December 2008
64 posts
Whoa - dramatic high-speed police chase in our street tonight. The ‘burbs suddenly got interesting.
Visited the Big Brother house yesterday - now trying to hastily learn to edit video so I can upload it to YouTube - any pointers?
Superman Returns? Worth watching a second time?
It frequently surprises me how many medical dramas there are - you’d think they’d run out of storylines by now.
Watching Marisa Tomei in Only You - one of the best romcoms of the 90’s
Confessions of a Demented Housewife by Niamh... →
Confessions Of A Demented Housewife is what I call a toilet book: you leave it in the bathroom and pick it up for five or ten minutes at a time. It doesn’t require massive amounts of brain power,…
Calendar Geeks - The IT Crowd, episode review →
Sadly, tonight’s IT Crowd was the last episode in the series. In another side-splitting show, Roy is ‘flirting’ with the babes on the 7th floor, when one of them opens up to him about her…
God Is Dead by Ron Currie, a review →
In God Is Dead, author Ron Currie imagines a world in which God dies after becoming incarnate as female refugee in Sudan.
It’s an interesting premise for the book. Currie starts with God dying in a…
The Next Doctor - Probably the best Who Christmas... →
When I first saw the teasers for the Christmas episode of Doctor Who claiming it included the ‘Next’ Doctor, I was instantly suspicious. First - with David Tennant signed up to another four…
Watching EastEnders - Is it just me or are Archie, Suzie and Janine more like pantomime actors?
Desktop Blogging Clients for Linux/Ubuntu →
I installed a dual-boot configuration during a system rebuild recently and stuck the latest and greatest version of Ubuntu 8.10 on a sizeable partition. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while,…
Wow, Angelina in Mr & Mrs Smith. Just wow.
Watching Face/Off - you can see the wires attached to some of the actors for when they get shot. D’oh!
What are your Top 5 singles of 2008?
Loving the Black Keys Attack & Release album. It really is an underrated piece of work.
Watching Indiana Jones - the Crystal Skull definitely stands up to the classic Indy movies
Watching Shaun of the Dead.
Is Bennet going to shoot Claire’s mother to save himself?
Oh shit, Ando just injected himself with crazy hero serum
If Arthur Petrelli is dead, will the people he stole powers from get them back?
Check out Scarlet Harlots - I shall refer to them as a post-Arctic Monkeys kind of indie band - http://ping.fm/kSn6M
Watched a real blast from the past movie the other night: Far And Away
Finding I get more work done if I don’t open my email first thing in the morning
Trying to find a usable profile photo that does NOT include me wearing Alice Cooper style makeup
Working on writing an author bio for myself on Unreality. Realised we have nothing like that right now.
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Pondering the size of the spam machine that is constantly trying to trash the internet.
Just discovered that punk.bz is scraping articles from Unreality Music (and others) and not properly crediting the source site
Loving the new version of WordPress - the dashboard makeover is hella good.
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Did anyone watch Beehive on E4 the other night?
Making French toast. Yum! Smells great.
Just heard the new NKOTB/Ne-Yo single. Pretty good - Take That might just have some competition.
Loving Steve’s jobs=modern form of slavery analogy (http://ping.fm/mhLOh)
Getting weepy at Hiro meeting his mother in Heroes…
Getting really tired of those adverts for the Jade Goody programme on Living. Horrible, horrible woman.
Smallville - Committed, episode review →
While I was watching this episode of Smallville, it struck me that I’m not mourning the loss of Lex or Lana at all in the episodes I’ve watched this series.
Having said that, Tess Mercer is…
Just watched an episode of Smallville where Lois and Clarke get strapped to a lie detector and she admits she loves him. Awwww.
Sell your soul much? We’re aghast at some of the terms in the X Factor contracts revealed today
It’s shows like Jerry Springer that make me think we must be overdue for another biblical flood
Having a little play with Wordpress 2.7 in my dev setup…nice back end, @photomatt :) I mean the admin interface, dude.
Just sent the Christmas newsletter to our forum members. Great fun! Nice to summarise all the good stuff on the site sometimes.
Don’t understand the comparisons between Katy Perry and Lily Allen - Katy’s more like Pink. But sexy.
FireFox is struggling this morning. Must get rid of these tabs and restart.
Watching pop videos from 2002 - hated Blue, loved Christina Aguilera’s Dirrty phase
Watching Jerry Springer. Don’t judge me!
Lisa’s obsessed with Grey’s Anatomy now, she’s even hooked by the spin-off, Private Practice
It’s a rainy day here in Northern Ireland
The IT Crowd - Tramps Like Us, an episode review →
Hey, you know those bad things I said about The IT Crowd in my last episode review? Well, forget ‘em, because every last one has been forgiven with this - best episode ever.
You know when an…
Venice is flooded? →
I’m absolutely gutted to hear that Venice is submerged under water.
We went to Venice in June and the city instantly earned a place in my heart. I just hope that it isn’t badly damaged and we’ll…