Vidzone working at last!

Success at last. I've written before about my problems getting vidzone working, and tonight while taking a breather from some work I tried the Oracle of Google again, and I found a solution. As I suspected, it wasn't a network problem at all. Kudos to lyonix, who suggested that deleting a corrupt cache for Vidzone […]

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Android 1.6 (Donut) initial thoughts

I installed donut earlier this week. This is on my G1 devphone, so I don't recommend you use the htc page otherwise. This time I didn't bother going through all the nonsense with the tools, I just mounted the phone on USB and slapped the image across one by one into the SD card as […]

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Compassion in the Martial Arts

I recently had a conversation with some people who wondered if there could be any place for compassion in the martial arts in general, and certainly in Iaido, or Japanese swordsmanship in particular. It may be useful to start by considering the idea of Bushido, or "the Way of the Warrior". A lot of people […]

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Derren Brown tells porky pies, get over it

Derren Brown has been back on our screens recently with a series of big events. It's brought him a lot of publicity, and a lot of the public comment has been amusing to say the least. I've been watching everyone comment on the TV and Radio that he's a trickster, and his explanations of how […]

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Virgin Media, Netgear and Vidzone

The PS3 has an free network application called Vidzone. I downloaded it when it originally came out some time ago, but it never actually worked. It would load, show playlists, adverts, and the seize up the whole console when I tried to actually play videos. It's a shame, because it looked like a nice app […]

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