Owain R Hunt

It’s not a right if you’re stupid.

The BBC and Sky today announced a landmark partnership deal that will bring the BBC’s popular video-on-demand service BBC iPlayer to up to five million Sky homes in 2012.

Just as long as the BBC aren’t paying Sky for the privilege.

I have just one problem with Menlo, and that is its default line-height. Too cramped for my tastes. As there’s no way to change the line-height used in Xcode, I’ve just switched to a variant called Meslo - it’s essentially identical to Menlo, but with three variants of line-height.

EDIT: It also includes a tweak to fix a cannot-unsee issue with Menlo’s asterisks. Sample image.

There are twenty ‘Opposition Days’ per session of Parliament, and Labour plan to use one of them to call on the government to break a contract Labour themselves negotiated.

Saved for future reference.

Since they’re so persnickety about licensing agreements, let’s amend all of our terms of use to require all movie moguls to use a special “Hollywood Edition” of our products.

All joking aside, this serves to illustrate just how ridiculous certain aspects of ‘typical Hollywood’ would appear to be in any other arena.

“How dare you summarily change what I am entitled to?” — Unions, three months ago

“I demand you summarily change what this man is entitled to!” — Unions, today

“Bonuses should be in shares and reward good performance.” — Everyone, two years ago

“This bonus, paid entirely in shares and rewarding turning a £1.6bn loss in this quarter two years ago into a £2bn profit last quarter, is utterly reprehensible.” — Nutters, today

The anti-monarchy group Republic is warning schools they may break the law if they take part in a cooking contest to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

Of all the things to complain about, apparently kids can only take part if they’re simultaneously taught about republics.

This is the sole reason piracy is up and profits are down: because doing it right totally sucks.