It was just an incredible gig.
Month: July 2012
Finished watching heroes
Or have I? I got to the end of the fourth season to find that this wasn’t really the ending I was looking for at all! In fact it was in many ways just left hanging. Not satisfactory in any way. I realise that it is now very unlikely that there will be another series commissioned, but I just wish that these kind of things would get left in a decent state!
I’m a bit disappointed by this as you might tell.
Congo
I decided to buy this DVD after a long time. I always watch this film when it comes up on the TV schedules. I know it isn’t the best bit of cinema ever made. But it’s fun. Harmless and relatively enjoyable, but certainly not something that’s going to ever change the film business.
Waiting for WeMo
I found out about Belkin’s WeMo technology a few weeks ago. It’s a really accessible method of implementing home automation and control it via an iPhone app from Belkin. The hardware is sort of modular in that you can buy a single unit which is essentially just a switch which can be controlled via the web / app. There’s also a motion detection modular as well. Whilst on it’s own that’s pretty amazing on it’s own, it gets better. WeMo also integrates with IFTTT!
What’s IFTTT? It’s one of the best automation services ever. IFTTT (If This Then That) allows you to make decisions and trigger actions using social services like twitter and facebook and loads more besides. It’s amazing. Anyway, you can control the WeMo hardware using IFTTT. Now that’ll be amazing.
The only downside is that WeMo isn’t available in the UK as yet. Hopefully it’ll be available in October. I hope it isn’t much longer to wait than that.
4th Doctor: The Hornet’s Nest
On the long drive to Wales for Beyond the Border I listened to the whole of the Hornet’s Nest again. I’d forgotten just how good the writing was in this story in five one hour parts. It was not only a great story, but also so well written and amusing. It was a joy to listen to it again, and it’s prompted me to listen to the next two stories as well.
In fact, I’m hoping that there might even be another Hornet’s nest story too. Although now that Tom Baker has signed up with Big Finish that might not be on the cards.
Even so, the existing stories are still great.
I missed one out!
Having got to the end of “The Silver Turk” I’ve found out that I’ve missed out an 8th Doctor story, or rather, 4 stories, in which Mary Shelley is introduced! So I need to do a little bit of catching up soon otherwise I’ll get completely out of step with the 8th Doctor.
Some more pictures of the Waveshapper project
I’m hoping to get some more time to finish this off soon.
Doctor Who: The Silver Turk
I just started listening to this 8th Doctor adventure this morning. The first thing that startled me a little was that the theme tune has changed. I’m not quite sure what I think of it so far. My guess is that they wanted to draw a line between this and the Charley Pollard stories. That’s fine. Perhaps I’ll get used to it. It’s obviously the original actual theme but a bit different, an unusual take on the classic theme.
The next thing is the choice of new companion. That was a shock. I knew they’d plug in a new companion but I didn’t expect it to be a real person from history! Mary Shelley is an odd choice I think, but part way through the first CD I think it’s working out ok. I’ll have to see what my view is when I’ve listened to the whole thing.
Still thinking about integrating Romo into music making
I’m not sure how, but I think it needs to be done!
Blake’s 7: Seek, Locate, Destroy
The last episode of Season 1, disk 2. Servalan and Travis arrive on the scene and things start to get much more interesting. I love it! It’s made me think about re-listening to the audio-books that I’ve got and even getting a few more from Big Finish.
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