I'm running a bit behind on my Doctor Who watching, but I've watched the first five episodes. Changing the Doctor is a scary and worrying time for the viewer. What if the new one is rubbish? What if I don't like him? Fortunately in Matt Smith I think that they've hit the jackpot. Right from the off he's really captured the Doctor, while still ( Read more... )

Today is my Livejournal's 6th Birthday. It's certainly not used as much as it used to be (only a few posts so far this year), partly because of newer, shinier sites like Facebook and Twitter but also because most people that I used to follow have stopped using it. Anyway, enough of that, here's something more interesting ( Read more... )

Richard Dawkins is supposed to be giving a speech at the University of Oklahoma. A legislator has tried to stop him by banning him from the whole state!

Read the text of the proposal here.

Nice to know that free speech is alive and well in America...

I don't think Amazon have quite got the point of Valentine's day. On their frontpage at the moment they're showing...


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Unlike the southern softy Like scaryjeff I have battled my way into work and am one of only five people in my office. I hope I can get home!

See below the cut for a couple of snowy railway scenes.

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Last night I went to a benefit show for the Free Fringe starring Sean Lock, Robin Ince, Dave Gorman, Lucy Porter and several others. The show was a mixed bag, as you'd expect with so many performers. All the big names were great though.

The show was compèred by Daniel Kitson who, as compères tend to do, chatted with members of the audience. We ( Read more... )

I brought my laptop to my parents house so I could be guarenteed a decent computer to use. Unfortunately my desire to make sure it had all the latest software on it coupled with the fact it hadn't been updated for ages means that I've broken it several interesting ways over the past few days. Consequently I'm writing this blog post on my iPhone ( Read more... )

Today is my last day at work. Tomorrow I pack my bags and make the 90 minute trip up the East Coast Mainline to my parents house. Unfortunately Ellen won't be with me, she'll be making the considerably longer trip from Stanstead to Dublin. As we're not spending the actual day together we decided to have an early Christmas yesterday. We tried to ( Read more... )

I've been using my iPhone for two weeks now, and overall it's great. Easily the best phone I've ever used. It really has changed the way I live my life because there is so much I can now do from anywhere that before I'd need to be at my computer for.

Despite this though, there are a few things that Apple should fix.

1. There's no character count ( Read more... )