Is the audio version of Shada that’s just started on BBC7 (and available on CD from Big Finish) exactly the same as the webcast version that’s on the BBC Doctor Who web site (minus the pictures of course)?

Now, who wants to have an argument about whether the 4th Doctor or 8th Doctor version of the story is more canon?

Very True Mood:  thoughtful

Lambeth Country Show was better than it had any right to be.

pink_weasel has the pics and vids.

Very True Mood:  hot

Current problem is with getting FireFox to display a page properly. It’s connected to my old friends fieldsets and legends and this time IE and Opera are co-operating but FireFox isn’t.

More later when I’ve made some simplified test cases.

Very True Mood:  pissed off

Lots of sushi + lots of beer + waiting ages for a night bus + only three hours sleep = very groggy thing

So, please can you all keep the Internet quiet today? Thank you.

Very True Mood:  groggy

As if I didn’t have enough to read, here are a few more blogs that I’ve been looking at lately.

Darren Naish: Tetrapod Zoology - Incredibly fascinating science stuff.

Yours in a White Wine Sauce - Military History that never was.

Too many Ideas - SFSFW stalwart Mark Caldwell’s computer art, writing and other stuff.

ThePickards - some northern bloke who’s related to some other northern bloke that I work with. Web accesssibilty and football rants.

The Flogging Will Continue - Daniel James, aka Captain Cleaver, the head of Three Rings on MMORPGs and the future of entertainment.

Very True Mood:  pleased

Random observation: is the name of next year’s Doctor Who companion, Martha Jones, (and if just her name is a spoiler for you, get a life) a combination of those two great comic book heroines Martha Washington and Halo Jones?

Very True Mood:  curious

Right, hello, does this thing still work? Oh good.

Um, me, yes, what have I been up to? Ohhh, um, er, okay, not much actually, but enough, if you know what I mean. Which you probably don’t, ‘cos I’m being incoherent. Oh well, Sunday mornings are made for incoherence. Looks at clock. Ah, I’ve got six minutes to write this post or I’ll have to start being coherent.

Yesterday, pink_weasel and I went down to sunny Surrey to see my parents. Lunch at The Plough at Blockbrook, good as ever though they seem to be getting a bit over ambitious with the menu. Then shifting furniture so that the floor in the dining room can be ripped up and the damp problem finally solved after all these years.

Back home with new footstool to go with the chair we liberated last time we were down there. Faffed about for a bit and then…

How amazing was Doctor Who?

Wow. Brilliant. Proper review type thingy later.

This afternoon off to see Pirates at the cinema in Croydon. And this week we have a Bollywood movie being filmed in the office, whilst we’re working; an Idle Spec meeting; and the office summer party at some OTT bar/restaurant/lounge place up in Camden; and if I’m not too hungover the next day back up to North London to see Drill Queen play. Gah.

Bugger. 12:01. Time to start making sense.

[Update] - Interesting, Word Press is stuck on GMT so I manually edited the time stamp on this post to make sense in relation to the content. But as that’s in the future as far as Word Press is concerned it isn’t displaying the post. I hope it will display in an hour’s time. Anyone know of a WP hack to make it understand daylight saving? Otherwise, well changing the time zone setting twice a year is the sort of thing more likely to be forgotten than not.

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( Which Batman character are you? )

Phew, just 1% off being Robin….

Very True Mood:  grumpy

( Spoilers for this week's and speculation for next week's Doctor Who )