Hmm, still not updating much.

Hmm, still not updating much. OK so going to try a new tack here. I'll take a leaf out of Warren Ellis's book/blog and use this to store stuff I come across I might want to remember later - and if it is of no interest to anyone else then tough.

BTW If Ellis's blog entry ever says Do Not Click then you really, really don't want to click on it. My curiosity got the better of me once and I still find the image comes back to me now and again - mostly when I see a Do Not Click link on Warren Ellis's blog. If you are still curious - let's just say it involved poo and leave it at that.

So stuff I came across today:

• Engadget's list of things they've seen at CES. They haven't found us yet though.

• Free MP3s! Only of interest if you are a Slowdive fan though. Kind of ambient, trippy, guitar based, feedbacky stuff. A Slowdive Discography is also available.

• Electronic Scheme. More electronic music downloads. Haven't tried it out yet - but looks like it might be interesting.

• FFMPEG. Open source audio/video codecs. Looks like pretty much the only source of free versions of many decoders (such as MPEG4 based ones). It's LGPL so is only of partial use for us at work - but for any embedded-linux based targets it could be a good solution. The hassle involved in getting licenses for the patented items probably makes it easier to just license a commercial decoder for real distribution but it could be worthwhile as a starter or for demos.

• 24 Day 4 starts tonight in the US with a double episode followed by another double episode tomorrow and then an unbroken run till the end of the season. We'll be following along not far behind as the first episode is on Sky One on 30th Jan. I don't know whether it's a double or not though.

• House of Cuss - the Pipe. Can't remember how I came to this site but it has pointers to interesting MP3's on the web (such as the Slowdive stuff mentioned above).

• The Abduction Of The Art Of Noise. Might be worth picking up at some point.