In my first impressions review of the BBC iPlayer for the Nintendo Wii games console, I had a few unanswered questions. Here are the answers and follow-up observations.

• The BBC iPlayer is tied to UK geo-mapped IP addresses. So my sister in Holland would not be able to use the Wii iPlayer even if she had a Wii console set to the UK region, ( Read more... )

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The Gary McKinnon hacker case annoys me greatly. Yes, the UK:US extradition treaties are biased in favour of the USA. Yes, our Home Secretary could, if he so chose, exercise his discretion to lobby more strongly on McKinnon's part ( Read more... )

Inspired by Lee Chaos' FB wine dilemma, I think I have solved the "leftover decent wine" problem ( Read more... )

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cd /home/wife && sudo chown -R wife.wife .* DOES NOT DO WHAT YOU THINK IT WOULD DO ( Read more... )

This is a CGI animated made-for-DVD movie featuring a Vagnarian theme. The heroine is a tall Teutonic blonde princess, who is fond of high leather boots. The animation is of high quality, although sometimes her legs do seem to walk rather stiffly ( Read more... )

When Doctor Who fan conspiracies collide... Okay, what if the reappearance of the St Johns Ambulance logo on the TARDIS (significance) combined with the series canon that a Time Lord can only regenerate 12 times (13 lives) means that the Beeb have realised that they're running out of regenerations and have decided to reboot Doctor Who? What if Matt ( Read more... )

I've mentioned my dispair at how pants Torchwood Day Five was compared to the excellence of days one through four. Subsequent to Morph and Adrian's posts, here's how I thought it should have panned out.

Our heroes were facing an alien who claimed to have invisible ships, superior technology, rather nasty biological weaponry and a large number of ( Read more... )