I decided to try out Pownce. It looks to be pretty good, although signing up with Firefox didn’t seem to want to work - it slowed Firefox to an absolute crawl, and kept telling me my postcode was invalid. (I’m wondering if it was something to do with not having Javascript turned on, although I’d think that’d make it faster?).
Pownce is, in their words, “a way to send stuff to your friends. What kind of stuff? You can send just about anything: music, photos, messages, links, events, and more. You can do it all on our web site, or install our lightweight desktop software that lets you get out of the browser.”
I have 6 invites to give out if anyone wants them… let me know in the comments if you want one (and make sure to leave a valid email address so I can send it to you, obviously!).
I recently got a Wii as a new toy, and wanted something good to stream videos to it.
I had a look round at some of the various “Media Center” options out there, but didn’t find anything I liked, so I’m writing my own.
So far I have a working system in Perl which allows you to browse the pre-set video dir(s) and presents a list of files + folders, when you select one it then uses a Flash streaming player, and either presents the file directly if it was a .flv video, otherwise it uses ffmpeg to transcode it to FLV on the fly and stream it to the Flash player.
Continue reading ‘SimpleStreamer - Flash video streamer for Wii or PC’
Started using the code editor in WP rather than the visual editor, as the visual editor annoyed me on a few occasions by mangling my code in ways I didn’t want it to.
In my last post, I typed the <!–more–> "more" seperator the proper way with a space before the close of the comment (i.e. <!–more –>) and the “Continue reading…” link didn’t appear. Not sure if it’s a problem with WordPress or with the K2 theme I’m using… must investigate.
Edit: actually I guess upgrading to the very latest WP version would be a good first move.
Finally set up a proper SPF record this evening for my domain, hopefully that’ll help at least a little in the fight against spammers.
Continue reading ‘Finally implemented SPF’
Went to metcheck.com to see what the latest on all the rain + flooding (of which I’ve seen no flooding at all), and see:
Heavy rain and flooding has is causing problems with our processing servers at the Gloucester server farm. Technical peeps are working on this at the moment. This is affecting all data updates to the Metcheck servers.
There’s something delightfully ironic about that :)Â Â “We can’t tell you whether there’s any flooding, as our servers have been flooded” 
Just got my Wii tuned in to a Shoutcast radio stream using WiiHear.com - pretty neat 
Now if only it had tabbed browsing, so I could leave it in the background and do something else…. perhaps I need to make a little frameset with a thin frame containing a Flash streaming player, so you can load another page in the main frame.
Version 0.04 of SMS::AQL which I released the other day gets a 100% “Kwalitee” score on CPANTS (the CPAN Testing Service) - see the report.
Thanks to Altinity for featuring SMS::AQL in their Opsview package and for mentioning it on their blog.
And, you might be asking, just what is "Kwalitee"? Well, it’s a sort-of made up measure of code quality… read the full explanation.
Bloxorz is an annoyingly catchy Flash game involving moving a big block around, but with some ingenious twists which makes it both addictive and frustrating.
It’s too wide to fit in the homepage column, so hit up the “Continue reading…” link to play…
Continue reading ‘Bloxorz: annoying yet addictive’
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