Nigel Megitt

Thinking of you, hope you’re better soon.

During the dark days of Covid, I was involved in launching some of the NHS services like questionnaires.

I was berated by some *very* smart people who insisted that it could all be built in about five minutes.

All the quickly launched services had horrific flaws.

👀 shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/08...

What’s the Great Aunt got everyone up to now?

Notifications on Bluesky has made it work properly at last.

… said your spokesperson

Timothy! (Not an armadillo) watches Peggy, Titty and Roger (?) prospecting for gold in Pigeon Post. Can’t recall the name of their company, maybe included “Swallows and Amazons”?

From the standards world, to video player implementers, I have some questions:

How do you sync subtitles and captions with media on the web? currentTime? TextTrackCue? Something else? What is your target accuracy? How reliably do you meet it? How do you test?

Not public, no, but has been licensed to academic partners.

Yep, diarisation is ripe for improvement and would make a big difference.

You’re welcome. Also general good wishes in your direction!

Interested to know more about why you’re asking.

It has mark-up, yes via ttm:agent www.w3.org/TR/ttml2/#me... which can be applied to any content element. It’s a strong part of the DAPT profile data model which is a good starting place for this www.w3.org/TR/dapt/

It’s time we all started thinking of BBC’s Engineering as one of the best in the world That’s a bold statement I know, but let me explain exactly why I believe this is true, and why I’m so passionate about it. The BBC which is…

medium.com/bbc-product-... BBC Product & Technology post on medium from 2022, all still true.

Drop Image Profile from v1.3 - consult and consider · Issue #600 · w3c/imsc As proposed in #551 (comment) and discussed in w3c/ttwg#301 (minutes), we should consider, alongside the community of users, dropping the Image Profile from v1.3, in part to resolve the difficultie...

Please provide feedback on the IMSC issue tracker or on this thread. In particular, let us know if you are an active user of the Image Profile.

github.com/w3c/imsc/iss...

Users of the IMSC subtitling/captioning specification please read on 👇

W3C is working on a new edition of the IMSC subtitling/captioning specification and is seeking input on whether to discontinue maintenance on the Image Profile:

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W3C invites implementations of Dubbing and Audio description Profiles of TTML2 This specification defines DAPT, a TTML-based file format for the exchange of timed text content in dubbing and audio description workflows.

I’m really pleased that W3C just published the Candidate Recommendation for DAPT: www.w3.org/news/2025/w3...

Next we will complete the test suite and welcome all implementations. We need at least 2 per feature to get to Recommendation.

Let me know if you’ve made one!

Sun Yat Sen is a name that comes to mind, but I don’t know if that’s the right name or who such a person was. Or at least, I can’t remember…

Always Missee Lee for me. Turning all the stereotypes upside down and, it turns out, strongly influencing at least one of my key life decisions.

Is it though? Somehow I feel there are overlaps…

He also played Boris Johnson in panto last winter.

I actually know the actor who played the Tango man. As it happens.

How BBC Wales returned live to 1985 - TVBEurope TVBEurope talks to the team who brought a piece of broadcasting history back to life on BBC Wales last night

Wow, @tvbeurope.bsky.social you didn’t hang around! www.tvbeurope.com/live-product...

Such a great video, it’s almost like it was made by professionals 😉! Love hearing you in top voiceover mode Matt.

BBC Wales COW Revival On Thursday 13th February BBC One Wales brought back to life a famous blue and gold globe to celebrate its 40th birthday

The story of how Mark and Dave brought a COW back to BBC Wales.

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Titty and Roger are about to find Swallowdale but have to get back because Mother is visiting (I think!). Watch out for the pike rock, it’s vicious!

For more than ten years I’ve kept loose batteries in a metal tin, and yesterday evening I opened it and two of them were red hot, and I thought oh dear, that’s not good, and I looked up whether you should keep batteries in a metal tin, and let’s say I’m glad that I’m not long dead in a house fire.

Those trees are the wrong way across

It’s a tricky bridge to get under. A lot of the time the water is too high. I’ve managed to row under a few times though.

Well I’m jiggered! Nancy is heading to the North Pole with one of Cook’s fruitcakes. Dot got there first, and is with Dick. She’ll soon get a good fire going with the packing crate that contains feast supplies.
3 million cheers for Winter Holiday!!!

Nancy, whose mumps make her look like a melon, under a plague flag at Beckfoot, is signalling by semaphore to Peggy, relaying the message to be scribed by Dot in Winter Holiday.

Without looking it up, I’m struggling on the details. Some buoy that’s named after its sound, clanging?, the Goblin, and it means next stop is Flushing!

Can’t remember Roger’s tune, was it Farewell and Adieu to you fair Spanish ladies!?