“Groovy Motherfucker”

Bugger me backwards, this sounds good. A modernised retelling of Jekyll and Hyde, written by Steven Moffat of Press Gang, Coupling, and Three of the best new episodes of Doctor Who fame. Hooray for the BBC!

This gotcha caught me out too when I was trying to experiment with Vista RC1. Bloody Microsoft.

There’s an instant discount of $1.99 on your first purchase, so you can kick the tyres and download a TV show episode for free. And yes, the DRM they use is strippable using FairPlay4WM.

UltraVNC (my preferred VNC server/client for Windows) has a nifty “single-click”-ish deployment method you can send to someone to control their PC. Requires text-file wrangling and firewall-hole-poking, so it’s not going to clobber CoPilot just yet, but it could be handy.

I’ve just ordered me a “Just Shy - Not Antisocial” one.

IronPython, the Python that compiles to .NET CLR code, has hit 1.0.

Firefox extension to make the error pages more useful — Look up Google’s cache or the Wayback Machine for pages/sites that have disappeared.

Software to merge the timestamps on your photos with the route file from your GPS to automagically geocode your photos ready for Flickr.

My photos from our Scotland trip, overlaid onto a map of Scotland. Hooray for Flickry goodness.

Turns out you can get energy-saving lightbulbs which work with dimmer switches. Who knew! They’re pricey, but I’m getting some to see how they do.

I’ve finally had a chance to test this with files downloaded from Napster and Rhapsody’s subscription services, and it does what it says on the tin. The question of interest: If this could be chained to a transcoder that automagically converted downloads to MP3s that can be played on an iPod, would it cause more customers to sign up for PlaysForSure providers, and damage sales at the iTunes Music Store?

Track where users are clicking on your webpages so you can slap in advertising/tune your site’s usability (delete as appropriate)

Shareware Windows multitrack audio editor from Justin Frankel and co.

Website uptime-monitoring tool. Also graphs response-times which could make for interesting reading. Doesn’t require any authorization, so you can track your competitors’ sites too.

Cabel reviews the Nike+ shoe+iPod combo. Sounds like the kind of thing that might get me moving, like the Sportbrain of olde.

Walmart are making a huge push to get people buying the low-energy spiral bulbs. I’ve been using them since we moved house and I spent far too many hours wandering the aisles of Home Depot while Joy chose paint colours. The only place we still use incandescent bulbs is in the lamps attached to dimmers.

OSX app which downloads YouTube flash videos, converts them to MPEG4, and loads them onto your iPod Video.

The Kransky Sisters’ show “We Don’t Have Husbands” was the best thing I caught at the Fringe. Here’s a small taster of their wonderful character-driven comedy — a cover of the Sugababes song “Overload”.

Ricky Gervais (in character as David Brent) and Stephen Merchant make a “training” film for Microsoft.

Zabs + chums coin a great new sexual term, the “ancient mariner”. Get your clam chowder ready.