GAH! WHY DO THEY HAVE TO KEEP MESSING WITH THE START TIME OF DOCTOR WHO ( Read more... )

So, I saw Howl's Moving Castle yesterday. Speaking as someone who first read the book many, many years ago and has read it many times since, I would have to say that this was probably the worst mutilation of a book on its way to the screen that I've ever seen. The result was a plotless mess - good looking, to be sure, but nonetheless a plotless ( Read more... )

Well, this has been an Interesting week. As regards interesting item one, I will say no more than to quote Morpheus: "Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony." As regards interesting item two, I will say more tomorrow. (See, I can make vague and mysterious posts too ( Read more... )

Random rant of the day: Supermarket checkouts

1. Why is it that whichever queue I choose, it's always the wrong one. I get the person with a duff credit card, or whose items won't scan, or who stops for a nice chat with the cashier, or who didn't buy enough to use a whole Retward voucher and disappears back into the store for a couple of minutes to ( Read more... )

Today I've been mostly watching a new sci-fi show - new to me at least. I watched the first three or four episodes last night and was sufficiently hooked to spend today watching through the remaining eleven. Right now, I'm just managing to restrain myself from hunting down the Fox execs who cancelled Firefly and cutting their hearts out with a ( Read more... )

As many of you have probably already read on hermorrine's journal, I was over in Chicago again last weekend. ( Read more... )

BBC: Microsoft creator to be knightedI heard rumors about this yesterday, but now it's been confirmed. Apparently Gordon Brown has realised that I didn't dislike him enough for him to take over from Tony later in the week. This little gem is most certainly a good start. Honestly, what has Bill Gates done for 'enterprise in the UK' - other than ( Read more... )

Short-haul flights are so much fun. Not. As mentioned earlier, my flight out was delayed a little. The one back was worse - pretty much as soon as I got to the gate, they flashed up "delayed 45 minutes...". Three quarters of an hour after the scheduled departure time, we were still sitting in the departure lounge, and the message said the same (and ( Read more... )

...except that in parts of The Matrix Revolutions, that end just couldn't come soon enough.
( Here be Spoilers )

Dear Mr. Sainsbury ( Read more... )