I’m starting to think that Paul is up to something nefarious as he’s now in a three-nil lead following the death of Bobby Robson.
I’ll update the web page over the weekend.
[update] – web site updated, including correctly marking Howie’s score from April, so Paul is leading with three, then Howie on one, then the rest of us with nothing.
To describe someone as “the best actor in TNG” obviously falls into the category of damning with faint praise. 
What prompted my previous post was going to see Waiting for Godot on Wednesday, this production has a very impressive cast list: Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Ronald Pickup and Simon Callow. And it struck me that Patrick Stewart looked a little uncomfortable and stiff, in particular with the physical comedy aspects of the production.
Basically, what Linnie said.
I would sit down and watch Patrick Stewart in almost anything (but I gave up on Eleventh Hour after one episode ‘cos it was just dull) but there’s a certain type of part he does very, very well and outside of that he’s still good but not the greatest.
mischievousWe only think of Patrick Stewart as a really good actor because he was the best actor in TNG.
Discuss.
mischievousI think I’ve found the root cause of why some date pickers are behaving oddly.
<c:if test="${criteria.startDate eq date and criteria.startDate eq null}">
criteria.startDate is a date object, however date is a calendar object representing the current date and should never be null. Hence, it’s impossible for the above test to return true.
The code is total garbage and I wrote it. 
I wish I had an excuse – I was still learning JSP, we were in a rush, it didn’t crash anything, but frankly I should have spotted the dumbness of it before now. Oh well, on with the fixing.
aggravatedFive years ago today I made the first post on this blog. 828 posts later here we are.
The posting rate has varied enormously but averages one post every 2.2 days. It was highest when I was self employed and working from home and lowest after Facebook and Twitter started to eat up some of the shorter, quicker posts I could have made.
Around 700 of those posts have also appeared on the LiveJournal version of the blog (which generates more comments than the main version, 882 vs 392), and around 250 have appeared as notes in Facebook.
I’ve moved host once, upgraded WordPress countless times, but kept more or less the same look and feel.
I’ve learnt how to code with XSLT, JSP and jQuery. I’ve also moved house, changed job, been to Venice, Amsterdam, Vancouver and Dublin, bought a lot of dinosaurs and gotten married.
Wales have won the Grand Slam, twice. Doctor Who and Star Trek have both returned triumphantly. Tony Blair and George Bush have left the building.
It’s been a busy five years, and that’s a very true thing.
The Beeb have released details of Doctor Who 2010 – Karen Gillan’s character is called Amy Pond and we have a first look at Matt Smith’s costume.
The Time Lord’s new look consists of tweed jacket, bow tie, rolled up trousers and black boots.
Maybe it’s just the picture but that doesn’t look very good to me. I think the problem is that the sort of look that would suit Smith best is … the sort of look that Tennant has been doing for the last four years.
Via Miss SB comes the Can you list all your MPs? meme.
Baker, Patten and Jowell are the ones I was aware of, which was depressing enough…