Driving that little bit further to work these days gives me loads more time to listen to my iPod. I’m an avid listener of Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code (plus he lives just round the corner from me) but I’m also a Chris Moyles (Radio 1 Breakfast DJ listener). There’s been a bit of banter between the two of them on their respective shows, no direct contact - one plays a clip of the other etc etc. But in the most recent Daily Source Code Adam laid a big fat one down for Moyles - come work for us and we’ll double your salary! Googling for Chris Moyles salary puts him on around £635k a year (Holy cow!!!)! In fact if that wasn’t enough Curry turned round and said if that’s not what you’re earning - name it! This certainly could be an interesting arena to watch - as Curry rightly points out, the target age for Radio 1 are tuning out of listening to the wireless and are now all about iPods and mobile phones. Which is a little odd since new figures announced today put Radio 1 listener figures at around 7million.
Lastnight was the London leg of the Flex 3/AIR tour hosted in London with a good turn out of around 200 people - I think the free beer from Adobe went down well too. A good few features of the new FB3 were shown - along with the announcement that it will be coming soon! You heard it here first 
The evening ended with hooking up with Matt from Last.fm - one of Nik’s mate and a tour of the Last.fm offices and of course their infamous ball pit!
Sun announces that its aquiring MySQL AB!
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At last Apple have finally fixed the default ‘Top 25 Most Played’ playlist so it shows what you expect it to show in iTunes and on the iPod touch. They have not however fixed the duplicate album name bug that i reported a few months back. Still no way to view podcast show notes either.
I can only think that the whole charging for the ‘January Software Update’ is to make sure that the deployment methods for apps built via the February SDK works correctly. After doing the 1.1.3 update I did buy the software update and rather than seeing a download on clicking ‘BUY’ it flashed upa message on the iPod screen - so merely unlocking code in the 1.1.3 update. The Mail application is worth £12.99 to me along with the Notes app. Anyhow, my iPod touch is feeling less like a Ferrari with a Ford Focus engine now as Apple really begin to unharness the power of this thing (minus the phone of course)
Pipex was once a good ISP here in the UK - back when it was part of UU-Net and one of the UK backbone providers. Recently ISPs here in the UK have undergone change and are slowly one by one being absorbed under bigger providers - and then degrading in service. I am currently using Pipex and have been for the past 4 years. For the past couple of weeks i’ve been struggling to get onto the iTunes music store or update my podcast subscriptions after around 6pm. I didn’t think much of it, putting it down to network issues but having finally gotten fed up Googled it, only to find that other Tiscali users have been suffering this since summer last year! I thought, ha - good job i’m not with Tiscali only then to read a few posts later that Pipex was absorbed into Tiscali last year and upon doing a traceroute found out that my traffic was indeed going through Tiscali routers!! I can only guess that Pipex users were migrated over to the Tiscali network quite recently. Bahhhhh! So now I’m stuck, unable to use iTunes when i get home from work, nor update my podcasts. I’m going to suffer their hold music to demand my MAC code tonight to migrate away from them as quickly as possible!
It would seem that Google updated their Gmail client for the iPhone/Touch yesteday. Looks a bit more polished and buttons have been added at the top of the screen as well as the bottom.
So today was my first day at Monochrome and was duly tasked with formatting and reinstalling XP onto my ‘temporary’ (eh Nik?) workstation. There in the problem lies. I was setting up Apache and creating seperate vhost config files - I’d cheerily created my mydomain.conf file in the /conf/vhosts directory as you do, edited the httpd.conf file to include the httpd-vhosts.conf file which i’d edited to wildcard include all *.conf files in the vhosts folder. For almost an hour I struggled trying to get it to work as it simply wouldn’t start. Checking permissions, checking the file name (or so i thought!!!) etc. etc. etc. To save further embarrassment I’ll cut to the moral of the story - there’s a setting in windows ‘Hide file extensions for known file types’ - just make sure you untick it as soon as darn possible - so you don’t end up with files named like mydomain.conf.txt! It’ll have you stumped for hours!
Happy New Year everyone - let’s hope 2008 is even better than 2007, I know for me it will be - starting a new job tomorrow and getting married in September!
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