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!
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 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..
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.
This might be the start of a new meme type thing, or perhaps just one that’s been done hundreds of times before. So, take a screenie of your desktop and trackback to this post… We’ll see how many tidy and untidy desktops we get linked back.
How tidy is your desktop?
Mine isn’t! ^
They say a messy desktop is very reflective of a messy personality. Actually they don’t but it sounds like something “they” would say! 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…
If you’re using K2, as I am - don’t upgrade to WordPress 2.5 just yet. It breaks because K2 doesn’t use WordPress widgets, in favour of it’s own set of widgets. It’s a good thing I backed everything up this time!
The upgrade causes this error…
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_register_sidebar_widget()
when you try to display the admin dashboard. I googled a bit and found a post which kind of fixed the problem but not quite. The altered code appeared at the top of every page. After jumping in the #wordpress IRC channel to see what was what, I was advised to restore the backup and wait. So that’s what I’ve done and what I will do.
UPDATE
Well I waited and got impatient because WordPress 2.5 just looks that good! And it is!! I upgraded my K2 to the latest nightly version and then upgraded WordPress, it worked fine. Read about it here.
In other news…
I’m packing my bags to head home for a week. My train is at 1pm (BST) Tuesday and if you like, you can track the progress of my journey via bliin.com - zoom to Norwich and look for the green circle moving south! It’ll be updated in real-time using the GPS in my phone. I have a draft post about bliin which I’ll finish off and publish sometime when I’m back home.
Been working full time these past couple of weeks, got a few posts in the pipeline though. This blog isn’t dead yet! For some reason the visual editor on my WordPress install decided to not work and I couldn’t be bothered with fixing it but it’s working again now.
In other news, Chris Moyles, (self-proclaimed) saviour of Radio 1, is off on holiday for two weeks. I’m not a huge fan of Scott Mills either, so does anyone have any morning radio suggestions?
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…
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