Best Commute Ever

I did a tandem sky-dive on saturday. One the way down (you have plenty of time to chat up there), my instructor told me of his commute. It is without a doubt the best commute ever…

Him: That’s Apeldoorn over there, and Zwolle to the north.

Me: Oh? Where do you live?

Him: See that house over there, with the red car? It looks very small from up here.

Me: Yes I can see it.

Him: That’s where I live.

Me: Right. So do you just parachute into your garden last jump of the day?

Him: Yes I do.

Japanese strangeness

One of the lesser-known Japanese idiosyncrasies is their widespread fascination with little anime / hentai plastic dolls. When I was in Tokyo (a couple of years ago now), I witnessed this in action. Middle aged men going into a specialist store and drooling over these 10cm dolls with a strange look in their eyes (in the eyes of the men, not the dolls).

I honestly can’t tell you what they do with them. Just put them on top of their PlayStations I’m hoping?

BBC Drops Ball

July 12th, 2007

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BBC drops the ball

In an act of particularly impressive myopia, the BBC is about to go live with its new iPlayer service for Windows only! Curious indeed that a publicly funded organization with a mandate to provide services to an entire population went with a system tied to a single DRM and operating system. And I do wonder how much public money has been sunk into Microsoft licensing fees and ‘closed’ technology.

At least they’ve promised to have a Mac version some time in the Autumn. Good luck with that. I’m curious what DRM they’re planning on using…

Personally I think the BBC should drop DRM on its content and just let anyone access it. Yes there are reasons against this (‘TV’ license fee plus resale of content internationally), but frankly, stuff it! Sometimes its just a matter of getting your priorities straight.