14 Nov 2009 (Saturday) 

Well, golly. Stargate Universe pulls off a good episode and a decent cliffhanger in 'Time' today. It didn't start off well, but my predictions of what's going to happen didn't come true and we were left with a decent cliffhanger. Although I do question the fact that the worm hole was open when the flare occurred - previously it's been stated that the flare had to happen during the connection, I thought.

Alex rang me today on Skype with Claire, which was really sweet .

I've tidied up some of the boxes in my room today, too. Mostly I've got rid of junk that I'll never need - stupidly small 'MB' disc drives, stacks of documentation that I'll never need and loads of other bits and pieces. The room still looks a mess but I'm getting there.

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8 Nov 2009 (Sunday) 

I've submitted another exciting patch for IMDB::Film today; a patch to add support for fetching videos related to a film. It's not all that exciting, as mostly it links to .flv files. But the flvs can easily be played with mplayer or converted with mencoder, so that's useful to me.

I've got the theme from 'Peter and the Wolf' going around my head. Those whole thing is pretty anyhow, and I've just been listening to the only copy I have of it - which seems to be a narration by Pooh!

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1 Nov 2009 (Sunday) 

Watched Stargate Universe again last night - an episode called Water - which doesn't particularly thrill me from just the name, given that I'm sure there an episode of that name on Battlestar Galactica that made me finally say 'oh screw this'. Despite being given the similarity of name... no... it was actually that dull. So much so that I'd lost sufficient faith in watching anything worthwhile that I went to sleep instead of watching FlashForward. I find it difficult to recall now - this morning - what it was that was good about the episode. I can remember the bad... I remember more of the relationship crap, random 'sometimes people lie' yelling, vague 'we're going to save you and I'm not leaving until we do', and blah. The very mild saving grace was the alien from sand planet, but the stupidity of shooting at an entity made up at bugs completely ruled that out.

I may give it one more in order to get better, but I'm pretty sure that they've lost me.

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