Time to focus

I did a tally up a week or so ago and realised that I am part way through reading at least eight books.

It hasn't stopped me from buying more books, but it might be worth allowing more time to finish them.  Luckily BBC IPlayer is misbehaving on my PC, so I should be spending less time watching shows on my computer.

Every time the application is restarted the list of videos downloaded or coming soon shows up as being empty.  Deleting the content from the repository on my hard drive and effectively starting over seems to be the only way to get it to function again.

iPlayer not working - Adobe Air update to blame

Since a few of the search results that lead people to view this site appear to be related to my posts about BBC iPlayer troubles, here is another problem that I have encountered.

Before going on holiday outside of the UK, I tried downloading a few programmes on the iPlayer on my Mac laptop.  After a few seconds each download attempt would fail.

Fortunately this was a known issue, and the BBC site has a workaround:

http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/announcements/ipd_air_contentdisappear

Basically it involves uninstalling the currently installed version of Adobe AIR and installing an older version.