Peel documentaries rebroadcasted on BBC Radio 6
A great re-broadcast of the John Peel documentary about New Order on BBC Radio 6.
If you are quick you can catch it here.
Really moving to here Peel on the radio four years after his death.
Amazon S3, Azure, Live Grid and the cloud
Now Amazon have opened a European S3/EC2 datacenter in Dublin I am experimenting with video hosting on Amazon S3 and having data in Europe.
Several reasons:
- there is a big fat pipe out of that datacenter into most European markets; most of the family watching our videos are in Europe. It’s a lot of hops closer (lower latency, better experience) and it’s a whole lot faster (not slurping out of my server rack at 1 Mb/s at best)
- I don’t have to worry about the storage of the data. It’s just there.
I’m looking at moving other data into the cloud too; waiting to see what Microsoft offer up in terms of Azure and other offerings. Live Grid is consumer grade right now – but looks like a good start.
“Even as we speak”
The usual late night web browsing (with music playing and a cold beer in hand) got me to Egg Records.
They have released the early catalog of Even As We Speak – an early 90’s Australian band; who happened to make it big on John Peel, released an album and disappeared.
Take a look at the compilation – “A Three Minute Song is One Minute Too Long” and try and find yourself a copy of “Feral Pop Frenzy”.
Adobe AIR and updating twhirl
Problems updating twhirl – it kept reporting an ‘Adobe AIR error 0’.
The problem was that the installer did not have permissions under Vista to install into c:program files.
The solution – run the Adobe AIR installer as Admin – c:Program FilesCommon FilesAdobe AIRVersions1.0Adobe Air Application Installer.exe – then select the .air file and install.
Snapfish firefox plugin
What a pain. Lots of photo printing sites use the Snapfish uploader – the only problem is there seem to be multiple versions out there – and they don’t co-exist at all.
Here’s an example – the UK Truprint site clashes with the legacy Costco printing – so Rachael had problems uploading.
Muh huh huh
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