I watched the first episode of Game of Thrones season 2 this evening. I thought it was good, although it's possibly the least eventful episode of the show so far. I think the ever-expanding cast and number of plotlines may be a bit of a problem for the show's pacing (as it has been in the last couple of books), although maybe once they've got a lot ( Read more... )

I've just been going through the photos I took on my recent trip up to Scotland (I got back on Tuesday, after three days back at work I'm wondering when the next holiday is). There were quite a few of them, partially because it was brilliant weather most of the time (by Scottish standards, anyway) and most Scottish scenery does look a lot better in ( Read more... )

I'm up in Scotland for a dozen days, thanks to Easter being immediately followed by public holidays for the Royal Wedding and May Day, I get to take 12 days off while only using 4 days vacation, which is nice. Yesterday my aunt and uncle, two cousins, cousin's husband and their 18-month old son came through to visit. 18-month old children can be ( Read more... )

I finished watching the first episode of the Game of Thrones TV series a couple of hours ago. Despite all the advance footage and trailers looking very promising, I was still a bit nervous before watching it, wondering if they'd do the book justice. There's always a bit of nervousness about adaptations of books I really like, and this is ( Read more... )

After spending most of yesterday evening try to fix it, my computer is now back in a state where it actually boots up without immediately restarting, which is nice. The key clue to what was wrong with it came when brucec helpfully asked in a comment to my previous post if I used AVG, which I do. A bit of Googling revealed that AVG's forums were filled ( Read more... )

My computer seems to have decided that it won't start up Windows at all, which is worrying ( Read more... )

I think I said a few weeks ago that I was looking to buy a new TV. After some delays waiting for the one I wanted to come back into stock, I had it delivered yesterday. It's a 32" Toshiba HD LCD, which is significantly larger than the 24" Sanyo CRT TV I'd been using for the last 10 years. The increase in size is very noticeable, oddly it seems more ( Read more... )

Went to see Inception yesterday at the cinema, first time I've been for a few weeks due to the poor selection of films being released recently. I've really liked Christopher Nolan's so far (well, Insomnia was only OK, but the rest were great) so I was looking forward to it. I wouldn't say it is the best of Nolan's films, but it is a good film, and ( Read more... )

A few days ago I went to the opticians to get my eyes tested for the first time in 6 years. As I thought, my eyesight has only changed a little bit in the intervening period so there was only a fairly small change in the prescription. I picked up the new glasses today, distant things now do seem slightly sharper than before, which is nice. As usual ( Read more... )

I watched the series finale of Ashes To Ashes tonight. I'd been busy for a few Fridays in a row so had the last 5 episodes recorded which I watched over the last week. A few days ago I was discussing how few shows seem to end on an entirely satisfying note, regardless of whether they are cancelled (Flash Forward, to take another example from this ( Read more... )