Downloaded a client called PC2TV which allows you to see about 2,000 TV channels from all over the world, including live Saturday afternoon Premiership matches.

Usual teething troubles getting it to work. You get a menu of TV and radio channels available, broken down by country and then select a channel. Needless to say it didn’t work right out of the box. The trouble shooting guide says to check that you have Windows Media Player v10 or later, which I have. It then tells you to start WMP and open up an Albanian WMV url, which will force WMP to download any required video codecs. Did that and the WMV file played, though not very well, but it does prove that the video codecs were in place.

I then tried to watch the same Albanian TV station by browsing its web pages, which I found but which got stuck with a ‘buffering’ message on its TV window. That was probably because I was bittorrenting a few large files at the time, but it does prove that the site existed. Did the reboot rubbish a few times within those steps. Tried the PC2TV client again and still squat.

There are also numerous links to radio stations that broadcast on the net. Tried BBC Radio 5, which I know can be listened to via the BBC’s web pages, and that failed. There is a convenient ‘Report a problem’ control on the client so I better hit on that to find out what I am doing wrong.

Loads of test work < even more applicants

There appears to be loads of testing work around, going by the number of desperate emails I get (I thought eXtreme Programming was going to get rid of you bums? Ed). Seems to be the flavor of the month as there are also now several agencies that specialise in testing positions.

Just received an email from an agency who demand 3 references up front before they’ll even consider you. Whilst that sounds OK, what the agents are really looking for there are leads to other jobs. Naughty, naughty. I’ve got a feeling that despite there being a load of work around there appears to be numerous available testers around too, so for any contract posted there are numerous applicants. Another agent has just said he received 150 resumes via email in response to an advertised position.

Quote of the day

‘We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police’ Jeff Marder