I think i got one of the best compliments from a work colleague I could get on Friday, it came after a email discussion about were to go drinking that night.He said to go to the Intrepid Fox (which has now closed down) When I popped this fact out he said "I work in Camden now Kev, though granted
your job does require an up to date knowledge of the Soho drinking scene"
It does doesn't it thats when I realised I probably do have one of the best jobs in the world, bang in to the middle of Soho, working with some of the best minds in Television and Film. Helping people make everything for Adverts to the next Oscar winner. What could I want more?
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Saturday, September 30
compliments
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sat 30 Sep 2006 21:36 BST
Thursday, September 28
BBC and Microsoft join farces, sorry i mean forces
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 28 Sep 2006 15:01 BST
BBC
director general Mark Thompson and Microsoft's Bill Gates have signed
an agreement to work on exploring opportunities for the delivery and
consumption of BBC content.
The plans include an online archive, and radically overhauled website and other ways to share online content in the future. Thompson said the BBC needed to forge strategic partnerships with technology companies for the benefit of licence payers. Highfield added that Microsoft was a key supplier to the BBC and that it was a gateway to audiences through web services such as MSN and Windows Live Messenger and hardware such as Xbox and Windows Media Center. He added: "The BBC needs to work with all players in this space to make sure our content is enjoyed by the widest possible audience, without them having to come to bbc.co.uk to find it." Areas of potential collaboration include search and navigation, distribution and content enablement. Any actual procurements of new technology or launch of new services by the BBC would be subject to regulatory approval. ---- But as a license payer does that mean I'm paying for everyone to see it around the world, where is the added value for me? Monday, September 25
Lesson One
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 25 Sep 2006 21:28 BST
Well i'm just back from my first ever Driving Lesson, eeeeekkkk.
Oh what fun it can be moving a big metal box around with your hands and feet.Crazy as it may seem I think I'm quite good at it. We did some left turns and right turns as well as lots of pulling away and stopping. Next week lesson 2 Friday, September 22
Thank god for that. Ricky Gervais shuts his mouth for once
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 22 Sep 2006 14:54 BST
Ricky Gervais is to quit producing podcasts joking he had to "knock it on the head before everyone hates us. I
was trying something out. I wanted to see if I could cut out the middle
man and make podcasting a commercial concern."
----- Sorry Ricky everyone hates you already...stopping podcast isn't going to change that.
Tuesday, September 19
Microsoft's Zune will not play protected Windows Media Audio
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 19 Sep 2006 16:10 BST
EFF says Microsoft's Zune will not play protected Windows Media Audio and
Video purchased or "rented" from Napster 2.0, Rhapsody, Yahoo!
Unlimited, Movielink, Cinemanow, or any other online media service.
It seems that all of the 'PlaysforSure' media that has been sold and is currently being sold will not play on the Zune. In addition, Microsoft has now advocated violating the DMCA in order to transfer files to the player. Microsoft Zune architect J Allard was quoted as saying there's 'Lots of DVD ripping software out there that encodes to those formats, so the most popular formats out there, whether it's MPEG-4 or H.264, we'll support those.'" full article http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004910.php Monday, September 18
another Beau Bo D'or Classic
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 18 Sep 2006 17:25 BST
Friday, September 15
Fancy a XBOX 360 portable.
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 15 Sep 2006 16:02 BST
Ben Heckendorn has re-configured his console into a laptop form-factor. With a resolution of 1,280 x 720, it's HD ready. Portable XBOX 360.
BT launches YouTube service with a podcast twist
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 15 Sep 2006 10:21 BST
BT has unveiled plans to launch a podcasting site. It has teamed up with the Podshow Network.
UK version ... more »
Sunday, September 3
Save the Intrepid Fox
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 03 Sep 2006 19:29 BST
The Intrepid Fox has existed since 1784, and in recent years it has been one of the remaining havens for fans of the goth and alternative culture of London.(other than The SHIP on the same street) The owning brewery has recently sold the property to developers, who wish to turn it into flats. The Intrepid Fox is due to close on September 11th 2006. While the news has been released at very short notice (no doubt to
the advantage of the sellers and buyers, if not the management and
punters), I believe that it is still worthwhile lodging a complaint
with relevant parties. It may not make a difference, it may be too
late, but the Fox is one of the last bastions (particularly in central
London) of the alternative/gothic culture and well worth stating a
desire to protect. (even if the toilets are sometime very smelly) Save The Intrepid Fox Petition There is more information and further contact details at http://www.intrepidfox.com Evening Standard. To read it, visit http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/restaurants/article-23365362-details/Last%20orders%20at%20Soho%20rock%20pub/article.do
Mitsubishi announces 1920x1080 projectors for home-use
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 03 Sep 2006 17:54 BST
Can I have one for christmas.... hc5000
http://global.mitsubishielectric.com/bu/projectors/products/homeuse/hc5000/index_b.html with a price of below £2000
You know how much I love banging on about SOCPA
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 03 Sep 2006 17:23 BST
Well last thursday the was a Mass Lone Protest The police presence was
minimal (three coppers stood in the shade of a tree about a hundred
yards away). The highlight was a live
TV broadcast by BBC London allowed the 120 people there to reach a
much larger audience than just the tourists gawping from the open-top
buses. (Watch the broadcast here.I take great relish in pointing out the undemocratic idiocy of SOCPA.
The video's also worth watching to see Mark Thomas take Tory London Assembly
member Brian Coleman to pieces. Coleman protested against the protests.
Without police permission.) Arrest that man, officer.
Previous SOCPA posts: http://blog.kking.co.uk/blog/_archives/2006/7/17/2132097.html http://blog.kking.co.uk/blog/_archives/2006/8/25/2263061.html Friday, September 1
Tuner not found in Media Centre 2005
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 01 Sep 2006 00:47 BST
Last night I got Tuner Not Found error messages when trying to view and TV in Media Center 2005. This was after installing and windows express update. I looked at the update and it had installed .Net 2.0 for some reason it had turned off some services and now wouldn't restart them without an error message I used the following steps to fix these services, and once I did this, live TV started working again in Media Center 2005 with Update Rollup 2.
%windir%\ehome\ehrecvr.exe /unregServer %windir%\ehome\ehsched.exe /unregServer %windir%\ehome\ehrecvr.exe /service %windir%\ehome\ehsched.exe /service Tuesday, August 29
Second John Peel day is announced, its 12 October
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 29 Aug 2006 14:45 BST
Microsfot DRM hacked
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 29 Aug 2006 14:40 BST
A program called Fairuse4wm has been posted on the net
and is apparently capable of breaching Microsoft's Digital Rights
Management (DRM) system.
FairUse4WM is a GUI version of drmdbg that supports individualization version .3930 and some WM11 versions. Basic requirements 1. Only works on individualized DRM file 2. Requires WM10 or WM11. Won't work on WM9. Monday, August 28
Friday, August 25
Police deal with protest deluge
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 25 Aug 2006 09:34 BST
Apple recall on laptop batteries
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 25 Aug 2006 08:48 BST
"We discovered that some Sony batteries in previous models of PowerPC-based iBooks and PowerBooks do not meet Apple's standards for safety and performance," Apple said in a statement.
Remedy: Consumers should stop using the recalled batteries immediately and contact Apple to arrange for a replacement battery, free of charge. After removing the recalled battery from their iBook or PowerBook, consumers should plug in the AC adapter to power the computer until a replacement battery arrives. Consumer Contact: : Contact Apple at (800) 275-2273 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. CT Monday through Sunday or log on to Apple’s Web site at http://support.apple.com/batteryprogram to check the battery’s serial number and request a replacement battery. Thursday, August 24
sorry for the outage
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 24 Aug 2006 17:18 BST
Well it seems my blog was getting a little popular and I exceeded my bandwidth allocation, so I've upgrade my site and we are back rocking and rolling.
Tuesday, August 22
The News at Ten, Bonk
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 22 Aug 2006 15:58 BST
Swedish state broadcaster SVT is in hot water after accidently broadcasting some
sizzling Czech action as a backdrop to Saturday's ... more »
Houston...not just Oil but a Zoo too
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 22 Aug 2006 14:11 BST
   Just left Houston had a great time and met some great people, never one to shy away from going clubbing on a night. I tried Houstons local alt. club Numbers and was pleasantly suprised. Met some great people in there and danced to some classic 80's tunes. Also ventured out to the Zoo to please my monkey fetish and I was not disappointed. (see pictures here)
WEP encryption cracked easily and quickly...
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 22 Aug 2006 13:55 BST
http://tapir.cs.ucl.ac.uk/bittau-wep.pdf
Worried about continued toWEP at home, this new research finally provides a crack that's usable, within a few hours. You'd need access via another connection to a host already on the internet, some carefully selected hardware and this new software, but you can in about 2 hours read all the traffic, and connect to and use the network. Time to change encryption
from friend winjer
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 22 Aug 2006 01:34 BST
 http://www.netcu.org.uk/ The National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit, everyone's friend from the Clowns to the Animal rights Anti Thursday, August 17
6 Airports in 4 days.. If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 17 Aug 2006 16:30 BST
Today is Thursday......it must be Dallas. This mornings image...
 Had a great day yesterday in Seattle, all I can say is what a cool city. Very chilled out people and what a great place to work. Nice to show what a little company in London can do and have the big boys listen and lap it up. Anway back to the treadmill Tuesday, August 15
Strange things you find in hotel rooms
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 15 Aug 2006 15:48 BST
Part of me was really scared to read this and the other park went, what the worst that could happen.... more »
M$ 1 Sony 0
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 15 Aug 2006 14:52 BST
Friend Roy did post:
Microsoft have just pulled their joker out of the hat before the Playstation3 launch. After learning from the original xbox hackers and giving the 360 a mediacentre, (they did Actually credit the xbox hackers in their launch video), they've now announced that they will not only allow homebrew content on the 360, they are encouraging it! http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=10458 And Sony must be sick to their stomach as they were the most well known company for doing this with their PS1 Net Yaroze project. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Yaroze Monday, August 14
check in hell or getting there is half the fun
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 14 Aug 2006 04:28 BST
Stay at home, stay tucked up in bed. Thats what my "horrorscope" said this morning. Waking up knowing that I had to got Heathrow I tried to mentally prepare myself for the pain. So i got cleaned up and picked up my last few things and turned on the work mobile. I had a message from 10pm on Saturday night. "Mr King this is to inform you that your flight to Vancouver is now leaving at 12:30 and not the time advertised." PANIC, I'm standing in East London at 9.30 thinking I should be at Heathrow now, thanks for the ...So I get my cases together get on the tube and get going on the hammersmith and city line to paddington to get the Heathrow Express. London Underground don't let me down I need you today please I screamed and woe betide the man who wishes for London Underground not to fail. It pulls a classic out of the hat and deals me "person taken ill in the train in front". I we hadn't been stuck in a tunnel then I think I would have got out there and got a taxi to Paddington. Finally after what seems like hours we get going we get to Baker Street, they is an announcement which I don't hear because I'm listening Johnny Cash "Hurt" on the old Iriver. Which is that the train will now terminate at Edware Road, one stop short of Paddington. We get to Edware Road everyone disembarks its 10.50am I'm getting stopped at every turn I'm starting to feel like John Clease in "Clockwise". Bugger the tube, Jump into a cab the one stop to Paddington. Get my ticket for the express and then I turn the corner and see a almighty queue of about 200 people, my heart sinks then I notice all the shirts they are all wearing blue, they are Chelsea fans going to the charity shield match and not going to the airport, result. Well I get on the heathrow express and can you guess what happens....yes points failure at airport crossover. Joy oh joy. Its 11.20 we get to Heathrow I rush upstairs and am greeted by a scene out of a nightmare I once had, everywhere is people with bags trying to get into the terminal. I'm think noway am I going to get into the terminal before 12.30 never mind that checkin will be closed. That is when an angel appeared, in a high-vis jacket "Which flight sir?" "The 12:30 to Vancouver but I think I'd have missed it" "No sir you haven't come with me" and with that she clears away through the throng and escorts me to the Air Canada checkin, the high-vis girl drops me next to the air cananda queue and an attendant say "Which flight sir?" "the 12:30 to Vancouver", "Oh Sir that flight has been delayed you'll be travelling at 3.30pm, what the original time that flight was booked for?" "Yes Sir". At this point my body stopped work, my mind crashed....the red mist disappeared....I've never been happier to have a 3 hour delay in a airport. so after a nine and half hour flight with no music and a v. poor entertainment system, X-men was really bad the first time, and the only consolation was that I had a very nice person called Kate next to me to speak to I'm here in Vancouver. So it 4.30am Monday UK time so I'm off to bed now.
 Friday, August 11
Happy Birthday "the PC"
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 11 Aug 2006 11:05 BST
Today is the PC's 25th Birthday, 25 years ago IBM displayed their 5150 to the public, oh what have you done!
 Monday, August 7
The review of the funding of political parties
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 07 Aug 2006 15:51 BST
Every wanted to have a bit of fun at the political parties expense, well here is you chance. check out ... more »
Modern Etiquette
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 07 Aug 2006 11:00 BST
From the Independent this morning there was a piece in Extra about the use of Modern Etiquette by J.H.M. Walsh.... more »
Saturday, August 5
Communting
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sat 05 Aug 2006 11:12 BST
I saw this article on the BBC website it says that the average commute is now 139 hours a year, so I thought I'd work out how long I spend in on my commute into London, and I wasn't shocked to find it is 348 hours or 14 and half days a year. (45 minutes each way, it’s the same on bike or tube) Apparently the average on the survey for London is 225 hours per year. Which works out at 29 minutes each way, personally I can only think of one person who I know that has a commute of about that. I would love to know what the definition of London they are using, is that greater London all the way to the M25 or people working in the main core say working inside Tube zone 3.
The Math of the Journey 225 hours = 13500 minutes working days in a year 260 - (20holidays - 8 bank holidays) = 232 working days 13500 / 232 = commute per day 58.189 minutes per day 29.1 minutes each way University of the West of England academics, urged commuters to use the time to "re-energise". Reading the paper, sleeping or day-dreaming had benefits, they said. HAHAHAHA they have never been on the Tube in rush hour have they. If you can get a seat away for the woman who forgot to put her makeup on before leaving the house and is trying in vein to do it on a bouncing train and not to look like koko the clown or the commuter with there Ipod so loud that you can just about make out the whole tune that you can sing along. Then you might be the lucky to daydream just before getting shoved in the back by someone with backpack or a handbag who has zero space awareness.. ah the joys of commuting Friday, August 4
Galway
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 04 Aug 2006 21:41 BST
I
   I spent the early part of this week in Galway Ireland, I've got to say the countryside was lovely and amazing place. I've posted some more pictures in my flickr acount. Monday, July 31
bring out your dead...Quack
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 31 Jul 2006 15:13 BST
pple has asked owners of its 15in MacBook Pro notebook who bought their
machine between February and May 2006 to ... more »
HDMI Standard evolves
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 31 Jul 2006 10:31 BST
While talking in the office James mentioned that there was going to be yet another leap in the HDMI Standard, ... more »Sunday, July 30
Shaken not Stirred
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 30 Jul 2006 20:38 BST
The 007 stage at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire has been destroyed by fire. The sets we currently being removed after ... more »
The strange things that turn up in your log files
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 30 Jul 2006 18:36 BST
I was doing a bit of house keeping on my webserver this afternoon and came across the very strange entry ... more »
Saturday, July 29
Image processing the microsoft way
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sat 29 Jul 2006 22:41 BST
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/whatis/default.html
Photosynth is a new image processing technology from Microsoft that takes a collection of images (say, of a famous ... more » Wednesday, July 26
Oh the Joys of ordering online
by
The Trained Monkey
on Wed 26 Jul 2006 00:07 BST
On Friday I ordered a USB tv tuner for my new pc. I did the normal web search for the ... more »
Tuesday, July 25
Digital music player for the serious
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 25 Jul 2006 09:40 BST
Wi-fi music player gets serious
it plays for Compressed formats (MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, MP2, MusePack, WMA), Uncompressed formats (AIFF, WAV, PCM) and of course Lossless Formats (Apple Lossless, FLAC, WMA Lossless) It seem they really have up'd their game and not compromised with any of the parts or connectors in this one and at $1,999 (£1,079) is not that too pricey for the audiophile pockets. DataSheet Manufactures website
AMD to buy graphics vendor ATI for $5.4B
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 25 Jul 2006 00:15 BST
It’s a TLA Day, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has agreed to buy Canadian
graphics chip vendor ATI Technologies Inc. for about $5.4 billion in cash and stock, the companies announced today. Rumors that AMD would buy ATI have circulated for a couple of months. If approved, the deal will add significantly to AMD's product line, bringing in a lineup of cutting-edge graphics chips and chip sets that include integrated graphics capabilities. Much like the Intel line up Sunday, July 23
dreamspace accident
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 23 Jul 2006 20:48 BST
I took some photos a few years ago of Dreamspace when it was at Mile End, it was a amazing ... more »
Saturday, July 22
Spam
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sat 22 Jul 2006 11:19 BST
Yesterday and this morning I have mostly been fending off a spam attack to my domain offmybox,com, i've been recieving ... more »
Monday, July 17
How to fry an egg... on an Apple MacBook
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:54 BST
Now we know why Apple's notebooks run hot - the company wants you to own a computer you can cook ... more »
Mark Thomas Protest about a Protest
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 17 Jul 2006 13:43 BST
ContentAgent 2.1
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 17 Jul 2006 12:00 BST
James the CTO of Root6 Technology post in his blog
ContentAgent 2.1 has just gone into the final stages of testing. Some of the new features include:
General Enhancements
Capture Enhancements
Image sequence creation
MPEG Multiplexing Workflow node AutoCropping on still frame grabs Export clip metadata as XML This release will be available as a free-of-charge update to all on software maintenance. Sunday, July 16
AutoClav1.1 Photos
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 16 Jul 2006 12:15 BST
I spent most of Saturday on the balcony in the sun correcting photos I'd taken the previous weekend of Tony Young from Autoclav1.1.with some new techniques I've learnt in Photoshop.
Examples of this shoot can be found below, click on a the image to see the larger version and description    ©2006 K2 Visuals There are more if you've got a flickr account ping me a message and i'll add you as a friend |
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