June 2010
Queen and Top Gear in weird merged moment →
On the run up to a new series of Top Gear the more hardcore fans loitering on the Final Gear forums start to get a little bit strange, suffering from withdrawal and desperation.
OK we’re not…
SeeSaw gets premium comedy shows →
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Is embarrassing parents TG video viral? →
Not long ago in my first Top Gear series 14 preview post I included a video of some very embarrassing parents shouting about Top Gear as they passed the presenter in their car on the…
No more music on my iPod thanks to Spotify →
I’ve had ‘the middle’ iPod in one form or another since the first iPod Mini was released in 2004.
And ever since, from the very beginning of my iPod ownership life, music and speech have…
Diet Diary: Starting all over again →
I’ve got a bet with my wife – she doesn’t think I’ll be able to lose two stone by our anniversary at the end of August and I’m adamant I can.
When I was at school I was always a bit chubby, then…
Top Gear set for Sunday 27 June return →
It’s that time of year again, the time when everyone at work gets completely bored with me and when I spend every Sunday evening talking about TV on a message board.
It’s been officially…
New look Glasto site makes use of 6music names →
Every year the BBC relaunches its website for one of the major festivals it covers or, in the case of the Big Weekend – hosts.
The latest site to get this treatment is the Glastonbury…
Google gets all arty with its homepage →
Google have announced the launch of a new feature for its homepage – a Bing like feature that allows users to customise the background.
And to mark the launch they decided, on Thursday 10…
April 2010
In need of Android book library for HTC Tattoo →
My most recent gadget acquisition is a HTC Tattoo, the low end small screen Android based handset from the Taiwanese-based manufacturer.
This is a great little phone, it’s easy to hold, fits in my…
Losing the ability to just sit back and be... →
There may be a couple of spoilers for Doctor Who: Eleventh Hour starring Matt Smith in this blog post – if you haven’t seen it and don’t want to be spoiled don’t read on.
Like many of the…
March 2010
Saving old BBC pages for the future →
The BBC is a big site, there are pages within pages within pages and even deeper than that, there are large sections with multiple sub-sections that have their own top level related sections.
But equally there are certain shows with their own top level site (
Accidentally good carbon footprint shot out the... →
I’m going to be honest with you here, I don’t really care that much about my carbon footprint, I don’t go out of my way to keep it low or do anything special to ’save the earth’.
However, purely…
BBC 6music: the station John Peel would have made →
I’m not just an insufurably grumpy geek, I’m not just the guy complaining about everything in the corner of the office – I’m also the annoying one passing on CDs of new music all the time and raving…
February 2010
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The domain for this Tumblog is howtobeageek.net and I’ve long held high hopes and ambitions for what do use it for - but that’s never actually come to anything so ideas welcome - please!
Chocolate, the internet and the BBC engage →
I get sent a lot of press releases and I ignore almost all of them. Especially the ones that send me a top ten list and talk of a new groundbreaking methodology behind their results.
But I couldn’t…
SeeSaw TV on demand now in CI and Isle of Man →
I wrote a blog post two weeks ago about SeeSaw, the new television on demand service – mainly for archive content.
This service, currently in a limited invite only beta, is born out of the…
10 of the current top 20 podcasts are from the BBC - nice to see History of the World and In Our Time in the top 20 though Top 2 are Radio 4
Just had an e-mail from SeeSaw telling me they’ve not aquired the rights to operate in the islands. Which is nice. http://bit.ly/4dE04k
And more than a quarter of the top 200 podcasts (in the UK) are from the BBC.
Thinking about the Apple iPad with ‘man maths’ →
I’m not going to write a review of the Apple iPad, that would be completely pointless as the most I’ve seen of it is a couple of hands on videos and a few photos.
However, based on that and the…
Love the fact that Google has google.me just wish they’d drop the profiles from the profile url so I can have google.me/ryanmorrison
A new magazine to be launched in April for the Channel Islands called Apocalypse Wow! Arts, Film, Music Current Affairs http://bit.ly/9j3Ugx
Good on ABC for not caving in here but how long can a commercial network hold? http://bit.ly/aNm8ii God bless the BBC
Also - why am I not getting a Google Buzz button in Gmail?
Twenty Ten or Two Thousand and Ten? The Tens or The Teens?
Oooo Just had Buzz enabled in Gmail but um…. now what? #jerseyci #buzz
How are there 40 thousand people on the Save BBC6music group on Facebook when the Station gets so few listeners? http://bit.ly/dzzuLB
I want my Google profile address to be google.me/ryanmorrison and not Google.com/profiles/ryanmorrison
I tried to write a sitcom about market traders once - two scenes in it was so awful I gave up. Still have it somewhere though.