Ultimate Gambit

Ok, this is crazy – the BBC have just posted a news item saying that the iPlayer has been warmly recieved.

After my post the other day, I tried again to get it to work… unsuccessfully, and have now totally given up on the service. And I am not alone in disliking it.

Sort it out BBC, and DONT LIE JUST TO MAKE YOURSELVES LOOK GOOD!

…it’s crap.

Here is my experience exactly as it went…

1. Load up Thunderbird and recieve mail from BBC saying i’d been accepted onto the beta.
2. Load Firefox, log in, select an episode of Hyperdrive to test it.
3. Told that I need IE. Grrr… Still, i’ll accept it.
4. Load up IE, log in, select episode of Hyperdrive.
5. Get the following message:

All of which i have (hence the ticks… – i got a cross next to IE when i was in Firefox)! I know you’re in BETA BBC, but thats crazy! Sort it out! For now i’ll have to stick with my PVR and other methods – lets hope that eventually this will be a viable solution! Who knows – the quality may be rubbish anyways…

I’m a big fan of Optical Illusions, and just wanted to give a shout out to a great Optical Illusion blog that I check regularally – Mighty Optical Illusions.

I submitted an illusion to them the other day, and they posted it, so I though the least I can do is give them a shout – you can see it here: Who’s Lifting the Moon?

Anyway – check out their site – it’s well worth a look

The DVD Forums are running a Photo-a-day challenge for July, and since i havent used my camera for a while i thought i’d take part! You will be able to see all my photos on Flickr throughout this period by clicking here. It’s going to be tough keeping it up, as i’m not the best at these kind of things, but lets see how it goes!

Some will be good, some will be crap, but should be interesting anyways! Wish me luck!