Season 2 of Being Human starts on BBC3 and BBC HD at 10:30PM on Sunday January 10th. I’ve set my SKY HD box to record the series on HD.
And Heroes starts on BBC HD on Saturday 9th, so that’s on series record too.
January 5, 2010
January 4, 2010
Nokia sues Apple (again)
Finns to match Apple ‘by 2011’ Nokia has beefed up its legal challenge to Apple, filing a second patent-infringement lawsuit against Cupertino in US District Court in Delaware. This time around, the Finnish outfit says that Apple stole patents that make Nokia unique, including patents for a camera phone and a touch-screen display.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud [From Nokia sues Apple (again)]
Smacks of desperation.
Avatar smashes box office record
Sci-fi blockbuster Avatar becomes the fastest movie ever to achieve $1bn (£625.6m) in world ticket sales. [From Avatar smashes box office record]
I plan to go see this in the next few days.
January 3, 2010
Bruce Sterling’s State Of The World 2010
“For the eleventh time, Inkwell rings in the New Year with a visit from Bruce Sterling, to address the State of the World and Things Various and Sundry…” Always good fun. [From Bruce Sterling’s State Of The World 2010]
New Year’s Day
As usual we had family over for food and drink.
The dogs managed to grab a few sausage rolls and such as well.
HomePlug inside
For the curious, what it looks like inside. Don’t do this at home.
Top cover off. The transparent plastic fork thing is the light guide to take the LED lights from the circuit board to the outside.
ARM license CPU.
See HomePlug Turbo
January 2, 2010
Irish atheists challenge new law
Irish atheists defy a blasphemy law by publishing quotes it considers anti-religious, including by the Pope, on its website. [From Irish atheists challenge new law]
It seems likely the Irish Govt. will avoid this confrontation. Another case of selectively applied laws.
December 30, 2009
Nokia expands claim against Apple
Nokia ramps up its legal fight against Apple, claiming that almost all of its products infringe its patents. [From Nokia expands claim against Apple]
I guess the next move is for Apple to dig up even more patents it claims Nokia infringes. Apple has been in the computer business a lot longer than Nokia has been in the phone business, and smartphones are computers.
HomePlug Turbo
Today an 85Mbps Homeplug Turbo I bought in June 2007 died. Just the power light on, no powerline or ethernet lights. Its partner of the pair I originally bought died in October.
A different make of HomePlug Turbo I bought in October 2007 failed in June.
I’ve been replacing all these units with the cheapest generic Chinese devices on Amazon because I really like the speed and simplicity of mains networking.
But it seems they don’t last longer than about two years
See HomePlug inside
December 28, 2009
Six Feet Under
Finished watching season one of Six Feet Under yesterday. I’d managed to miss this show somehow so now I’m catching up with the complete box set which was on sale at Amazon. The first season was very good and I’m looking forward to the rest. It’s one of those shows that was made during the transition to widescreen so the first two seasons are in 4:3 aspect ratio and the last three are in 16:9.
Another show I never saw that I got the complete box set of is The Wire – a show that many critics deem the best TV drama show ever made. I’ll eventually get around to that. I still have to watch the last two seasons of The Shield first.