Monday 13 October 2014

Dumbed Down Life 132

Formula One, Road Rage and TV stuff!

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Formula One Safety

Formula One Shuffle

Song
Eddie Bingo - Everything I Touch Is Gold
https://www.jamendo.com

Road Rage

Gotham

Star Wars Rebels

Monday 29 September 2014

Dumbed Down Life 131

Another random mix of topics, Lance preparing for a weekend with the Cubs and Darren climbing up the wall!

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Lance gets a costume for a weekend away with the Cubs

Amazon Fire TV

3D printed telescope

Song
The Easton Ellises - Sex, Drugs, Rock-N-Roll
theeastonellises.com

Not counting holiday

Rock Climbing

Thursday 18 September 2014

Dumbed Down Life 130

Nothing to talk about this week so the show ends up at just over an hour long!

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A quick round up on Smart Watches and Rosetta

Microsoft buy Minecraft

Scottish Independence

The New Doctor

Formula E

Song
Josh Woodward - California Lullaby
www.joshwoodward.com/

Friday 12 September 2014

Dumbed Down Life 129

Another tech' show talking about phones and watches, with an answer to the question posed last week.

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Phones And Smart Watches
With Apple having released the Apple Watch every nerd on the planet has an opinion on wearable tech' and we're no different.

Song
Michael McEachern - One Way Heartbeats
www.michaelmceachern.com/

Question From Last Week
So how much air does an astronaut breath while on the ISS?

Friday 5 September 2014

Dumbed Down Life 128

Watch this space! We talk about Darren's ongoing grapples with wearable technology and Lance answers some questions from the last show about life in space.

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Smart watch update
Darren has issues with his Kreyos but still has the desire for wearable tech.
www.youtube.com/embed/ttGns0zZKs4

Rosetta in for closer orbit
www.bbc.co.uk/news

Song
Sam Brown - Who Cares
www.youtube.com/user/SamBrownQC

Formula E
www.fiaformulae.com/
www.youtube.com

Saturday 9 August 2014

Dumbed Down Live 127

More spacey stuff and watch talk.

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Next rover to make oxygen
www.bbc.co.uk/news

Rosetta attempts orbit
www.bbc.co.uk/news

Song
Anne Davis - Awakening
www.annedavismusic.com

Where’s My Watch?
https://www.kreyos.com/

Thursday 7 August 2014

Technical Hickup With RSS Feed

My apologies folks! A small mistake in the coding of the blog post for DDL126 made the RSS feed not work correctly.

You should now be able to tell your podcast player to "re-download" the last episode and it should all work.

The Technical Bit

The host we use for our mp3 files uses both http and https. I had copied the address for the https file. While your web browser will happily connect via https and do all the secure certificate negotiation associated with the secure protocol, most RSS podcast software will not perform the secure handshake and instead reads the link as broken.

Sunday 3 August 2014

Dumbed Down Life 126

Dusting off the microphones for the first time in almost exactly one year!

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In this show we talk about:
Where have we been?
Opportunity breaks distance record
http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/july/nasa-s-long-lived-mars-opportunity-rover-sets-off-world-driving-record/index.html#.U9jT5_ldV8G

Driverless cars in th UK
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28551069


Girl with a Trademarked name
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-28559872

Music from:
Tamara Loral - Sweet
http://www.tamaralaurel.com/