"The broadcaster was to launch a series of radio stations, including a competitor to BBC Radio 4, and youth music channel E4 Radio, as part of a second digital radio platform that would carry a host of other new channels." - Matt Biddulph
some nice notes on the process of updating an iPhone app, including moving from filesystem to sqlite storage and doing parallel HTTP requests because latency is more of a problem than bandwidth. - Matt Biddulph
Martti Ahtisaari, "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts" - Matt Biddulph
instructions on compiling the very useful mysqlslap benchmarking tool from 5.1 for use with 5.0. summary: use --without-server option on the 5.1 source to make it compile quick, and statically link so you can use the binary in more places. - Matt Biddulph
he's not happy with the choices Canon made in the Mk II upgrade versus the 5D. personally I'll be upgrading from a 350D to a 5D so I expect the positive differences to more than outweigh the rest. - Matt Biddulph
"And nobody wants to play bass. So if you want to lead a full band, you're going to have to play bass yourself.". I've always been a bass player. Guitar never appealed to me. - Matt Biddulph
my current headphones - the best-sounding and most comfortable headphones I've ever had. closed-backed, so very good for the office and planes. - Matt Biddulph
"I have decided to look at demographics in London and compare them to the Tesco Express locations throughout the major city. The type of demographic that is prevalent in areas in London that have a high amount of Tesco Express locations might be able to give us a idea of how to decide which cities in the U.S. might be the right location for Fresh and Easy markets to be established." - Matt Biddulph
a BBC News project tracking a shipping container for a year. visualisation uses modestmaps and it looks like the underlying data is easily accessible - Matt Biddulph
