I've just finished watching both Friday night's Battlestar Galactica on Sci Fi — the mid-season finale "Revelations", the last episode until the start of 2009 — and Saturday night's Doctor Who on BBC One — "Midnight", another mid-season episode, but with more to come from next week onwards. The current productions of Doctor Who suffer […]
I've decided to take a leaf out of Jemima 's book, and rip and sell all my music CDs . Why? Well, I have the following: a shitload of CDs a shitload of hard disk space a desire not to have my lounge cluttered with CDs any more, and an impetus to make a wee […]
After seeing Iron Man last night, Robert Downey Jr. has firmly cemented himself into the canon of my "mostest awesome favourite actor types". I've always liked Downey Jr. — highlights for me were his roles in Air America , Chaplin , and most recently, A Scanner Darkly , Good Night, and Good Luck and Kiss […]
Best Fight Music, Ever .
I was wondering why my iTunes Music folder was taking up so much room on my hard disk, and in checking I realised: it's because I subscribe to the 720p HD Trailer Podcast and I'd forgotten to expire out watched 'episodes'. It's a neat way to catch up with new HD trailers without having to […]
... designed the titles for Star Wars, they'd look something like this. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z25t-PQDn5A]
YouTube is currently off the air. Several people are citing a blog post describing the issue as youtube.com being the victim of DNS poisoning . However, this simply ain't the case. YouTube hasn't had their DNS hijacked; Yelvington describes a wildcard match in the whois tool which let's you see not only youtube.com but other […]
One of the best bits of television ever. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh0oSrjLlwY]
My blog software, WordPress , has been nagging me to upgrade it for a few days now. It's normally an easy process: go to the website, download the tar archive, untar into a temporary directory, then cp -a the files into my blog's Apache virtual host directory. However, Aq noticed a slightly easier way: use […]