Vive la difference! Now broadcasting in 625 lines.
When I was in London in 2012 for the Olympics, I went to watch a couple of films (and paid handsomely) at the (brand new) Westfield Vue cinema. Wasn't too impressed. Here's some feedback I also emailed to them...
[20/08/2012: Vue responded, click through for the reply.]
Have you been to Vue Westfield recently? Any thoughts on whether it's improved, stayed the same or got worse? Let me know in the comments.
Continue reading "Some open feedback to Vue Westfield Stratford City"
Foobar2000 is such awesomesauce, I use it all day every day. However, I do prefer slightly better titling (particularly as I listen to a mix of Shoutcast & Icecast streams and local files).
Excellent stations like Radio Paradise now have metadata-enabled Ogg Vorbis streams but the way the metadata's encoded into the stream (everything in the title) doesn't work perfectly with fb2k's default playback title display. Here's a concoction I devised which shows it a little more neatly (all hail foobar's epic tagging and display engine!):
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$iflonger(%album artist%,1,[%album artist% - ][%album%[ CD%discnumber% ][, Track %tracknumber%:] ]%title%[ '('%track artist%')'],%title%)
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%codec%[, %codec_profile%] | %bitrate% kbps | %samplerate% Hz | %channels% | %playback_time%[ / %length%] [| Track %tracknumber% | ][Disc %discnumber% of %totaldiscs%]
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$iflonger(%album artist%,1,[%artist% - ]%title%,%title%)
Listen to the rather excellent Radio Paradise Vorbis stream using the rather excellent Foobar2000 player, I highly recommend it.
After just missing the torch in Smethwick, I dashed across town to Bristol Road, where the torch was heading just before reaching Cannon Park. And luckily, I got there with less than fifteen minutes to go - and managed to get an excellent spot for a few snaps!
The Torch sets off again from around 6am at Victoria Square -- check the London 2012, BBC Torch Relay and BBC WM sites for detailed maps and timetables plus live video!
Here's some of what you see before the torch itself rocks up:
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Earlier this week a PayPal phishing email dropped into one of my work inboxes. I usually delete them instantly, but I checked out the compromised URL -- and surprise surprise, it was a UK domain. "OK," I thought, "I can do something about this."
Little did I know that the problem - a hacked subdomain hosting PHP redirector files to HTML on other compromised domains, and a fairly simple one to fix in five minutes - still wouldn't be fixed by the web site owner a week later... Continue reading "If you knew your site had been hacked, would you do anything about it?"