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   The Flight of the Conchords are up to the fourth episode of the HBO series. The first was made available online and there are also some behind the scenes style podcasts available. The song above is very funny and is available on the HBO site. Well worth a look, if that’s what you’re in to.I don’t know if this site will serve the video well or not – if not head over to HBO.HINT 1: right-click and set the quality to low if your connection speed is limited.HINT 2: if the video starts playing immediately, pause it and let the whole thing load before playing – it’s slow, but better watchingHBO have also made the fourth episode available in its entirety to those with the patience to download it. Can only hope the series comes to NZ, it’s refreshingly good. I’ve liked them ever since I heard Business Time…Their official site gives you an idea of their style. You can get tabs or visit them in MySpace.

Not so long ago, if you told your mates you’d been experimenting with light and time exposure photography, it would have been a very short conversation. But call it light graffiti and share some photos and it’s a different tin of biscuits, or kettle of fish, or bucket of whitebait.

Flickr: Photos from lichtfaktor

These guys have practiced a bit, and it shows. Some impressive results.

After many downloads and failed attempts at getting this software to run, I’ve finally got some success with the latest release.

I first signed up for Joost ages ago, and have downloaded perhaps six revisions of the software – all without success, until now.

The quality isn’t stunning but it’s quite acceptable, and the range of channels is great. Fifth Gear, Reuters, music channels, cartoons, and plenty of others. Haven’t watched them all, just a few at the moment. It’s better than stuffing around with an aerial, anyway.

Joost entry at Wikipedia shows some of the background – but basically it’s TV over IP via P2P with widgets for chat, newstickers, blog posts and more (although it supports wordpress.com, it wouldn’t allow me to connect to this site – but it did promise more development in that area soon.) It’s developed by the people who created Skype and Kazaa.

Joost is available for XP, Vista and OS X Intel. I’m not sure if it will be better than Freeview (no rugby world cup on Joost I don’t think) but it’s interesting nonetheless.