FoxBoom!

“OMG HARDCORE” by Jon Eccleston

Don’t get too close! He’ll fuck you up!

Wow, this one’s been sitting in draft for months…

You find yourself sitting on a train, waiting to leave at the station platform.

In one hand, you have a ticket home which can only be used today. In the other, a ticket home which can be used only tomorrow.

The train won’t leave for a couple of minutes. You have time to make the decision. And what a decision.

I get could off the train, quick. I could stay another day… I could get hurt, or it could all be okay.

I could stay on the train. I could go home, lick my wounds and spend my week’s food budget on alcohol, and try again another day.

Risk it all; I could win and life would never be the same again, or I could lose and be found floating face-down in Cardiff Bay. Or play it safe and just carry another scar.

The moment was electric. I knew that whatever I decided, it would affect me for months afterwards.

I already had both tickets. There was no financial cost to worry about. Which ever way I went, I had food and water and a place to stay.

…and just as I stood up, the doors locked.

Here’s the ad that got pulled here in the UK. *cry*

“You spent $120 on… trousers?”

The GPS and everything is great and all, but this is why I need to upgrade.

missFlag have done a fantastic cover of “Still Alive”.

Nope, I’m not bored of this song yet. Not yet.

I’ve been using Evernote for a few days now, and y’know? I think it’s a keeper.

There’s a great demo video on the site, and it’ll really show you everything you need to know, but I discovered something awesome last night, and now I’m totally sold; on the Mac, it installs itself into the “print to PDF” menu, so now I can send receipts straight into my library.

Keeping all my documents and receipts together now is such a no-brainer, and I can get at them from my iPhone, my Mac at home and my PC at work. If/when I hit the free service’s limits, it’s a dead cert I’ll get a premium account.

Fantastic!

Plan for today:

1. Go find Becky at the train station.
2. Convince Spirit to go out for coffee.
3. Buy a delivery label slip so I can SEND MY FUCKING XBOX BACK AND GET IT REPAIRED OH GOD MY LIFE IS EMPTY WITHOUT GUITAR HERO.

Also, seriously, I’m putting XP on my Eee after I get paid at the end of the month. I want Firefox 3, plus this utilitarian look isn’t doing anything for me.

Me: LOL!

Andy: “Lots Of Love”? I don’t think that’s very appropriate…

Me: No, it doesn’t mean…

Andy: Doesn’t it? I thought it did. “Oh, you’re sick? LOL!” Or, “Is that your leg over there? LOL!”

Me: LOL!

So, the morning kicked off with the mid-season finale of Battlestar Galactica. And that’s all I can say, because I don’t want to spoil it for anyone.

And then the day ends with that episode of Doctor Who. And again, I don’t want to say anything more, for the sake of anyone who hasn’t seen it yet.

But, OH MY GOD, this was one of the big ones. This one had a little bit of everything, with a shout-out to Torchwood and those two beautiful, incredible words…

I remember when last year’s “The Sound of Drums” kinda evoked “Children of Men“’s urban dystopia, but hell, that’s got nothing on “Turn Left”. British society decimated, martial law, refugees, labour camps (or, at least, “that’s what they called them last time” and FUCK ME how dark is this going to get?)

But don’t let my dumb grin fool you. Maybe — MAYBE — I was a little harsh on Catherine Tate being in the show, but Donna Noble has still been majorly fucking irritating at times. These episodes have been despite Donna, not because of her.

But hey, forget that for now. I’ve had an amazing 40 minutes of TV, and an incredible teaser for next week to boot. I’m blown away.

If you think your business plan is going to make you “bigger than Google”, then, I hate to be cruel, but you’re probably wrong.

It’s been going for a while now, but I’ve only just really noticed it. The BBC’s Programmes site aims to provide a permanent page for every BBC show ever broadcast, with a mind for the Semantic Web and smart design.

It really is exciting to see the BBC discussing and embracing standards.

A bunch of my photos have been accepted for Google Earth. That’s nice!

I’ve just had the most perfect weekend. I don’t even care so much that my Xbox is dead and I have to get the train into work tomorrow.