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Listed below are comments made by mbrodbin between Tuesday, 31st March 2009 and Thursday, 9th July 2009.

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Glow Technical Overview 8:16pm on 09 Jul 2009 Nice post - thanks for sharing the history & thinking behind Glow. Look forward to v2.0!
Bletchley Park - the Fry effect 12:28pm on 12 May 2009 Living in Milton Keynes for the past few years I - at long last! - visited Bletchley Park a couple of weeks ago and was really impressed, in so many ways.

The site is much much bigger than I had realised, the pre-war history is amazing, the level of detail and knowledge the volunteer guides have is fantastic, and (IMHO) isn't too pricey to get in AND then surprised when told the ticket can be used again & again all year long.

The site is clearly in need to repairs though - some of those wooden huts look like they'll struggle to keep water out.

Anyway, a wonderful place & an amazing history. If you get the chance to go - do!

PS Hurray for Stephen Fry!
Why no Wire? 11:15pm on 31 Mar 2009 Disapointing that it isn't available on the iplayer, but I think people can (or perhaps should!) understand that you can't *force* someone to sell something they own. If HBO wasn't willing to sell the rights to have the series on the iplayer, then you either take it or leave it.

BUT I would suggest that there should be somewhere (e.g. the relevant bbc.co.uk/programmes pages) that will explain *why* a programme isn't available ("sorry, the BBC doesn't own the online rights to this programme, so we can't offer it on iplayer" or "sorry, the rights owner of this programme has placed restrictions that mean we can only offer this on the PC iplayer" etc), rather than simply saying it isn't available (which leads me to wonder "has it not loaded into the iplayer yet, should I try again later, or should I try a pc rather than my iphone etc etc).

That way beeb folks don't get lots of questions coming in, visitors can see the situation for themselves.

Just a thought - just a thought...

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