I don’t do squee. I’m male and an old-school fan and sensible and self conscious. But….

How bloody amazing was that?

About ten minutes in I was wondering whether this was a sly remake of the DWM comic strip End of the Line and was expecting a similarly downbeat ending.

Then Derek Jacobi started dropping hints and any thoughts about this episode’s supposed plot went straight out of my head. Instead I was on the edge of my seat pointing at the screen, and maybe, just a little, going …

squee

Ahem. Sorry.

Current Mood:  bouncy

Day one of @media was really good. I’m feeling more enthused and fired up and full of ideas about both what to do at work and with my own sites than I have for a long time. I’ll write about it fully over the weekend.

However, my good mood was ruined by the discovery upon getting home that my desktop computer is kaput (I’m writing this on the laptop), either Windows or the hard drive or both are refusing to work properly. In fact for once I think it genuinely is a hardware fault and Windows is just an innocent victim.

I want to spend my weekend adding cool new stuff to my web site, not staring at a Windows Recovery Console.

Current Mood:  cranky

I’m attending @media in Islington this Thursday and Friday. I know that some of the regular readers of this blog aren’t attending this year, but is anyone who reads this attending?

So there’s this news story that everyone’s blogging about and I’m not. I’m not even commenting on it on other people’s blogs. I was writing a comment to make a minor factual point about a background issue when I realised that it would either be the most boring comment ever or seem to be a comment on the main issue. So I gave up and wrote this instead.

Current Mood:  contemplative

E-mail I just sent to Lloyds TSB:

> Dear Valued Customer,
[snip]

Hang on a moment. I closed my account with Lloyds TSB in 2001 or 2002. I really shouldn’t be in your system anymore. Please fix it so that I don’t keep on receiving these e-mails. It was funny for the first year or two, now it’s just spam.

Back in 2005 or so I did actually test whether I could still log onto their systems. I could, but as there were no accounts associated with the login I couldn’t do anything. But it’s nice to know they still value my custom after all these years.

Current Mood:  cynical