Facebook Pirate

A friend recently told me about Facebook Pirate. However, it was no longer available. After a couple of minutes, I found a way to get it back. This method requires you to have Firefox and Firebug installed.

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Written by dezza on 2008-09-27 12:28:24. Read more...

BBC cock up

The BBC managed to cock up a live broadcast of the news last night. They had a problem with the sound - the test sound was being played instead of the sound that should have been played. I managed to get a line from the TV to my machine just when they thought they'd fixed it (or not!). While the voiceover was on, there was a generic BBC one technical problem screen displaying. Anyways, here's the recording (ogg format, 800kB). I cut out most of the first report as it was not relevant.

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Written by dezza on 2008-09-10 03:15:52. Read more...

Mobile Intertubes

Owing to the fact that in the place I am living this year I cannot get a DSL/Cable/56k landline connection, I have decided to invest in mobile broadband from 3. I will try this on my Ubuntu laptop soon, but I'm being lazy at the moment.

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Written by dezza on 2008-09-06 14:07:47. Read more...