Update

Firstly, for those of you wondering (all one of you) why we've been so silent over the last few weeks it is because of high work loads followed by a week of bed-ridden sickness. Both of us.

We've been attempting to finish the final few episodes for our television series Byte Me. Byte Me is all about computers and the people that use them. We've covered a broad variety of topics including: blogging; encryption; how to choose a good password; OpenSource WA; an interview with Cray Inc's CTO, Steve Scott; and the IBM computer museum. It's something we've been working on for a little over a year now and we're bloody proud of it. It's not just aimed at geeks, either. We've managed to create a programme that anyone with even the barest fascination with computers or access to the internet will find interesting.

The original plan was to show it on Access 31. We submitted it to them months ago and we've been waiting, and waiting, and waiting for a response. Today we got one. They love it, but can't show it until the first week of July.

Now, let me point out (for the non-locals and those that have been living under a Lesmurdie rock for the last 10 years) that Access31 is a community television station. Its sole purpose is to broadcast community-based television shows - ie local content. And yet, instead of Perth-based shows we get hours of Deutsch-Welles (German tv), Voice of America, pre-WW2 films and old BBC serials (Coronation Street). You'd think that they'd be scrambling to grab and promote a Perth show, but there's no room because the schedule is too full of overseas crap that can't get a run on a commercial station. And by the way, before you suggest their schedules are made up months in advance, they're not. It's a political decision. There's no advertising money in new, unproven Perth-based community shows. Even great ones. If we were a paying sponsored programme they would have found a slot for us months ago. We're appealing the decision, so stay-tuned.

On another matter, our post Bad Headline Day made it into rec.humor.funny One Liner digest. Woohoo!