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Re: The real-time baby (what this means for media absorption)

RTPeat — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:09:10 -0000

I did something similar for the birth of our daughter last year, where we had relations both in the UK and over in Canada watching for news.

I only had the iPhone, and used Ping.FM to send updates to the various social media sites, and then sent the pictures via Flickr - the delivery room shots are the first few at http://bit.ly/1T0y9v - worth mentioning that what is there now are the high quality shots rather than the compressed pictures that the uploading options at that time produced.

Maybe next time around I'll have an iPhone that can do the video and sound record and audioboo as well, but it wasn't an option with what I had on the phone at the time.

Re: Keep It Simple

Richard — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:04:34 -0000

Glad I'm not alone in not liking the way Ben performed!

I also agree about Trevor Nelson - maybe he's cheap, and available on a Wednesday night. :D

Re: The Unwritten Rule

Richard — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:29:12 -0000

You've obviously not come across the Strictly obsessives on their forums - heading for 25,000 posts on there...

Re: Funky Fan

Richard — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:51:01 -0000

Not ever had to change one of the bulbs - looking at it I think the white plastic grilles must come off in some way but it looks fiddly.

As to parting with it, sorry, but it gets pretty well daily usage. As Melissa has said above, with three fans that you can point in different directions it's great for shifting cool air around the house during the humid weather we've been having recently.

Re: Can You Keep a Secret?

Richard — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:40:19 -0000

I think perhaps I enjoyed it because I had the expectation that it was going to be the usual RTD finale fare - I tend to expect a major bit of fanfic tosh for a finale now such that I'm watching it spotting all the obscure references and ignoring the plot holes. Certainly if someone like Moffat or Paul Cornell produced an episode like that I'd be bitterly disappointed, but then I tend to think I set higher expectations if I see their names on the credits.

Certainly one of the things I am most looking forward to when Moffat takes the helm is to see what he makes of the big episodes like these, as RTD has always kept them very much for himself.

As to an episode producing massively different reactions, you only need to look back to last week where much of fandom was gushing over it being one of the best episodes so far, and I really didn't think that much of it.

Re: Something Different

Richard — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:30:28 -0000

Yes, spotted that - all will be explained next week me thinks.

Re: Sir Alan Makes His Choice

Richard — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:39:18 -0000

Definitely agree that the argument is over the fact he wasn't truthful rather than the fact that he didn't have the right bit of paper. Certainly I'd agree that he is the right sort of person for the role.

I think the big difference of course is that Sir Alan had several weeks of being impressed by Lee's performance before the lie came to light - in the real world things would be a bit different.

Re: Milk in a Bag

Richard — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:35:09 -0000

The news this morning said it was quite common in Europe as well - but certainly it's a big enough change to have made the national news in the UK.

Re: Forest of the Dead

Richard — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:00:14 -0000

Some strange diagrams, but not enough clarity on my screen to actually read anything.

However, if you want some interesting insights, check out the Davies/Moffat/Tennant 'commentary' podcast lots of interesting and obscure stuff to enjoy...

Re: Canada Trip Pictures and Video Clips

Richard — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:04:00 -0000

Well we do end up spending about half the time on a cattle ranch... :D

Re: The Joys of Planning

Richard — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:18:06 -0000

Ah, having to put in a planning application means that we've had to get accurate plans drawn up already. Is somewhat more than your average shed though...

Re: The TechMeme killer or the Google Reader killer?

Richard — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:58:44 -0000

I am using FriendFeed, but I'm running with SocialThing as my homepage - the big problem with FriendFeed is that nearly everybody I want to receive updates for is not on FriendFeed, and the process to set up imaginary friends for all of them is tedious in the extreme.

With SocialThing, I just pointed it at the services and I'm getting updates for all my friends on each service.

Re: Loving my FriendFeed

Richard — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:26:35 -0000

I'm signed up on both FriendFeed and SocialThing. From my point of view the biggest advantage of SocialThing is that it pulls in information from all my contacts on the various services whether they are signed up to SocialThing or not - FriendFeed is dependant on either you manually creating imaginary friends for all your contacts, or persuading them all to sign up themselves.

Re: Plaxo is better than new Google Calendar sync

Richard — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:43:03 -0000

I've been trying out Plaxo for a few days but there are some major and significant problems with the Outlook sync. The two that are of most concern to me relate to recurring appointments. I have a number of weekly and monthly appointments which occasionally occur at a different time or different location or which I make a note on the Outlook appointment. In this situation Outlook just asks me whether I am changing just that occurence and if I am has no trouble. None of these variations are picked up by Plaxo.

The other worrying thing I found looking through what Plaxo had compared to Outlook was that any recurring appointments that carried on after the clocks had changed were all timed an hour later!

If your calendar is all one off events I'm sure Plaxo is just fine. Any sort of regular appointments - forget it.

Re: Do Kids Think Adults are Stupid?

Richard — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:27:18 -0000

Okay, Beth has just told me about her lesson with the class today.

She started off by playing the Graham Norton Stand Up Sit Down game with the class.

Question one - Sit down if you think it is acceptable to copy parts of your coursework off the internet? - Nobody sits down.

Question two - Sit down if you know what plagiarism means. - One or two people sit down.

Question three - Sit down if you can honestly say that one hundred percent of your coursework is your own work and you have not copied any of it from the internet. - Six people remain standing, one of the people who has been copying has sat down, the other three are still stood up, plus three more.

The one of the four who has sat down maintains that the report is all his own work - unfortunately he is unable to explain what some of the phrases he claims to have written actually mean, and eventually admitted that he did copy too. The other three who have remained standing admit that they looked up reviews of the films for background, but rewrote some of the points in their own words.

After that, the four young gentlemen went out to face the head of department, followed by their head of year, followed by the head of key-stage and the deputy head.

It is worth bearing in mind that had Beth not caught them out, if the examination board had then spotted the problem, the boys entire English folders would have been declared void, losing a sizeable chunk of their English grade, and the board could well have gone over their coursework for all their other subjects too...

The four young gentlemen returned to Beth and spent their lunchtime working on a new film report for a different film, and all of them are going to have to hand write a new report ready for the end of half-term.

Re: An Island Parish – A Window on Church Politics in Cornwall

Richard — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:28:01 -0000

Is not a repeat this year, is a new series. As to whether he is still there, he is still listed as the contact on the Church Near You site...

Re: A Unique Parish?

Richard — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:44:36 -0000

The previous series focused on Rev Guy's move from Mullion, and I've blogged about that here. Certainly he's had a rough couple of years as it would be fair to say that his decision to leave Mullion was not well received by people there.

Re: Where Have All the Colours Gone?

Richard — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:31:24 -0000

Okay, thanks to some help on the Pocket Informant forum I've found the source of the problem. The today plug-in reads the colour settings from a file called settings.txt in the \My Documents\WebIS folder on the PocketPC - post upgrade that file, indeed the whole folder is gone. Simple matter to put the file back again thanks to Sprite Backup.

Looks like PI2008 has a new way of storing settings - luckily there is an import/export option that seems to produce the .txt file that PIToday is looking for - just have to see if it still works if I try and change a setting...

Re: Why?

Richard — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:55:54 -0000

Thought it was probably the old garage site - another Rickmansworth landmark gone...

Still doesn't explain why Flock keeps highlighting it to me though...

Re: Killing Off Kylie

Richard — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:05:33 -0000

I can still remember Adric being killed off - although for about 50% of fandom they were breaking out the champagne at that point... As to the blatantly ripping off other plot ideas, the series has always done that, although usually there is some effort to disguise it a bit!

One interesting discussion I've seen following this episode is that most big fans would prefer a Steven Moffat (Blink/Girl in the Fireplace) or Paul Cornell (Human Nature) scripted Christmas special - but would you really want to waste something that good on a Christmas Day audience?

To my mind what they produced was a generally crowd pleasing Christmas episode rather than a good Doctor Who episode - not necessarily the same thing.

Re: A Quiet Last Day? No Way…

Richard — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:20:24 -0000

Absolutely - but you don't need to look at our Christmas attendance. You can come along most weeks and be struggling to find a seat. It's a misnomer that it's only certain kinds of Churches that are growing and others aren't - I can show you examples of all sorts of Churches that are growing, and all sorts that are struggling.

Re: Temptation

Richard — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:06:52 -0000

Probably would have been the local Tesco, as that is where most people would go for their lunch.

Re: Annoying Flock Problem

Richard — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:22:38 -0000

All seems fine once I'd got it all set up - now have it as my primary browser on both the PC and Mac.

Re: Developer Day Number Six

Richard — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:17:00 -0000

James, didn't have a problem with hearing you at all. You also had more success with a web application that some I've seen. The choice of not relying on Microsoft's wi-fi or network connection being a good start!

Re: Developer Day Number Six

Richard — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:43:59 -0000

Indeed - just need to find the time to implement it!