I've just visited the New City Architecture exhibition, in the City of London (in the middle of this square in Broadgate, which has somehow metamorphosed into a public area, complete with a subterranean exhibition space.
When Matt Biddulph (R&Mi T&D Architecture Team Gruppenfuhrer) wrote about Moyles-proof code he was talking about processing incoming SMS. The core plumbing of that system was a way of turning an external (to the BBC) store of messages provided by a third-party into an internal feed of messages that applications could be built on top of. That's how you're able to build the cool stuff: by having solid, scalable, adaptable plumbing.
Some of my colleagues here in BBC Radio & Music Interactive are looking at our (Oh, I like saying that) Radio Player -- the BBC Radio internet audio-on-demand controller -- and are looking for feedback. There's a survey up at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/survey.shtml, it shouldn't take more than about five minutes and I can guarantee that the Radio Player folks will be very interested to hear what you've got to say (and that they'll be make-it-better interested, and not just powerpoint-charts interested).
Okay, I know I'm biased when it comes to the BBC. Caveats aside, I've just finished watching a time-shifted (twice! by me and my employer) BBC Four documentary about Richard Thompson, broadcast last Monday on BBC Two.
The Truck Festival is a small (3,000 people) festival which happens in Steventon, Oxfordshire, and has done for the last seven years. I haven't for a long time (1999 or 2000), but it has a little truck-shaped space in my head -- I've always meant to go -- and it was good to make it back this year, even if it was only for one day.