TMINE

Time is precious. There’s simply too much TV for any one person to watch. But sooner or later we all find some favourite shows that we’re prepared to sacrifice our time on, because we enjoy them – or because we have to review them and get paid for our sacrifice.

But no matter how good some shows start off, they often go to pot after a while or we find we simply don’t have the time to watch them any more.

So meme of the week is a quick question: which TV shows have you stopped watching recently and why?

I’ve just decided after five seasons that enough is enough and I’m not bothering with the mindless repetition, thin characterisation and rubbish plots of Numb3rs any more, except if they have a good guest star. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is on the back burner now, despite having terminators in it, since its silliness, derivativeness and pretension were getting up my nose. And I’m seriously considering giving CSI the chop, simply because I’m not invested in the characters any more.

How’s about you?

A very slightly exciting technical innovation: it’s now possible to log in to the blog with your FaceBook account and have your profile pic and a link to your profile appear next to your comments (comme ça). There’s a very slight formatting issue and it goes a weird if you log out, but it seems to work fine otherwise.

A very slightly less exciting technical innovation: it’s now possible to ‘follow’ the blog using the widget underneath the Recent Comments/News/Latest/Popular/Tags thingie in the sidebar. I think it means you get to find out when there’s an update or something, but I guess it’s also a way of showing support in a Web 2.0 sort of way.

Let me know if you have any problems.

UPDATE: If you want to link to a site other than your FaceBook profile such as your blog, let me know, either directly or in your first comment, and I’ll make it so – as I’ve just done with Marie’s comments (fingers crossed).

The observant may have noticed that I’ve finally bitten the bullet and moved the blog over to www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com from its old address – we’ve even got a shiny new favicon to celebrate. Fingers crossed, everything’s still working, but what probably won’t be working is that if you used “Remember personal information” , you’ll have to re-enter your name, etc, again. Sorry about that, but that’s cookies for you, but you should only need to enter the information once.

Let me know (by email if necessary) if anything more serious occurs. You might need to press refresh once as well, just to make sure everything’s updated. Sorry again, for that.

PS Links to the old URLs will still work, but if you want to update your links, that would be spiffy. Thanks!