Here are Rob's Blog entries for February 2006.
Blog entries for other months can be found in the main blog index.
Judging by the mix of flags on display by Buckingham Palace this morning, i'd say that the Brazilians are in town.
I'm worried about the type of people employed by our local Spar store in Eastbourne.
Apparently they are all trained in credit card fraud.
I'll only use cash there from now on.
It's been interesting to see the reaction to the announcement of the closure of Smash Hits magazine over the past 24 hours.
As you may know, I work for the company who produces (or should that be produced) the magazine. When I got into the office yesterday morning there was an internal announcement about it, and throughout the day, people were posting links to various news stories on the office email.
Two of the most interesting came through on my RSS feeds.
Firstly, Mobhappy reported that Smash Hits blaming mobile phones. Secondly, The Register said Internet Kiss Smash Hits.
I'm sure it won't be long before a TV or radio related site blames their respective media for the closure.
Smash Hits as a brand isn't going to disappear, we still produce Smash Hits TV, Smash Hits Radio, Smashhits.net and Smash Hits mobile content on some UK phone operator portals. It's just the way kids consume media has changed, and there are now many more ways to get the sort of content Smash Hits carried than 28 years ago when the magazine launched. No one channel is to blame.
Here are some other related stories...
We've been having fun at work with the Kerrang XXV tour, and we've now launched our first Kerrang video podcast with content from this.
If you use iTunes, then you can use the this Kerrang video podcast iTunes link. The link in the zebra striped area is wrong at present (2nd Feb 2006), but should correct itself over the next few hours. Clicking "Subscribe" works correctly though.
If you prefer to access the RSS feed for your ipodder, here's a link to the Kerrang video podcast RSS feed.
Finally, you can just download the first Kerrang video podcast movie.
You don't need a video iPod to watch it, you can always make do with Quicktime on your PC / Mac.
As always (tech) feedback is welcome. Tor, I'm talking to you! :-)
I've just helped out with a photoshoot for the Sunday Times with Magic's Neil "Dr" Fox whose breakfast show has just reached record highs.
Here's the obligatory cheesy photo of myself with my new personal physician.
I had an email from someone in the IT department at work this morning responding to a request I had to place a largish file on a networked server for others to download.
The killer quote is from the email is...
I think serving the file to large numbers of users from the file server is not a long term solution.
Strange, Answers.com seems to think that the definition of a file server is...
A high-speed computer in a network that stores the programs and data files shared by users. It acts like a remote disk drive. The difference between a file server and an application server is that the file server stores the programs and data, while the application server runs the programs and processes the data.