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MS Small Basic

daniel — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:50:49 +0000

Just another baby BASIC variant in an apparently crowded market: Microsoft Small Basic. It includes Turtle graphics!

Layer changes

daniel — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:35:58 +0000

I just got the complete Young Ones new DVD release. Great to see these episodes again (and unlike previous DVDs, uncut).

But unbelievably, they put the disc 1 layer change in the stupidest spot ever. Rather than put it between episodes, or even at a quiet spot within an episode, they put it in the middle of a song (Dexys Midnight Runners singing “Jackie Wilson Said”).

Idiots!

~~Haven’t checked yet where the disc 2 layer change is.~~ The disc 2 layer change is at the start of a song in Time.

Previous rant about DVD layer changes.

CBM BASIC V2

daniel — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 09:12:02 +0000

I’ve previously highlighted BBC BASIC for Windows.

Now there’s Commodore BASIC for Windows, Linux and Mac.

Lost in translation

daniel — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:10:26 +0000

News that council workers in Wales sent an email request to their translation officer to translate the English “No entry for heavy goods vehicles”… what they got in reply was an Out Of Office reply in Welsh, but not realising, they printed that on the sign.

So the Welsh part of the sign reads: “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated.”

Youtube RSS feeds

daniel — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:49:53 +0000

It’s not widely publicised, but Youtube publishes RSS feeds so you can track the latest uploaded videos from your favourite users.

They take the form: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/USER/uploads

Quite handy at times.