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The Good Life

Been off work last week but didn’t get away due to Sam having a rather troubling bout of tonsillitis. So I’ve been reading and stuff. Which has been quite relaxing and I’m glad to have just had the chance to chill. And while I’d have loved to have gone away for a few days it would have been a nightmare to be in a tent, in the rain with Sam all ill and stuff.

So I’ve been doing some geeky projects. Like installing XP on my MacBook. Which was easy and a little weird going back to XP after six months. The only reason I did it was to see how good/bad the BBC’s iPlayer system is. At the moment it’s only available on XP with media player 10 which is why I had to install XP et al.

So far it’s seems like a fancy pants bit torrent client. The range of programmes isn’t great, a lot of day time tosh, but I’m currently downloading “Indian Food Made Easy” which isn’t the quickest download I’ve seen but I don’t know of any other way I could get to see it again so that’s probably the best reason for getting it. I have no idea what I’m talking about.

So. The quality is good enough, I watched it and I enjoyed it. What I’d love to see is the content of the BBC and the community aspects of Joost combined. I like Joost’s principles (creating community around the programmes) but the content is rubbish. The iPlayer is still in beta, I’m looking forward to the MacOS version and seeing what they have plan for the future. And if they don’t put The Good Life on it I’ll go bonkers. I love The Good Life. The episode when Tom and Margo nearly got it on….. brilliant.

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 TV, Thoughts

1 Comment to Good

  1. Ha! While you were installing XP on your Macbook I was installing Tiger on my PC! Loving the Hackintosh except for the occasional Kernel panics. Can’t have everything you know :). Hope your little’un gets better soon. Tonsillitis is no fun :(

    2. Christina on August 15th, 2007

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