Now there is something I always ask myself, is there anything worth watching on TV tonight? Probably not but I can never remember what night the Apprentice is on or when…
My quest to find a decent application or website for TV listings has been going on for a while now… But I think I’ve finally found something I like!
Yeah, the Radio Times website is okay but it loves pop-ups, which everyone else hates. I find it quite clunky.
Available from Sourceforge, for Windows and Linux it’s a pretty neat piece of software that’ll has an annoying manual method of selecting channels which took me ages. It also takes ages to download updates from wherever their TV listings are sourced. It’s a good idea but no offence, it’s ugly.
If it’s only terrestrial listings you’re after, you might as well just look at TVEasy in the morning and be done with it.
If it’s only a few select shows you want to know about, including ones from America. This one is good because you can filter by show rather than channel but not everything is on there. It tends to be only popular shows, Lost, 24 etc..
But the winner, for me at least, has got to be…
It’s simple and looks pretty good, shows are colour coded by genre and best of all you can select what TV package you’ve got (Virgin in my case) and it’ll display all your channels so you don’t have to go through and manually select them all. Hovering over a show gives a bit of information about it.. You can extend the grid to show up to 9 hours of TV all on the same page and you can check out what’s on up to a week in the future.
For me it is only partly true, I’d say. My desktop is covered in mainly downloaded video/audio/image content, screenshots (ironically), scripts I’m testing at the moment, folders full of stuff I have yet to properly organise nicely into my home directory, random files of interest and just rubbish! Time for a spring clean I think…
What’s 
Spam Increase
Spam is probably one of the things I hate most about the Internet. I despise it, who doesn’t?! It’s a lose-lose situation and yet it thrives. Companies out there are paying people money (probably quite a lot too) to spam which while not illegal is a really unethical business practice but where’s the return on their investment? Unless I’m the only person who doesn’t click on all the links in my spam emails and comments? How can it be worth their while spending all this money for something which 99.99% of their target audience are going to ignore… and so some people go to extraordinary lengths to filter spam, the spammers still slave away figuring out ways to do their evil deed.
It’s interesting watching the spam start to build up on here since it has moved to the new location. I got hit by 20 or so very similar comment spams yesterday and 5 since I removed those just now. Akismet was doing a perfect job of protecting against them but no spam filtering system can be perfect and it let one through the net, I suppose I can’t complain though.
It’s shocking that, according to Akismet statistics, only 10% of blog comments are ham (aka. not spam!)… So keep sending me your ham, not literally obviously - that wouldn’t work. Just be aware, I’ve got comment moderation enabled for your first-time ham comments but any comments after that should get through without a hitch