitter, and has blogged about his month long experience of using it.

Installing Linux on an elderly laptop

2008-05-17T11:37:48Z

Windows was slow, and whilst I felt that re-installing Windows XP might help, Muffin is only a 900Mhz Celeron with 384meg of RAM and a 20Gb hard drive. And I don't like Windows (although XP is far better than Vista) - I'm a Linux user and have been for years. And it was time for Muffin to get a conversion.

Forgetting about, but not being forgotten about

2008-05-16T22:03:53Z

Like the world and his giddy aunt, I'm on Facebook. And for various reasons, I'm rather hidden on it - if you don't know me, you won't find my picture; you can't see my friends list. You can find me, but you can't find much out about me.

BBCi on Freesat Launched!

2008-05-09T07:38:19Z

So if you're the one person who has been eagerly awaiting a detailed blog post about it all, well you can now have it.

It launched! Or did It? I dunno. I wasn't actually around...

2008-04-30T22:21:23Z

Well it's 6 May 2008 and that can only mean one thing. Yep, it's the day after May Day. And of course it's the launch of Freesat and the formal launch of Phase 1 of BBCi on Freesat. That is, baring any last minute technical issues or problems.