365 days ago I made a post about things I was looking forward to in 2005. How did they turn out?

Obviously, getting married and the subsequent honeymoon was fabulous beyond words. (If you haven’t seen them already Lettice has stuck a whole load of photos online.) Also on a personal front I moved house and got a new job, so a very good year.

Doctor Who was incredible. Listened to some of the commentaries on the DVD box set (and is that a wastfeul piece of pacakaging or what?) yesterday and was thrilled all over again by the passion and dedication of the people who brought the Doctor back.

The market share of Internet Explorer did continue to fall. On the SFSFW site it fell from 77% to 67%. This is also the year that Opera became totally free. I also finally got around to learning a bit of XSLT which I’ve been meaning to do for ages.

Serenity was the best film of the year for me (yes I have middle-brow sci-fi tastes, didn’t you know?) and well worth the wait. Can we have a sequel (or two or three or…) please? Batman Begins and The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse were also very good whilst The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Revenge of the Sith were better than expected (but as we expected total train wrecks that’s not actually saying much).

And finally, I was looking forward to the general election, but it turned out a bit dull. It did give us one last chance to be rude about Tim Collins before he vanished into well deserved oblivion. But for my political fix this year I’ve been watching the post-election leadership battles (Brown vs. Blair; Davies vs. Cameron; everyone vs. Kennedy) with much glee. Politicians spending so much time shafting each other means, we can but hope, that they have less time for shafting us.

Good things I didn’t predict at the start of last year included, Wales winning a Grand Slam; England winning the Ashes; London winning the Olympics; Judge Jones putting both boots into the Intelligent Design movement.

Went up to town today for a bit of shopping. Took one look at the wall of rucksacks in the tube station and decided to walk from Victoria to the West End (nice little stroll past St James’s Park and the Admiralty, etc.). Then at Forbidden Planet there was a huge queue ‘cos Simon Pegg was doing a signing, but they’d put the queue out the back so it didn’t interfere much at all with normal shopping (well what passes for normal in FP). But if the queue for Simon Pegg was as long as the one I saw today I dread to think how long the queue will be next week when Neil Gaiman is signing…

I nearly made it out of FP with wallet intact. Then I saw something that I had to have. So I spent £25 on a tee-shirt. Gulp. So, quick quiz. Who can guess what’s in the tee-shirt?

Lettice is out doing karaoke tonight so I’m home on my home listening and sometimes watching the fireworks. We’re nice and high up so I can see loads of displays. Tomorrow is the big display at Crystal Palace and I hope we get a good view of that as well.

Wales 3 - New Zealand 41.

As tagged by Littlebun here are ten things that make me happy.

1. Lettice
2. Being right about stuff
3. Wales winning the Six Nations
4. Learning new stuff
5. Miniatures, especially dinosaurs and spaceships
6. The Dalek Song
7. Cats
8. Drinking beer and talking rubbish with my friends
9. Good books
10. The sort of television that makes me jump and down with joy because it’s so funny and exciting and clever - for example Doctor Who, Firefly, Farscape

I couldn’t let my last post before going on honeymoon be about TV…

So it’s about nothing much at all instead.

Except to note that I’ll miss the last test.

Five minutes to play. Wales lead 32-20 but Ireland are fighting back hard. The championship is probably safe (Wales need to lose by more than ten points to lose the championship) but is the Grand Slam?

Argh. And I’m due in town at six.

Happy St Patrick’s day to any Irish readers. Celebrate today because come Saturday we’ll be wiping the smiles off your faces…

Wales are running away with it. Four tries in less than half an hour. And they’re making it look easy.

Yes! France 18 - Wales 24

To celebrate this, and St David’s Day in Tuesday the default scheme on this blog has taken on a Welsh theme. But if you don’t like it (what’s wrong with you?) you can change it with my nifty new style switcher (you must have cookies enabled). You can choose from three colour schemes and whether the sidebar appears on the left or the right. Have fun playing with it.

… for the French to remember how to play Rugby.

12-0 down after twelve minutes.

[Update 17:04] - Two tries in the first five minutes of the second half. 15-18.

Italy 8-38 Wales

Oh, I’m a happy bunny.

Almost happy enough to ignore the self-destructing washing machine, glass smashing incident that dragged me from my nice warm bed this morning.

And I’ve got another job interview on Wednesday. If I can get this job then I may have the money to escape from this flat and find somewhere nicer. Please.