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Saturday, August 02, 2008

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Get it Now!

Saturday, April 05, 2008

I came across the link in the iTunes Store yesterday for "Chuck".

For those who don't know what this is, it's a fab new comedy series from the USA which starts broadcast on Virgin1 on Monday 7th April.

iTunes have the pilot for download and until the broadcast of the first episode on Virgin1 it's abso0lutely free.

I was a bit wary about downloading the pilot of a show I have never heard of but now I have watched it I will be watching the series on Virgin1.

It's witty, clever, sometimes dramatic and funny. I think it's a great show and look forward to seeing the rest - follow the link to acquire the free download before it's too late!

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ZZZZZzzzzz

Sunday, March 16, 2008

I have been desperately trying to catch up on sleep - not helped by Brandy waking us both up at the crack of dawn yesterday. At least I have managed a respectable lay in until 9 ish today - I was woke up by my baby, Miss Brandy and a bacon sandwich (no that's not a euphemism) ;)

Yesterday was very quiet though. We had the promised quiet day - in fact we watched a couple of movies. Elizabeth, The Golden Age (which was very good if not factually incorrect), and The Simpsons Movie (which was much funnier than I expected. We also played a couple of our regular DVDs in an attempt to see how our new Blu Ray player handled the picture with our new HD TV. I can honestly say we were both pleasantly surprised.

Of course with technology there is always something else isn't there and apart from me still mulling over getting an iPhone and a new Mac Book Pro, we are now wondering if it's possible to stream our ripped DVD movies from our server to the TV with an Apple TV? For now though we can use the Wii the stream movies for us (It's not elegant but it works).

I hope you have all had a listen to Trunk Cast 127 as it details my trip to Athens. I am not going to write anymore about it in the blog as so much happened it's easier to listen to the Trunk Cast.

I am also loving the new Beta version of Firefox, I never liked the old version on my Mac but the new version is incredibly quick and lot of the extensions are very useful. My only gripe with it is the lack of a keyboard shortcut for the home page...

Labels: Cats, Digital Media, Music, Richard, Travel, Trunk Cast, TV, UK, Wii

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Paddles, Stones, Knives, Guns and Wands

Monday, August 27, 2007

This weekend has been very nice - having the extra today off today is an obvious bonus.

Thanks to the weather making a dramatic shift we have been able to make the most of the three days off.

Richard and I had a quiet day on Saturday which is probably just as well as it helped us shift our colds.

On Sunday we visited the Docklands in London, specifically to go to the Docklands Museum. It's owned and run by the Museum of London and we have always said we'd go and finally we managed to! I found the exhibition very interesting as it gives a very graphic portrait of the history of London and the Docks, dating as far back as the Romans to present day.

We made the most of the dock side location and had a spot of lunch in one of the many restaurants offering alfresco dining.

Canary Wharf is not very far from the 02 where we ended up yesterday as we booked to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. It was odd to be back at the 02 so soon after Fridays Prince concert (even odder that the stadium was decked out for the Rolling Stones).

I thought I saw quite a few O(+> t-shirts at the Prince gigs but I was surprised by how many "tongue and mouth" t-shirts I saw the Stones fans wearing. I am not sure what to make of the crowd either - there was a small amount of younger fans but the rest of them appeared to be as old and as geriatric as Mick Jagger and Keith Richards!

The film was good fun though and even though I am not a Harry Potter an I found it entertaining. I do feel however that J K Rowling creates characters just for the sake of it. The headmistress appears to have more attention paid to her than anyone else and yet she is expelled quite rapidly without much intervention from any main characters. And what of the main characters? Do not of them get to progress at any level? It really does appear that they all are a part of the story just to back up Whining Potter!

Richard and I watched the news on the train back yesterday and were not that shocked to hear that someone had been stabbed at the Notting Hill Carnival. Stabbings have became as almost an annual event as he carnival itself. What with the recent culture of knife and gun crime on the streets of the UK I really am worried about the future of this great country. I don't know how things have got to bad not how it can be fixed - all I do know is that government is too soft and the police appear powerless as a result.

I grow tired of the way news and stories are carried on the media. An 11 year old white boy was shot dead (in the back of the neck) in Liverpool earlier this week. It was s hocking story but a couple of days later his tragic tail has slipped to the bottom of the bulletins. When Damilola Taylor, an 8 year old black boy was stabbed to death a couple of years ago in London, his story was top billing for weeks. What allows the news organisations to pitch one story as more important than the other and why aren't they using the news generated from the death of Damilola to make people realise the this poor 11 year old should not have died in this gruesome attack as something should have been done about gang culture years ago!

I really don't know what this country is heading towards...

On a more personal note you may realise that I have decided to end my run of 365 photographs. I enjoy the whole online social thing but to be honest it all takes up too much time. I therefore have decided not to continue with 365 days. I did manage to complete 160 days!

To be perfectly honest I have other things to do with my time, this also a reason why I am growing tired of other social sites such as Facebook - who has the time to spend hours updating useless elements of a web page - and to be honest, who really has the time to read it all? I look at some profiles and wonder if some people actually have much going on in their lives at all as all them appear to do is update My Space and Facebook profiles!

Of course this doesn't mean I will disappear offline nor does it mean I'll stop uploading photos; but only when I have something to share and want to share it!

Labels: London, my, News, Photography, TV, UK, Weather

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Their Life

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

The BBC decided to make an anniversary edition of This Life ten years after the original programmes finished. In an attempt to help us all learn what happened next. (I smell a DVD box set!)

Anyway it was actually really great to see all those wonderful characters back on screen - although I do still hate Egg! Anna was as fiery as ever, you still felt sorry for Milly, Warren still needs a kick up the ass and Miles, well what can you say about Miles...

This Life came around at the right time for me - I was just leaving home, getting in touch with my sexuality etc and to see such lively, vibrant and real characters on screen was a revelation. Nothing had ever been produced or written in such a fashion and nor do I feel that anything has managed to match it since.

It's good to see that even ten years on not much has changed. I think it's very true to life that of all the members who were training to become lawyers, only one of them stuck to it. How many of us train to do one thing and end up doing something else?

Of course a number of the actors (especially Jack Davenport), haven't really been off our screens since This Life ended but I wonder what the others have been up to during the decade that has passed.

It was top notch drama from the BBC though. I just wish there was more programmes on TV like this (and less of the This Life pretenders that have crept into it's place).

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