Nick Jackson

It’s Disney taking the piss out of Disney. Fantastic.

Truuuue loooove’s kiiiiiss.

As strange, unexpected, slightly bizzare websites go, this one does pretty well.

The girls are hot, but the rest of the scenes are either disturbing or having an element of fetish (Or more likely both).

Make of it what you will.

I’m currently listening to some random Polish music on Siren FM, the University of Lincoln’s radio station (And the first UK university radio station to get an FM broadcast licence). It seems to be part of the Polish Programme, Mondays between 8pm and 9pm.

I love university, life can be so random sometimes.

If you’re not within Lincoln you won’t be able to tune in to Siren on 107.3 FM, but you can all listen online.

I’m sure you’ve all heard of podcasts - the ability to download audio or video snippets which a site publishes in an RSS feed. However, a lot of them are nothing more than a self-centred fool with a computer and a microphone yabbering on about stuff of little interest to the rest of the world (Much like this blog, but at least I have readers).

I have been known to subscribe to the BBC Radio 4 Comedy podcast for my weekly fix of current affairs comedy, but have never subscribed to someone just rambling on. Until today.

Stephen Fry’s podcast is a thoroughly pointless ramble, and an entertaining listen.

RSS links below for both podcasts, or whack the “iTunes” link to plug it straight into the wonderfully ubiquitous music player.

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 (iTunes)
Stephen Fry’s Podgram (iTunes)

My iPhone has been playing silly buggers for a few days now, so I decided to bite the bullet and do a restoration on it. Having had some experience of restoring various gadgets to factory settings and the subsequent pain of getting them back how I liked them, this was something I approached with no small amount of trepidation.

Dock iPhone… it shows up in iTunes and predictably throws up an Unknown Sync Error (-39). No worry, I’ve already decided to click the “Restore” button. A single approval window appears, and I confirm my intent.

iTunes goes away and unpacks the new firmware, wipes my phone, re-flashes it and then restarts it without any input from me. I even went and played on Facebook whilst it was getting on with it. Next thing I know, the iTunes icon is merrily bopping away in my Dock and asking me if I would like to set my iPhone up as a whole new device or if it should just restore my backup.

Simply put, I restored my backup and it’s currently got all my settings (As far as I can tell) absolutely as I left them and is busy restoring all my media/contacts/email and so on. Apple wins for easy fixing of mildly broken phone, infinitely easier than fixing most other broken devices, even those with so-called ‘one-click recovery’. Even so, it worries me that people feel the need to put in a big “Fix It” button no matter how easy to use it is. Perhaps a more elegant solution would be an option tucked away in a menu, and a ‘cock-up counter’ which automatically asks you something like “Your device has failed to sync properly the past 10 times you have docked it - would you like to run an automated recovery and restoration of your backup?”

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Apparently the wonderful University of Lincoln have acquired some bicycle storage huts, allowing students with everybody’s favourite two-wheeled transit method to lock them up securely. Students have to provide their own padlock, but this is only to be expected and is no more unusual than any other bicycle storage method. However, I spotted a slight problem in the message telling us about this.

There are three huts by the GCW Library and a further six by the Sports Centre on the Brayford campus.

So by my maths that’s a grand total of nine secure bicycle huts. For a student and staff body of somewhere in the region of 30,000. (more…)

So, there I was idly clicking through iTunes when I stumbled upon the trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Despite Mr. Ford looking a bit older (well, significantly older to be honest) it still looks like it could be somewhere on the other side of awesome.

I then, given the nature of the intertubes, went clicking around a bit and found my second dose of awesome of the day. LEGO Indiana Jones: The Game. All three classic films in LEGO goodness.

I’d like to start with a genuine quote from the University of Lincoln’s Public Security Policy, available on the university’s internal Portal system under the first entry for a search on “security policy”:

The University has an obligation to balance these 2 requirements. Occassionally these requirements will conflict…..academic freedom…. blah

To which my only reply can be “dude”. It appears that the only publicly accessible version of the Public Security Policy is a draft.

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