War and Peace

iTunes just threw up one of my favourite songs of all time, by one of the most under-rated 80s bands: Cutting Crew's acoustic story of Napoleon's epic retreat from Moscow, Brag.

Nice to hear ( it again. )

Talkin' Al Kida Blues

Can I just point you all at this track from Dan Bern: Talkin' Al Kida Blues

Sorry folks, the only stream of the track I could find was Windows media player only. However VLC should cope on most platforms...

Let's just lob a web server in it...

If you're in the UK, and you're using the rather useful DigiGuide TV guide application, then you might not have noticed that they've sneaked in a little web server - so you can install your copy on a local server, and just browse from any machine, anywhere (if you're brave enough to open up a non-standard hole in your firewall).

Useful. Next - actually getting it to control the PVR.

Perhaps I need to get a Media Centre PC and run the Remote Record tool...

It turns out that there's a US version of DigiGuide, which may well have the same feature...