Top Ten Things To Watch For on Sky’s Blake’s 7 Revivial

Hmm, Blake’s 7 is coming back to Sky, is it? Right then, time for a Top Ten things I’m going to be watching out for in the new series…

1. Avon, strapped into some diabolical torture device, keeping him on the edge of death (yet in horrible pain) for the 25 years since the shoot-out where […]

Monty Python and the Battlestar Galactica…

Tigh: So if Boomer weighs more than a goose - that means -
A crewman: She sinks?
Tigh: And -
Another crewman: She’s she’s….she’s made of metal?
Tigh: Yes!
All crewmen: She’s a Cylon! She’s a Cylon! Burn Her! Burn Her!

Pictures from San Jose Are Up

Yes, finally I’ve managed to pull the pictures of the MMC card that was hiding in the offline 6600 that I was using in San Jose and San Diego. Of course I never got around to paying the crazy roaming GPRS charges while I was over there, and I couldn’t be bothered jumping through hoops […]

“I Met Ewan” says Mike Rohde

One of the people I met up with at the PalmSource DevCon (and there were a lot of people to meet) was Mike Rohde. Mike’s a bit of a mover in Palm circles, being a member of the Palm User Council and joining in with the PUG’s. Anyway, his blog post for day two covers […]

Harry Potter 6 As An EBook

Oh dear. Grok this and giggle. No Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Ebook? Think again. The book is due out on July 16th. Given my experience with the release of Harry Potter 5, the first chapter was avaialble in text format in all the usual places on the web within an hour or […]

Creating The Future, Today

The University of Exeter has an Annual Festival of Science. This year, they decided to focus on “The Responsibility of Being a Scientist.” Which is fair enough. hey also had a poll running to find teh country’s favourite TV Scientist. The winnners?
Dr Bunson Honeydew and his assistant, Beaker.
(From The BBC).

America’s Banned Books - Farenheit 451 In Effect

Thanks to Cory at Boing Boing, I’ve stumbled over the American Library Associations top banned books for 2003. Nothing like stoppping subversive ideas and “Terrorists Under The Bed.” Here’s some of the evil books.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
All seven Harry Potter books (J K Rowling)
The Catcher In […]

Zone 1 Race Report - Part 3, Oxford Circus to Kings Cross

…when we left Tom and Ewan, they were on a Central Line Train, heading out to West London and an encounter with a lift…

All this running around is starting to get to my thirst, and as I’ve already finished 2 litres of water (but still, thankfully, not needing the toilet - I guess all the […]

The Final Countdown

From Vikki…
I’m just back from seeing the consultant, and I’ve got the date for my caesarean. Sorry Emma, it’s July 12th! Hope you don’t mind sharing your birthday. That’s three weeks today. Scary!
Everything’s fine with the baby and me. I need to see the anaesthetist next week because I’m allergic to latex so they […]

The (Harry) Houdini Museum

This BBC Article (and the same news in Metro) was something I read when I couldn’t post to this blog last month. What really got me was this quote from the Curator.
BBC: By telling people how this trick works, we’re giving people a deeper meaning of Houdini.
Metro: People appreciate magic more when they know how […]

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