Peel documentaries rebroadcasted on BBC Radio 6 October 31, 2008
Posted by evilzenscientist in : evilzenscientist , 1 comment so farA 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 October 30, 2008
Posted by evilzenscientist in : evilzenscientist , add a commentNow 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” October 27, 2008
Posted by evilzenscientist in : evilzenscientist , add a commentThe 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 Frenzyâ€.
Adobe AIR and updating twhirl October 14, 2008
Posted by evilzenscientist in : evilzenscientist , add a commentProblems 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 Files\Common Files\Adobe AIR\Versions\1.0\Adobe Air Application Installer.exe – then select the .air file and install.
