Month: July 2005

I don’t really have anything to add to yesterday’s explosions in London. Neither Richard nor I were anywhere near the city yesterday but instead were safe and well in Sussex. At work we had Radio 5 streaming through the internet and like Jonathan we watched slow-loading news pages arrive through our browsers whilst emailing/texting friends and relatives to ensure their safety. Another day that won’t be forgotten in a hurry.

I’ve blogged before that I was supporting the London bid for the Olympics, so I’m amazed and delighted that London has won the 2012 olympics. How cool is that!

From del.icio.us/kevan an article about a photographer’s trip to Antarctica and some stunning photographs.

I’ve recently started listening to podcasts on my iPod Shuffle. I’ve been using iPodder to manage and download them, but the most recent version of iTunes manages them as well.

iPodder – is a separate application, but integrates with iTunes and creates a new playlist for each feed within iTunes. I can then just open up the playlist, and pick out the ones I want and move them onto the Shuffle.

iTunes – has a new option for podcasts, and has listed a lot on the music store. Subscribing is easy, and if you have a podcast you like but can’t find on the store, subscribing is as simple as copying the url into a browser window, and then dragging the url into the podcasts window (it took a while to work that out). iTunes doesn’t seem to put them into the main library, so instead I pick up the broadcast I want, and copy it onto the Shuffle.

For the moment, I’ll run with both and see which one works out better for me in the long run.

I went along to the Brighton Bloggers meetup last night at the Earth and Stars (yum, organic bitter). There were some new faces, some familiar faces, and one face I hadn’t seen in a while. All in all a most pleasant evening.