I'm not the only one who considers Real Player to be evil, but given stuff like the Finn Brothers webcasts one almost has to have it installed these days.

I'm starting to have a look at some of the alternatives like Freecorder, Total Recorder, and other ways to record Real streams. The intent is to gain Tivo like features, so I can watch or listen to stuff at a convenient time or even convert the format into something playable on my phone for the daily commute.

Little known fact - there's a command line option for the Nokia Multimedia Convertor, so you can batch or schedule the conversion process.

We hit our July target of 5000 readers for Fun-1 (just). Ewan's announced the August target of 6500, which to be honest we were both rather pessimistic about, what with 3 weeks between races and a test ban. Fortunately the Da Matta sacking and the Button soap opera have sent scads of new readers our way.

September's target? 10K? Who knows!