Alex Muller

Positive? – no, I haven’t gone crazy just yet. A little over a month ago I got an email from “10 Downing Street” saying that the Government had responded to an online petition with almost 3000 signatures, asking for the piccadilly line to stop at Turnham Green station. They responded with a complete we-can’t-be-bothered cop-out:

Responsibility for London Underground (LU) transferred from the Department for Transport to Transport for London (TfL) and ultimately the Mayor in July 2003. It is for LU and not the Government to determine the service patterns and timetabling on the underground network. This issue would be best directed to the London Underground Stakeholder Communications Team at 55 Broadway, London, SW1H 0BD.

However, yesterday I received a response about a petition asking for the BBC’s iPlayer to be available for other operating systems then Microsoft’s Windows – this was the reply:

…the Trust noted the strong public demand for the service to be available on a variety of operating systems. The BBC Trust made it a condition of approval for the BBC’s on-demand services that the iPlayer is available to users of a range of operating systems, and has given a commitment that it will ensure that the BBC meets this demand as soon as possible. They will measure the BBC’s progress on this every six months and publish the findings.

Much more positive – perhaps it does work after all…

I like the stats, so…

2065 – number of emails in Gmail since October 26th, 2004 3067 – number of digg.com stories and videos I’ve dugg 6987 – number of RSS entries read in Google Reader over the last 30 days 8095 – number of songs scrobbled to last.fm since May 17th, 2006

Interested to see the statistics that last.fm are going to generate with their new audio fingerprinting application

It’s half one in the morning, so the obvious thing to do was to post about how much I want to sleep…

Firstly: PowerPoint for the Mac is a pile of steaming horribleness – I can’t find a way (right now at least) to make it do a presentation on my widescreen laptop… so I’m using Keynote, which I don’t know half as well – though the presentation doesn’t look half bad

Secondly: Facebook has now been encoding my video for the last two hours – that would be fine, except that this is a 1MB, 20 second cameraphone clip… hardly HD taxing

Edit: Thirdly: WordPress just screwed up all the paragraph formatting on this, so I had to fix it… why now???

I wasn’t intending this to turn into The Movie Blog, but I’ve seen a few films recently, so here goes:

It’s weird what this film’s done to me – the background very briefly, for those who don’t know, is that Jim Carrey is turned insane by the number 23. After seeing the film this evening, I’ve started seeing the number everywhere – you don’t have to believe this, but I can promise you it’s no joke: my friend’s CD player was paused on track twenty-three, there were 23 cars parked on the side of the street we walked down, and you’ll never guess what table we sat at to eat… by the way, GBK is delicious.

Spooky, but the film sums it up nicely: once you start looking for something, you see it everywhere