Re: [backstage] AGH! Cruddy BBC website

2006-11-14 Thread Nic James Ferrier
Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One of the things I tried to do that I was suprised didn't work [and is an issue for backstage I suspect] is the normal BBC 2 tv schedule. It only has links for one week. I didn't try url hacking maybe that would have worked I don't know. I was just

Re: [backstage] AGH! Cruddy BBC website

2006-11-14 Thread Nic James Ferrier
Lee Goddard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nic James Ferrier The reason I say it's an issue for backstage is that it's BBC published data that someone could be using via screen scraping. I know it's available in other forms but

Re: [backstage] AGH! Cruddy BBC website

2006-11-14 Thread Martin Belam
One of the things I tried to do that I was suprised didn't work [and is an issue for backstage I suspect] is the normal BBC 2 tv schedule. It only has links for one week. I didn't try url hacking maybe that would have worked I don't know. I was just suprised that the standard listing showed only

[backstage] AGH! Cruddy BBC website

2006-11-13 Thread Nic James Ferrier
I am in a bad mood because all the tech I've tried over the last few days has broken. Even my aga is broken and that is very low tech. [sometimes I think there must be days when a low level magnetic field settles over my house and causes mysterious things to go wrong] So I settle down to watch

Re: [backstage] AGH! Cruddy BBC website

2006-11-13 Thread Matthew Somerville
Nic James Ferrier wrote: When is university challenge on then? I go look at the BBC site. Type univeristy challenge into search... a whole load of press releases. No programme page though. It sounds like the search should have an extra bit, listings if the search term matches a programme

Re: [backstage] AGH! Cruddy BBC website

2006-11-13 Thread Nic James Ferrier
Matthew Somerville [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: term matches a programme name, sounds sensible. There's a nice Show me times for a programme box on http://www.bbc.co.uk/whatson/ (which then tells you it's not on this week at all, but simply normal time next week), but not much use if you

Re: [backstage] AGH! Cruddy BBC website

2006-11-13 Thread Tom Loosemore
Nic, you have my utmost sympathy... On 13/11/06, Nic James Ferrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in a bad mood because all the tech I've tried over the last few days has broken. Even my aga is broken and that is very low tech. [sometimes I think there must be days when a low level magnetic