May 25, 2005
May 23, 2005
Avoid parking tickets
Magic Words - parking ticket - get out of jail free!
I don't need to tell a jobsworth story - I you ever get a parking ticket on a single or double yellow line check that they have bars at the end. If not, take a piccy and cut and paste these magic words. They have got me off five times so far!
The form of signs and road markings are prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2002 (the Regulations). The Diagrams showing single and double yellow lines are 1017 and 1018 respectively. Both clearly show a T-bar at one end of the yellow line(s). The tables under the Diagrams, at item 4, contain the entry, "Permitted variants: None".
The Regulations therefore permit no variation to the form of the yellow line(s) as shown in the Diagrams, and a T-bar must appear wherever the yellow line stops and starts, for whatever reason. The road markings in question do not conform to this prescribed form and thus have no legal force whatsoever. They terminate at a point where there are no further restrictions in force but do not have the prescribed T bar ending. This violates both the regulations and usual practice. For this reason any parking tickets given on this stretch of road cannot be valid.
May 19, 2005
RSS UK TV feeds
macosxhints - 10.4: Get UK TV listings with Safari's RSS viewer - with some modification would also work on Firefox with LiveBookmarksMay 17, 2005
Philips DVP 5100/05 DivX DVD Player
Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo: Philips DVP 5100/05 - Multi Region Capable DVD Player with DivX - Progressive Scan and WMA playback.
This looks like a good replacement for my Elta DivX DVD player which seems to have some problems accessing the 2nd layer on some DVDs, as well as some difficulties with XVid playback.
May 15, 2005
Accessible Odeon Greasemonkey script
The saga of Accessible Odeon is long, and mainly points to the people running Odeon UK being cretinous. Now there is a greasemonkey script to make the site usable in firefox.May 13, 2005
May 10, 2005
Indy
Indy is a music discovery program that learns what you like, and plays more of it. And it's free.May 06, 2005
Dashboard Widgets
DashboardWidgets - lots of new widgets for MacOS X 10.4 users.May 03, 2005
Sony NW-HD5 20GB Network Walkman
Apart from having to use Sony's apparently tedious softwarem the featureset of the Sony NW-HD5 mp3 player is superb, and it is apparently very very small and light...
