Happy Birthday Alan Turing

Mr Turing would have been 100 years old today. His legacy to computing is amazing, there’s no doubt about that. I went to a big celebration at Bletchley Park in 2009 where I learnt a lot about him and what he’d done. Back in 2009 you didn’t hear so much about him and his work, I’m glad that’s changed.

Today I went to an exhibition about him at the Science Museum, and whilst it was only a small exhibition it’s good to see the recognition.

New series of Primeval, no, sadly not

Whilst Primeval certainly wasn’t the best of science fiction, it was also not the worst, and it had a lot of good points. So I was really pleased to hear that it was coming back to ITV1. Sadly, whilst that’s true, it isn’t actually a new series. It’s just ITV1 showing series 5. From what I’ve read it seems unlikely that a series 6 is going to come about after all.

That’s a shame as I think they were going in some good direction. There’s still some hope, but it is slim.