Category Archives: media

K9 and Company: a curious Christmas gift to you

Posted on January 7, 2025 by blogmywiki

I finally watched K9 and Company. And I have questions. If you’re unfamiliar with it, K9 and Company was a single 50 minute TV show made in 1981, a spin-off from Doctor Who that was intended to be a series, … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC, Doctor Who, nostalgia, TV | Tagged , | Comments Off

This link may be unsafe

Posted on December 16, 2022 by blogmywiki

Or: The Straw That Broke This Camel’s Back Elon Musk changed Twitter bio links to Mastadon to http instead of https – or blocked them. He is a free speech absolutist free marketeer who doesn’t believe in free speech he … Continue reading →

Posted in internet | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Streaming internet radio on FM

Posted on June 7, 2022 by blogmywiki

Years ago I remember thinking how amazing it was that the Raspberry Pi could be turned into an FM radio transmitter with nothing more than a short piece of wire and some code. Back then you could only transmit audio … Continue reading →

Posted in computers, hardware, radio, Raspberry Pi | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

BASYS nostalgia fest

Posted on November 15, 2021 by blogmywiki

BASYS was a newsroom computer system used very widely in the 1980s and 90s by many radio and TV broadcasters: the BBC and ITN in the UK, CNN and NBC in the USA, the ABC in Australia and probably many … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC, computers, media, nostalgia, radio, TV | Tagged , , , | 4 Comments

The Tower of Babel

Posted on July 24, 2021 by blogmywiki

Back in the 1990s, the BBC World Service had a newsroom computer system called EDiT. This was the World Service version of a system called BASYS which had a bit of an interesting past. It was widely used in TV … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC, gaming, nostalgia, radio | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment