I went to see Iron Man 2 today at the cinema. I know this is a few weeks after most people that have seen it, although I was quite keen to see it having enjoyed the first film a lot and thinking the trailers looked good, a combination of going to Chester, going up to Scotland for a week and the friend I was going to see it with having to cancel ( Read more... )

I'm up in Scotland at the moment. In retrospect, I'm not quite sure why I decided to schedule visiting Scotland a few days after the trip to Chester, since I'm now quite tired of travelling after going from Cambridge to Chester to Cambridge and then four days later from Cambridge to Pitlochry (7 hour train journey which went very smoothly, but I  ( Read more... )

Somewhat belatedly I went to see Avatar at the cinema yesterday. I'd been meaning to see it for a while, since many people had said they were at least partially impressed by it, but various things (mostly weather-related) meant I hadn't been able to go see it until yesterday. There was an extra unanticipated delay as the tickets for the 5 o'clock ( Read more... )

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A few days ago, xraytheenforcer made a post on the subject of how terrible a year 2009 has been for lots of people. I commented then that although 2009 has been OK to me personally, it has been an awful year for a lot of people I know, and unfortunately that trend seems to be continuing.

Today I got into work and found we had an unscheduled meeting where we were ( Read more... )

I looked at my LJ profile earlier this week and noticed that today would be the 5th anniversary of me setting up this Livejournal. Looking back at my first post I said in it that I wasn't sure how much I would really use it. Looking back after 5 years, I can't say I've posted very prolifically on my own journal (only 97 posts in that time) but I've ( Read more... )

I've just finished retuning my Freeview (for non-Brits, that's the digital terrestrial TV service) box to restore half the channels that disappeared today. This wasn't a surprise since they've been showing warning messages that it would happen for a few days (apparently they're moving some of the channel frequencies around to be able to fit HD  ( Read more... )

• While in the queue to buy lunch today, I was trying to get the correct change out ready to pay when I noticed one of the pound coins looked a bit... odd. On closer inspection it turned out not be a UK pound coin at all but from the "Bailwick of Guernsey". I'm guessing it isn't legal tender (well, except in Guernsey). 
• I was just looking at my ( Read more... )

I went to see Red Cliff at the cinema. Overall, I thought it was an entertaining film despite a few odd moments. The film is almost all in Chinese with English subtitles, which made it a bit disconcerting that the opening narration and another narration slightly later in the film were done in English by an American who sounded very much like the ( Read more... )