Category Archives: internet

Gaggle and Boxee

Today I am mostly playing with the BBC iPlayer, Flickr and YouTube on the free Boxee media centre software on my netbook and listening to Gaggle… and yes, thank you very much to the person who said I should stick … Continue reading

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Potter Puppet Pals

I saw this on the CBBC show Chute! By the end I was laughing out loud.

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Moving pictures

The new video feature on Flickr has – predictably – caused a small storm with thousands of users joining a group calling for video to be removed from the site; these are Flickr purists who think the site should just … Continue reading

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Twitter ye not

I’ve just had an invitation to Twitter. Nooooooooooooooooo. Just before I left Facebook I’d taken to trying to subvert the status thingy by typing in the names of any songs on my iPod that fitted the phrase “Giles Booth is…”. … Continue reading

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Is it wrong to wish on space hardware?

…in the words of Mr William Bragg. We were walking home tonight and saw an amazingly bright satellite tracking across the sky, far brighter than any I’ve seen before. And I’ve seen a few – I love watching bits of … Continue reading

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