Eurosport player – on the Mac natively!
Posted by Mark on July 1, 2010 under software | 
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Ace. The new Eurosport player works in Safari, natively. You just need Microsoft Silverlight installed.
Greg Lemond at Play the Game 2009
Posted by Mark on June 26, 2009 under doping | Be the First to Comment
Lots of chatter about Greg’s presentation on the forums, I’ve finally got around to viewing this myself.
It’s harsh viewing, and Greg sometimes comes across as quite dishevelled – I guess that’s because things are tough for him right now.
My feeling though, is that this is a guy with a passion, who is tired of seeing his passion ruined by lies. I hope he finds peace, and that this fight he’s embroiled in doesn’t cause him to tip over the edge.
I totally believe in him.
Eurosport player on the Mac
Posted by Mark on May 3, 2009 under sport | 6 Comments to Read
If you’re not a Sky subscriber sometimes it can be painful getting to see some cycle sport on TV. Eurosport have an online, chargeable, application called Eurosport Player, but it’s only supported on Windows. Not a lot of use if you’re a Mac user like me.
But, I’ve just discovered that if you have Flip4Mac installled, Quicktime on the Mac will happily stream Eurosport Player feeds. So subscribe to the player, use Firefox on the Mac to log into the site, set Flip4Mac to ‘Launch Quicktime Player’ in the system prefs, and you have Eurosport on your computer whenever you like.
Nice.
Is Landis guilty?
Posted by Mark on June 28, 2008 under sport | Be the First to Comment
So Floyd Landis gets to hear on Monday if his appeal has been successful. I’ve not read “Positively False: The real story of how I won the Tour de France”, Landis’ own story of the events, but somehow I just can’t seem to believe him anyway.
Initially, when it was first revealed he’d used testosterone the day before his mega stage I was sceptical. One could suggest there were lab errors, or even tampering, with the sample – there were quite a few cockups revealed to suggest this. But at the same time, there was rather a lot of evidence pointing towards his guilt, and I’ve got to admit, in my eyes at least, the case for having used ‘something’ to pep him up is considerably stronger than one against.
I bet he is guilty 
2008 Tour de France prediction
Posted by Mark on June 25, 2008 under sport | Be the First to Comment
As much as I’m not a fan of Cadel Evans (when does he ever do anything ‘exciting’, really? He’s a whiny wheel sucker, and that makes for boring viewing) my money is on him for the win this year. He just looks the strongest, and will probably follow the right wheels, then cane his competitors in the time trial. *snore*