YES, we DO have NFL coverage this season, from Channel 4! JOY!

Thanks to @NatCoombs and The 'book That Shall Not Be Named.

...well, it's the first of me hearing of it. Excuuuuuuse me while I celebrate this excellent news.

I came home to some very good news. The "restrictive issue" mentioned in my monthly Mission 101 report was just resolved.

Let's go to work.

So this is me, putting this week behind me...

Movie Review: Scott Pilgrim vs The World The story...

( Guess you could call this spoiler territory... )

Highlight of The Evening... Smallville: "Absolute Justice" Part 2. One of the problems with digital TV is that sometimes, you can't see the wood for the trees - there is just too much stuff on TV! You spend so much time looking for something to watch that you end up getting "listings fatigue", and completely miss stuff you'd have stayed in for ( Read more... )

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Mission 101 Update... Okay, that's official:90 - Go to at least five concerts
will be brought right up to speed on August 1st, courtesy of the Perth Concert Hall, and "The Dog Hisself" Seasick Steve. Travel, accommodation, ticket - all dealt with last night. Yay!

Also, there's already the possibility of a THIRD concert, now that Rush are to release ( Read more... )

My Geocities site, the first ever web-site I created, appears to have been saved by the excellent people at REOCITIES! I still have to check that everything is there, especially all the "Phantasia" material, which will become particularly relevant when WORLDS COLLIDE begins - ooops...

So, here it is...Project development news coming later - got ( Read more... )

Mmmmm - an Amazon delivery! Haven't had one of those for a while, and this isn't an impulse buy of notebooks - today, we're talking a brace of new-release CDs; the latest Seasick Steve - "Man From Another Time", and a definite "major event" in the form of "Sonic Boom", the latest studio album by KISS!I heard a few weeks ago that the band were soon ( Read more... )

Lunchtime was fun; a perfect, end-of-summer afternoon, with the sun in a nearly-clear, blue sky, the waves lapping on the shore - various air forces tearing through the heavens (in particular our own, past and present, ably represented by The Red Arrows and Vulcan XH558)...

Lewis Hamilton's on pole for Imola, and Jensen Button has his best grid ( Read more... )

At The Movies: District 9. It could be so easy to cry out "Alien Nation!", and dismiss this as a knock-off - but that would be so damn lazy, and would do this movie a dire injustice. Rather than compare this with an entirely different movie from a different era, or go fishing for "references", like some reviewers, the viewer is better served by ( Read more... )