Internet TV: The future today

TV & Movies
Anyone who hasn't heard of Hulu should probably be checked for signs of brain damage, obviously caused by the weight of the rock they were living under for the last year or more. Basically, it gives you access to American TV over the Internet without needing to install anything except Flash.

But the problem is that it's only available to if you live in the United States. Or is it...

Proxy servers aren't a new thing, but they're typically a mess to find and configure, and often they've been taken offline before you find them. That's where Hotspot Shield comes in quite handy. And here's a little YouTube video to back me up.


Live Sport
The other thing I like to do is watch live sport. The easiest way I've found is to install SopCast which is a P2P video streaming application. This means that when I want to watch Chelsea smash every other Premier League or Champions League team about, I can.

All I have to do is find a SopCast link for the content, in much the same way that you would look for a BitTorrent link.

The sites I use for football are:

• http://livetv.ru/en
• http://www.myp2p.eu

Tangible Enthusiasm

On a recent wine tasting trip out to Coonawarra (think Australian Sideways), I ended up at Rymills - a nice modern building with a viewing deck over part of their vineyard.

After tasting some typically great Cab Sauv and a surprisingly coiffable Sauv Blanc, I decided on the ideal mixed case. The guy who was manning the cellar door sales was this great old guy, full off insight and armed with more than a little cynicism.

So after insisting he'd walk the case out to the car for us, he thanked us for visiting and for our "Tangible Enthusiasm", ie. actually purchasing something and not just drinking a load of free samples.

Brilliant.