This seems like an odd marriage to me. If Fiat bought Boeing i'm not sure I would want to fly on their planes any more. I guess Adobe could integrate Flash into premier. They could also combine both plugins but this might anger some users.

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The Uk has started the process that will culminate in a General Election on May 5th. For the next few weeks all we will see on the television is Michael Howard or Tony Blair or some other politician.I will probably vote Liberal this time, if I vote at all. I will vote Liberal for the simple reason they opposed the war in Iraq.

What I would like to see and what I feel would make the UK more democratic is the introduction of voting over the internet. If this can be succesfully introduced and shown to be accurate and not corruptable then I would like to see it extended to all major issues, like the Euro.

Who should I vote for?

Your expected outcome:

Your actual outcome:

Labour -1
	Conservative 1
	Liberal Democrat 21
	UK Independence Party 6
	Green 33

The Green Party, which is of course strong on environmental issues, takes a strong position on welfare issues, but was firmly against the war in Iraq. Other key concerns are cannabis, where the party takes a liberal line, and foxhunting, which unsurprisingly the Greens are firmly against.

Take the test at Who Should You Vote For

Well here it is a UK A-list Blogger called Learn so how do you become an A-List blogger? Simple make people laugh out loud!

If Learn left you confused checkout this blog.

If you want to make simple podcasts or sound scene tours on the move and on the cheap then read on. Buy one of them there portable mini-disc players Amazon are advertising them for £40 and get a mic that can plug into a micro jack socket and you're in business. Once you have recorded your podcast you will need to play it back into the PC and digitize it unless you go for one of the more fancy models that can link to a PC with a cradle.

I created a podcast using this method the other day and was very happy with the results.

This is a feeling I've developed since my introduction to the blogoshpere a few months ago, the US has a host of heavyweight blogging stars that are discussing issues. Some of these issues transcend national boundaries so are of interest to all, however, some are truly domestic issues and of little consequence to non US citizens (i.e. me). Every now and then I go on a crusade looking for UK based uber bloggers but rarely turn up much. Maybe it is just a matter of time or I'm not looking in the right places.

If you know of any UK bloggers who have a razor sharp up to the minute mega blog writing skills then let me know, I'd appreciate it.

I saw a link to this on Mr Dave Winer's blog apparently Simon Nelson the controller of BBC Radio see's merit in the Podcasting content distribution model. I personally hope they put Nick Barraclough's Country Music show that runs on Wednesday evening on a podcast soon.

The BBC Podcasting Press Release

I work in a small dev team of seven people. I manage at any one time two or three developers and what Visual Source Safe (VSS) doesn't offer me is a way to track what these developers have worked on. This is important to me for three reasons firstly as a sanity check when something goes wrong and I quickly need to check which team members worked on it. Secondly as a productivity guage that shows how much code has been added or updated by a developer, this is a blunt instrument but if nothing has changed then this is a sure fire way of discovering your developer is surfing the web all day ;) .Thirdly to facilitate code review for team members.

Essentially what we need is an audit trail that can be reviewed on a developer basis. The reason (I'm guessing) this functionality is not present in VSS is because it is not built on top of a relational database like Sourcegear's product Vault and not designed to support source code control for a team like ours. I am just about to evaluate Vault .

I have already blogged about Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) pricing as have many others and I have read a lot of developer blogs that indicate VSTS is not aimed at teams our size either on price or the way roles are individually defined, although as far as I'm concerned the jury is still out on this. If it does turn out to be true it leaves dev teams like ours between a rock and a hard place.

I read this article with disbelief it discusses how nearly all the VOIP protocols like SIP and MGCP were not designed with NAT routing in mind. So where are the people who designed them so we can take them out and shoot them.

The story doesn't end there because of a lack of native NAT traversal support lots of companies are developing solutions (proprietary solutions) that work over NAT. What a complete mess that is going to be.

So what does this mean for your average company? Well basically if you want to switch to VOIP using a generic protocol like MGCP you can't use a NAT router and your going to need an Internet IP address for each phone! I think that SIP is the most NAT friendly of the protocols and is moving in the right direction.

We are trailing a VOIP service offered by dasBlog/www.voxicon.co.uk">Voxicon it took several weeks to get the phones about five support calls to set them up and we can only use one because we only have one spare internet IP address. We are also trailing SkypeIn / Out, it took two minutes to download and we ordered a couple of USB phones over the web which arrived in two days. So far Skype is off to a better start, it lacks some of the Hunt group and Call Forwarding and Faxing features that the Voxicon solution offers but it is a lot cheaper, about £150 a year per phone cheaper.

Dane R Petersen always has an amusing take on things. Today he has written about his hobby kitesurfing namley adding a 5th line for saftey reasons. He also mentions how many people got killed in Pakistan at a recent kiting festival.

BBC Article on the Pakistani festival.