It was a fun day, though I have to say it was a big relief when all the indoors filming was over and the "that was great but can we do it one more time?" requests stopped. At least with the launch and chase I was in control rather than the TV director :)
The girl was a complete natural in front of the camera; the lad's appearances were obviously carefully edited :p. I did laugh a lot at the bit where he suggested that my coding technique was to simply bash the keyboard randomly - my secret is out!
Dave
> Just returned to this "sunny" land last night and wathed
> the show. You look great on TV and the kids were cute as
> heck. I'm glad they understand you - it's very high tech
> for me...but very cool indeed!!
>
> > As some of you know, this high-altitude weather ballooning
> > has, er, ballooned into taking up quite a large part of my
> > life, to the point at which it's become a bit more than
> > just a hobby. Late last year I did a launch for BBC TV as
> > part of programme to encourage kids to learn computer
> > programming, and earlier this week that show went out on
> > BBC2 at some ridiculous time in the morning. Just in case
> > anyone missed it, you can see the item (nearly 9 minutes
> > long, so I'm well on my way to achieving my 15 minutes of
> > fame), at
> > href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01661f7">this
> > link.
> >
> > The BBC blocks views from outside the UK, so to avoid a
> > trip to these sunny isles you can simply download the clip
> > from
> > href="http://www.daveakerman.com/dl/Cracking%20The%20Code%20-%20Weather%20Balloon.wmv">my
> > server
> >
> > Dave
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