Youtube boast off the back of Amstrad

As if from nowhere a video I posted last week on Youtube has had 24,200 viewers in 6 days! It is currently the 31st most viewed video (UK) this week, and the 6th most linked, 10,021 links (UK). My previous best had been 1,900 views of a video of my plane landing at Heathrow. That had simply amused me that there are so many plane-spotters out there. I'd taken the video as the flight had been interminable.

The Amstrad video can be found on Cnet in an article entitled "Top Ten laughably bad tech ads", where 10,000 of the views have come from.

Should I be pleased with this? In the great scheme of things it means bugger all, but on the other hand my alter ego dmt has finally registered in the blogosphere. So yes, I'm chuffed.

How to do a Screengrab

So you want to do a screengrab? Here's how:

1) Choose screen

2) Press Ctrl + PrintScrn

The pc saves the exact image of your desktop

3) Go to Start>All Programs>Accessories>Paint

4) Once Paint is loaded press ctrl+V (paste)

5) With the crop tool - the top right hand tool at the top left of the screen - select which image you want.

6) Once you've made your selection press ctrl+c (copy your selected image), then ctrl+n (for a new window) then ctrl+v to paste it into the new window.

7) Then manipulate image to make it seem like you were watching The Bill - see below.

Live TV online

Above is a screen grab of ITV's website. You can now watch ITVs 1, 2, 3 and 4 online on a live stream. You can only use this feature through Internet Explorer 5.5 or above as it uses DRM. When I did the screen grab the video image of 'This Morning' didn't save. I cheated and took a screen grab of The Bill on Youtube and then copied it into the player above right to give an approximation of what it looks like. Unlike Youtube which really suffers because of the compression used, ITV's picture is really very sharp. You can also detach the player so that it runs in Windows Media Player on your desktop. Could prove very handy for the rugby.
Its free and you don't have to sign up and register, though you probably have to be in the UK.

Its the end of the world as we know it...

...and I feel fine

Further to my previous rage against the green machine, I’m slowly but surely not caring about the environment anymore. Its not like I’m going out burning tires for fun or pouring oil on wetlands. Its just I’m no longer concerned if I leave my tv on standby, nor if my phone charger is never taken out of the socket. I’m being defeatist I’m afraid. Al Gore chatted a lot of crap in his film, but I was interested in his treatise about Greenland and what happens when the ice melts. He didn’t mention the earthquakes. It now seems that Greenland is melting faster than predicted, and that the glaciers are moving at an astonishing 1 metre a day. Sorry, I just reread the article. The ice is moving at 2 metres per hour!

Now try telling me that by switching off all the dvd players in the world that that will somehow slow the speed of the melting.

Facebook vs Google

No posts for a long time so I thought that I should do some. I haven't been posting as I have either been pissing about on Facebook of blogging on the Guardian websites, neither of which is really that constructive.
Right then. From today Facebook is starting to make everybody's profiles available on Google. This means that in a month's time, when the project is complete, you'll be able to google "Your Name" and find out all about anybody. Not strictly true as the google result will just be your name and photo, but should the searcher have a Facebook login then they can delve deeper.
Of course what this really comes down to is how restrictive your security settings are. Do you even know where to find your security settings? (They're in the privacy bit of your profile).
It won't dampen my addiction to Facebook, unless I get a new job. I'll make a point of getting a job from someone who isn't my friend so they can't see how long I'm on it for. Of course they could google this blog but at least they'd need to know the name first...