This is something I wouldn’t normally post on the blog but I thought it was so funny that it needed to be shared. This is not a typical but students (like me) have been to fall asleep in lectures in the past. I have some wonderful friends that we nice enough to document me falling asleep in the middle of a lecture. The funniest thing about this picture is the time of day, 10.42am. To be fair the lecture was boring as hell.

I thought that I would start the Time capsule with something a want us all to remember, the pleasure of getting everyone around a table for a Sunday dinner. With everyone pitching in, laughing and enjoying themselves. How ever we act in the week, it is important to remember these moment, happy and with friends. This picture is after everything is finished and we are all tucking into the pudding, the best bit of any meal.

	BBC iPlayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/ The BBC puts all their original content from TV and radio from the last 7 days on the Iplayer. A copy can be downloaded to your PC and kept for 30 days. There is also a web based version that uses flash, like youtube that can be streamed online and can be viewed full screen. It doesn’t only work in your browser, but also works on the IPhone/Ipod Touch, Wii and Media Center/XBOX 360. There are some really good shows on the iplayer, like Mock the week and Nevermind the Buzzcocks. This is an amazing service, easy to use, quick and lots of great content.
	ITV Catchup http://www.itv.com/catchup/ ITV were extremely slow about getting around to putting their content online unlike the other channels. The most important thing to note about ITV’s service is that it requires the installation of Microsoft’s Flash like plug-in called SilverLight. The biggest problem with this service is that there is nothing good on ITV, so there is nothing to watch.
	Channel 4 http://www.channel4.com/watch_online/ Channel 4’s is very impressive offering, as it includes many of the American shows it has the rights to in the UK. My personal favorite is My Name is Earl. The range of content is impressive. Viewing the content requires Windows Media player 11 and a large download of DRM codex. This means that you must be viewed on a Genuine version of Windows XP or higher, meaning I can watch anything on my Macbook.
	Channel 5 http://demand.five.tv/Home.aspx Channel 5 seems pretty good as well, it uses Flash and includes American content like my beloved House and Home and away. The only problem that it requires you to create a user.

These are just all the web based video that is just coming out the UK, there are lots of other services from America, many of which can not be accessed from the UK. There is one site, revision3, is a completely internet based Television network. It is mostly geek shows but there is really entertaining stuff on there like Diggnation, The totally rad show and Tekvilla.

With all those options, you now have no reason not to be glued to your Computer’s screen.

Shadowmaic cover

I came across shadowmagic when I was installing Itunes on a new computer a while back and I completely fell in love. It is an free audio book from podiobooks, read by the author John Lenahan available as podcast or download from the offical web site.

Here is a quote from the shadowmagic website

Shadowmagic is a rip roaring fun fantasy adventure novel by John Lenahan very loosely based on Irish mythology where every chapter ends on the edge of a cliff (or at least a high curb.)Join Conor as he grapples with typical teenage problems like, how to deal with a father’s high expectations, how to survive in the world on your own and how to woo a beautiful girl - that wants you dead.Shadowmagic a podcast novel for young adults from 12 to 112.

It is the most compelling and interesting story I have come across in a long time. I enjoy fanasty stories like Lord of the rings but I think that stories like that lose themselves being far to seriously. In this book there are lots of fanasty elements but their are flamed in a modern age teenage boy, who pokes fun of everything. It makes the story very accessibly and easy to pick up. It was easy to put myself in the shoes of the main character. The podcast version is so well read and done by the author, meaning it lovingly done by someone who cares very much about the source matterial. The way is was written was very good, anyone doing a English or writting would be best to read it for ideas on a good way of writting. Give it a go.

The bits I most like about page, which divides all it’s information into bullet fast loading tabs and has a nice fadeout effect on changing of tabs.This site is the most pride of this as it was in plan for nearly a year and it now finally finished. It was also built completely from the ground up by me.

So I have to requests of readers of this post.

1. Feedback
   Any thoughts, ideas and generally how good or bad you thought of the site. Things if you were a customer you would like to see or things you may have seen in other places on the web. Any feedback is good, please feel free to comment on this post or use the site’s contact page.
2. Work
   As I am still building up my portfolio, I am willing to work for extremely cheaply or even free. If you want to start a blog of your own, have a club or band you want a site for, feel free to contact me.

One thing that I am extremely happy about is that now if you do a search on google for Jonathan David Harris, I am the first result.

Here are some screen shots of the site has it was first created. It may change with time.