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Hi Richard. By the way,

elliot — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:21:36 -0500

Hi Richard. By the way, thanks for getting in touch about the Fon router: I'm just getting round to your email.

Yes, it is pretty watchable, and they do have good items on there. I think it's just the Webscape woman I find a bit patronising. And the tech guy is very cheesy, as you say.

Click

Richard Tubb — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:16:39 -0500

Personally - I love "Click". They have some interesting pieces on, it's well presented and quick to watch, and it is very English (although seems to have a worldwide audience). I don't tend to find it patronising - but have you ever seen Rob, the ridiculously friendly smiley Tech Support guy on it? Pure Cheese, but you've got to love it!

Open source for normal people

elliot — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:01:03 -0500

The BBC ran an edition of its Click on open source on Saturday. The RealPlayer feed is available from the BBC website. It's fairly interesting, low-level stuff: you know, here's a load of free software ("free" as in beer) you can use instead of that expensive proprietary stuff. There's an interview with Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical (those folk behind Ubuntu) where he talks about space more than software, but reasonably interesting. (I find this programme quite quaint, as they still have a "best websites of the week" section, and it is very English and slightly patronising in places (if you're a techie).)