I am Ashley Elsdon

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Month: June 2015

So, no Utopia season 3 then

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What a shame. I only just found out. I thought that the first season was brilliant and I really enjoyed the second season too, but with it left on a cliff hanger of sorts I’ve been occasionally wondering when the third series would turn up. So today I thought about it and decided to look it up only to find that it has been cancelled by Channel 4.

Even though it was hugely popular it turns out that season 3 isn’t going to get made for budget reasons. It’s a poor show in my view. A series as good as this doesn’t come along very often and for it to be cancelled is just nonsense. It’s a real missed opportunity.

How’s that Pebble then?

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So, a couple of days into my use of the Pebble Time, how’s it going? Well so far so good. Today I was interested to see how the constant bluetooth LE connection would drain my iPhone 6. It seemed to add an additional drain, but not too much. So that’s a good sign, a good step forward.

Notifications are pretty good though. I quite like them even though they get a little bit annoying at times, but I think that’s more to do with my having too many on my iPhone anyway, so perhaps it’s a good prompt to clear those up.

Next I’m interested to see how I can do more with the Pebble and get it working for me in the way I’d really like it to. More of that soon though.

Uncommon Deities … a work of incredible beauty

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I’ve had this album for some time but never spent enough to really listen to it deeply, but I did that the other week and found it was a work of almost intense beauty and depth. The words and the concepts are unique and wonderful and executed in such a subtle way it has to be one of the most thought provoking albums I’ve heard in ages.

I really want to listen to it again, in the same sort of environment, with the same attention to listening. It isn’t always something that’s easy to do.