Yuck. That cold had me in its grip for the whole of last week. The running nose and painful sinuses are gone. Hurrah! Normally, I can shake these sniffles off in a day or so, but that was real stinker. But heck, it’s only a cold. Not like I was going to lose a leg or anything.
The Google Video upload has been very popular, being downloaded by over 40 viewers. I also added it to my podcast feed so that those with Video iPods and the like can also view my little presentation. I must admit it was quite fun and quite a distraction from feeling under the weather. I really ought to do more stuff like that because I am most happy when tinkering and doing silly shit like that. Problem is, what do I do for my next video presentation? I dunno…
Recently, I came across a really clever feature of the Sony PSP. Now I used to be a pretty sharp tool, but I think my edge has been blunted with age. Anyway, recently I noticed that you can program RSS feeds into the PSP. Now you might think that this enables it to access newsfeeds and the like, but it is better than that. The RSS feeds for the PSP only accept audio date or RSS from podcasts. OK? Are you following me? So if you add an RSS feed (like the one I have for my podcast on this site http://www.darrenlock.com/podcasts.xml) you can access the contents of the feed wirelessly. It effectively means that you can use the PSP as a wireless access point to podcasts. It doesn’t download the podcasts to memory, but STREAMS them to the device, meaning that it kind of acts as a podcast radio device. Absolutely brilliant! So I loaded in some RSS feeds from the BBC and LBC and I can listen to those while I am in bed for example.
Sometimes technology still has the ability to completely amaze me. Who would have thought that I could stream audio wirelessly over a certain distance to a handheld device while I was in bed? Five years ago, I would have scoffed at this and asked how much it would cost. The future has arrived…I just didn’t realise it.
Yesterday, watched the extended version of “The Wicker Man” on DVD. The Missus bought me that in 2002 for my birthday while she was in Santa Monica. It was a limited edition release in a big wooden box. I really love that film and is one of the few movies that bears repeated showing. Edward Woodward is just fantastic in it and I don’t think ever really got the recognition for his acting ability. I remember seeing the film for the first time on the BBC when I was younger and just being completely blown away by the end sequence. It still unnerves me now. Shame the Hollywood Movie Schlock IndustryTM decided to remake it. 🙁

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