Browsing across Matt Westcotts site yielded this particular gem. [I'm from there don't you know?]. I used to love tracking it up in fasttracker, but haven’t done anything for a very, very long time. Maybe I should start experimenting again….
Archive for April, 2007
Did you know that not only can http://rightmove.co.uk hunt down all the prices of current houses for sale in your area, it will also give you the prices that houses have gone for for the last 7 years? I didn’t, but tonight I enjoyed checking out the fact that someone bought a house in my road for £40k in January (but I think either this is a typo, or the place is a hole!) and in 2001 I could have got one for £10k. If only I’d taken Mum and Dad on that offer of a property back in my first year of Uni, I’d have made an absolute bundle.
Joost Beta
Apr 12
This afternoon I was quite chuffed to discover that I’d been selected for a Joost beta invite. Joost is, in a nutshell, TV for the web . Kind of the opposite to that Current TV channel on Virgin Media. I’ve been playing with it this evening, mainly perusing the XL-Recordings and gaming channels.It all seems very good – a good seelction of channels (for me) straight off, with the ability to search Joost’s catalog of channels and add more to your collection. The interface (see shots below) is pretty swish and the advertising between shows (The maximum I endured was 2 * 10 second clips) does not detract from the channel content too much. Presumeably these are targeted advertisements, though it didn’t seem so from the few I watched. There is also the ability to interact in channels and a widget interface. I must point out that Joost is a legal service – I’m not in the business of pirating. It uses P2P (peer-to-peer), to distribute content to users – I had hardly any lags on my measly 2MB connection, although the full-screen content is compressed at quite a low bit rate.Apparently, the Mac version of joost works with the Apple remote, which I could see would make this a very pleasant experience. I think I’ll be playing with this toy a fair few more times this week.
Bills are Boring
Apr 4
Doing household bills is extremely boring. I just spent two hours dividing up the phone bill and working out who owes what. If marriage brings me anything, at least it will bring me less of a headache when it comes to doing the bills.