Ok so I’ve fallen behind a bit on my Doctor Who episode reviews, I think the last one I did was when Martha was still with the Doctor. But hey, it’s the finale, I need to vent my ‘omg-no-Doctor-til-Christmas” feelings.
This meme seems to be everywhere at the moment, so I’m jumping on the bandwagon. As per usual.
Plus my phone, which I stupidly never put in the photo.
I can’t believe that I’m counting down the hours until Doctor Who. 
I’m such a diehard fan girl, I really am. Last week’s episode had me in tears and complete ‘OMG!!! for about 3 hours after it finished.
Of course, the first thing that I did was hit all the DW communities that I’m part of to discuss the episode and all the possibilities and theories surrounding the episode which just got me even more hyper.
In case you’ve not seen it, I won’t go into details but all I can say is that the hand will save the day. Whovians will know what I’m talking about! Trust me, it’s all about the hand.
I downloaded loads of Doctor Who music remixes and fansongs the other day to tide me over to tonight’s episode but when I tried transferring them onto my iPod I realised that I need more laptop memory, because my poor wee Acer kept konking out on me. I’ve got a funny feeling that it’s just Vista being it’s usual crap self, if I put more than 50 songs into iTunes at once it’d crash on me. Uh, hello? I have around 100,000 files to put in iTunes. That’s going to take me while dude. But more memory can never be a bad thing. The computer I’m on just now (the boyfriends - he’s passed out on the bed, fully clothed after yet an other rather drunken night) has 4GB of memory and I’m running a zillion and one things and it’s fine. Saying that, this is running XP too. Don’t care what anyone says, XP Pro is a thousand times better than Vista will ever be.
So, only 8 hours til Doctor Who Series 4 finale, and I can’t wait. I’m going to read my new Who book that I bought last weekend til it’s on. And then cry a lot I think.
Motoring show Top Gear has been criticised by the BBC Trust after viewers complained about “highly irresponsible” footage.
The Polar Special featured hosts Jeremy Clarkson and James May drinking while driving as they tried to reach the Magnetic North Pole last year.
The trust said the scene “could be seen to glamorise the misuse of alcohol”.
The show’s executive producer said they were beyond the jurisdiction of drink driving laws in international waters.
‘Editorial purpose’
The trust was also told that neither presenter was shown “drunk or out of control of the vehicle”.
The BBC Trust said the scene “was not editorially justified in the context of a family show pre-watershed”.
However, it added that at present in the UK, “it is legal to drink a small amount of alcohol and still drive”.
In the same show complaints were also made about scenes showing frostbitten genitalia.
The trust said there was “a clear editorial purpose for the inclusion of an image of a frostbitten penis, which had been shown for “a medical rather than a sexual purpose”.
Source: BBC News
I’m am so amused by this story on the BBC. That episode was ages ago, and yet people are complaining now? Big deal, James and Jeremy had a wee drink while in the car in the Arctic while Jeremy was driving. It’s not like the downed a bottle of Buckfast and got behind the wheel of a car on a motorway and raced each other at 6pm. Nor did the say “Everybody should drink gin when driving, it’s the thing to do”, or glorify drink driving in any way.
Seriously, Britain. Get a grip.
A complete overhaul of the way in which people navigate the internet has been given the go-ahead in Paris.
The net’s regulator, Icann, voted unanimously to relax the strict rules on so-called “top-level” domain names, such as .com or .uk.
The decision means that companies could turn brands into web addresses, while individuals could use their names.
A second proposal, to introduce domain names written in Asian, Arabic or other scripts, was also approved.
“We are opening up a new world and I think this cannot be underestimated,” said Roberto Gaetano, a member of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann)
The organisation said it had already been contacted about setting up domains in the Cyrillic script - used in many Eastern European countries.
“This is a huge step forward in the development of the internet - it will unblock something that has prevented a lot of people getting online,” said Emily Taylor, director of legal and policy at Nominet, the national registry for .uk domain names.
“At the moment, there are one-and-a-half billion people online and four-and-a-half billion people for whom the Roman script just means nothing.”
Dr Paul Twomey, chief executive of Icann, described passing the resolution as a “historic moment”.
Continue reading at BBC News website…
So, finally the internet will be filled with witty .xxx and .blog domains, as well as ‘funky’ domains such as firstname.surname/ Something which I’m not looking forward to. As far as I’m aware TLD’s such as .biz and .me.uk never really took off. I personally wouldn’t want one, rather sticking to .com and .co.uk - and the latter only because of the uk part.
The only thing that I can see myself doing would be having a .scot just because I’m so proud of my nationality - but it doesn’t make for a sexy looking domain name - ashesfromstars.scot, anyone? google.rocks? msn.sucks? Novelty, that’s all. It (hopefully) will get old quickly.
But out of interest, what would you want to register and why?
Finally, my Avon order was delivered. Well, the card to tell me that ’sorry, there was nobody in’ was personally handed to me by the post man. Cheeky swine!
I went to pick up my parcel yesterday when I finished work and used the over-night cream last night. All I can say is wow, my skin was so smooth and lovely when I woke up this morning. Here’s hoping that the anti-cellulite body sculpting creme is just as good, I’m wearing shorts at T In The Park so I want my legs to look as good as possible. Vain? Me? Nah!
I’ve just this minute found out that you’ve gotten your girlfriend pregnant.
I should be very happy for you, when in fact I’d quite like to knock your head off of something very hard, tie your hands behind your back and demand to borrow the TARDIS from The Doctor in order to go back a few months so that you never meet her.
We (me, the boyfriend and friends) have told you since day one that she was out to get everything she could from you. First it was staying in your house 24/7, even when you were at work or with us. Next it was unofficially moving in with you, then getting a key to your house when you wouldn’t even give your friends of at least 10 years one for case of emergency. Then she got kicked out of college for never showing up because hanging on to your every word was more important than her education.
Next came the jokes of how she’d deliberately fall pregnant in order to ‘keep’ you and get money from the government. Yes, even you made these jokes.
You don’t ‘do’ kids. You’ve always, always said that if you actually managed to get a girl pregnant you’d make her get rid of it (you always are a charmer that way). In fact at the moment you’re drinking yourself under the table with the boys, just to forget.
I love you as a friend, I really do. The fact that I don’t find your girlfriend very interesting has nothing to do with the fact that at the moment I think you are the biggest idiot on the planet. Because you knew what her little plan was and yet here we go, you’ve fallen for it hook, line and sinker
I really hope that this is what you want, friend. Because you’ve now got to grow up. No more drinking as much as you can every weekend, getting drunker than the weekend before. All nighters? Yes you’ll still have them but not in the way you still do. And more to the fact, somebody else will rely on you. Yes, you. The person who finds is acceptable to eat 2 days out of date meat and eggs and mix your drink and drugs. The boy who still acts 16 even though you’re 23. In around 9 months there will be a little you on this planet (god help us all), needing you to do everything for them. You can’t even phone your own taxi home most weekends.
Don’t get me wrong, we’ll all be there for you. But I think your an idiot, really I do.
I’m fed up reading about other blogger’s going on holiday or planning holidays, I’m so jealous! In the past few weeks I’ve read about Rhys’s American dream, Han going first class to Florida, Jenn & family hitting the beach, Starlet being attacked by evil seagulls in Wales, to name but a few. Lucky, lucky people - you really are. The last time I was on holiday was in 2003 and that was a weekend in Dublin with the boyfriend. Before that I think the last time I was abroad for a proper 2 weeks in the sun holiday was America when my little brother was 4 - he’s now 15!
There’s only one real place that I want to go in the whole entire world - Las Vegas, baby! I’m been fascinated by the glitz, glamour, lights and gambling of Las Vegas for a very long time which was made a hella lot more intense with by my obsession of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
It’s my dream to stay in either Circus Circus or the Luxor before I’m 30. The boyfriend agrees, he’d love to go to Vegas too. And I kind of have it on a promise that if we ever went to Vegas it’d be acceptable to get married - and that’s never, ever going to happen in Scotland!
As always, the problem with going to Vegas is the money. We’re both terrible at saving money even for nice things like holidays and things. Plus we’d need gambling money so we’d have to stay in one of the many other hotels in las vegas that aren’t as famous or expensive as the Stratosphere or the Four Queens hotel just to fund our fun!
Anybody else been to Vegas? Is it really as magical as it’s made out to be?
I’m so geeky, I really am. When I heard about WordPress 2.6 beta being released I actually said ‘Yes’ outloud rather loudly.
I’ve updated both my blogs to WordPress 2.6 Beta and have run into no problems whatsoever. The function for previewing past versions of entries and posts is great as sometimes I do edit them a bit too much and have to remember what I’ve taken out when I didn’t mean to.
The word count function on the Write page is excellent too, because some of my paid-to-post entries require a minimum word count, so I’ve been able to delete the plugin that I usually used for this function.
If you aren’t too keen on upgrading your WordPress installation until the release is out of beta testing stage, never fear. WordPress 2.6 should be out around July.
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