Here’s a video from the BBC’s build up for the Cup which captures the Crazy Gang spirit.
It didn’t seem long after this high that things went awry, Hillsborough meant all-seater stadiums and the Dons moved from their home of Plough Lane to sharing with Crystal Palace. I never enjoyed Selhurst Park and my defining memory is of tears, the day we were relegated from the Premiership.
After having been ‘outed’ as a blogger yesterday I have finally pulled finger and put syntho into production. Which means it is considerably nippier today after I have set up fastcgi. (It’s been a while since I’ve had to mess with Apache configs okay)
I would just like to point out that Wimbledon FC doesn’t really exist having been purchased and shipped up to Milton Keynes under the monikor of MK Dons aka Franchise FC. Wimbledon fans responded by setting up a completely new club in 2002AFC Wimbledon. AFC would normally expand to Association Football Club but in Wimbledon’s case, it means ‘A Fans Club’.
Here’s a quote from the book by Laurie Sanchez, scorer of the winning goal in the 1988 FA Cup Final on the state of affairs.
What saddens me is the situation now. My history has been extinguished with the demise of Wimbledon FC. With the attempt to move to Milton Keynes, how can they claim a creditable line to Wimbledon? I have a great respect for what AFC Wimbledon have done – and the fans have the same great memories as I do – but AFC Wimbledon have never won the FA Cup. The 1988 Cup final has been consigned to history – it belongs to neither club. It belongs solely to the players who played in it and the fans who watched it.
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As the astute will have noticed syntho is Typo based, which use Rails as it’s foundation. Rails is a Ruby web application framework that is getting considerable coverage in the tech sphere.
Frankly I would have preferred to use a Python blog tool as Python is my dynamic language of choice. But after a quick scope, including trying a couple, I decided to give Typo a whirl. And it does what I need and to boot seems to be gaining a decent amount of traction of it’s own.
In the games I watched on the Topfield I noticed a NZ flag behind the goals. I assume this is related in some way to their signing of Kiwi Shane Smeltz.
I can remember at Plough lane you used to see a Japanese flag about, Tokyo Wombles?
So what is interesting about the Topfield (TP) apart from the basic PVR functionality, which cannot be under estimated if you haven’t tried using one for a week.
Connectivity: Using the USB 2 interface you can download recorded content from the TF onto a computer. Likewise you can upload files from a computer to the TF. There are a couple of Mac pieces of software that provide the ‘altair’ like file transfer functionality.
I tried out MPEG Streamclip and MacTF and both could not see the file names of recorded material. Uploaded content appeared fine. It was only after I renamed recorded material to very short filenames that I could see them and download them.
Experiments in downloading content worked fine. Radio content and TV was transfered and converted without a hitch.
Straight up and down MPEG-1 transcoded to MPEG-2 transport stream worked well and therefore let me view the latest win of mighty AFC Wimbledon, courtesy of Woking Jon and his ongoing amcam coverage of their matches in Ryman’s Division 1.
I also tried to upload content from a DVD, one I had created, but apart from the transcoding and uploading process taking an eon I could not succeed in getting audio, vision was fine. MPEG Streamclip has transcoding capabilitiies and I also used ffmpegX.
I was tempted to see if the Speccy emulator, written for the TF4000, would work on the 5000 but as it doesn’t support sound and I couldn’t see a kosher copy of Atik Atac to test it with my interest waned.
I hope to experiment more with the TAPs available for the TF5000 when we acquire a permanent one.
