So the listing showed Friday Night Lights did indeed take House's 8pm slot. I could accomodate that – I just canceled my evening arrangements. But then Global in their infinite wisdom (sic) put Standoff where House was advertised to be.

Stupid stupid. They didn't even advertise Standoff! Standoff is good! Yet how many people missed it because it wasn't advertised?

And Friday Night Lights? Try selecting it from the drop down for Global Shows A-Z. Currently (7:52am, Weds 4th Oct) this goes to http://community.canada.com/globaltv/globalshows/fridaynightlights/index.html which results in a 404 not found.

Global: your website sucks. And as you syndicate your listings, everyone that carries your listings is also affected by your out-of-dateness. Do bare in mind that any site (e.g. yahoo.com) paying for your listings has reasons to sue if you can't keep to your word as to what's on. You are misleading us all.

And your viewers, like these above, can go elsewhere for their entertainment. Like bittorrent, for example, where they can skip your adverts and timeshift as they please.

Finally, Global, the field of competition will open up. Your competition will no longer be just the Canadian providers. As internet TV streaming comes into play we, the public, will be able to get programming from providers around the world. Like the BBC, or Fox TV.

Global takes value from being an intermediary. It is in your interests you remain a value-added one.

Lastly I wonder… what's Google Video and YouTube.com offering in this space? Does Global have a coherent actionable strategy to ensure no loss of viewers to the competition?

Also, it makes me wonder: is this happening because of a low CMOS battery? I think there is an internal one.

There's something really attractive about having a wiki run on your desktop. Wikis provide a conversational context for content way more powerful that the single-category of files and folders view allowed by Windows Explorer. Windows explorer does allow a user to store a HTML file next to folders, but gives no way to generate this. Without lowering the effort required few people bother. Providing the wiki-context would allow for tagging and mapping and (collective) sensemaking / trails that wikis are now embodying, all on the local filesystem.

I first remember running TWiki on Windows back in 2002 when I helped roll out an installation for Arthur Andersen. Yet 4 years later this option is not generally accessible to the public as there is not a sensible windows build. Oh, techies can work it out, after say a couple of hours of effort following the IndigoPerl build instructions, or download the 200mb VMWare build, but long or technical installation instructions and enormous downloads are a real barrier preventing end-users trying out TWiki for the first time.

By opening TWiki to use by end users, would open the door to amplify usage to all the non-technical users, and in the process draw more technical users back into the fold.

To make such a point and click install possible what TWiki needs is a Windows Native build that double-click installs from a .exe and that does not involve an emulation layer such as CygWin or VMWare.

This integration build effort started – see TWiki:Plugins.TWikiInstallerWindowsContrib: we have the components and the approach but not the build. Like too many of TWiki's projects it has failed due to poor coordination.

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