Sorry if you were actually trying to do anything unusual like view some blog entries today – my useless web host has struck again. Guess who’s going to be moving home when I get back from my holidays…
In the meantime, I’ve changed a specific setting in the blog, which should make the whole thing more stable, although it might make commenting slower. Sorry!
TMINE
Problems posting, etc
Sorry if you’ve had any difficulties viewing articles or commenting on them today – my web host (Data Flame) sucks and I’m considering moving to another one cos they’re nothing but a pain in the bottom. Hopefully, everything’s fine again, now.
Thanks to Toby for letting me know, and if anyone else has problems commenting, email me using the link at the side of the page so I can kick Dataflame around a bit.
Go and buy Marie’s book
Blimey. Time flies, doesn’t it? Is it really nearly August already?
If it is, it must be time to buy Marie’s book, Gods Behaving Badly.
If you don’t know what it’s about, you can either ask her or click the play button below and she’ll tell you. One of them’s bound to work.
Happy Second Birthday, Blog
Happy Birthday, The Medium is Not Enough. Yes, two years ago (sort of, subject to blog migration, blog splitting, blog reunions, etc), this blog emerged into the light of the Internet with its first two posts: a preview of the still-popular Prison Break, the not-unpopular Supernatural and the still-unseen Global Frequency; and tedious cruft about The Omega Factor (which I’m still just about to write a review of, amazingly enough).
Oddly enough, that paragraph, more or less, was how I greeted the blog’s first birthday and it’s still true. Plus ça change…
In our second year, what have I discovered?
- Y’all are still kind of interested in David Tennant and Doctor Who, but less by Torchwood
- Time may march on but before, during and after every episode of The F-Word, everyone will be dying to know who wrote the theme tune
- The “What I learned/learnt from last week’s television” strand was a bad idea, since I didn’t learn enough, it turned out
- People really like having a bullet-pointed list of media news items each morning
- I can never get people’s names right. Actually, that’s not new
We’ve also launched The Carusometer, wide-eyed and blinking behind its dark-as-night sunglasses, onto an unsuspecting world. Will it ever be the same? Not by the time the “full season” Carusometer arrives, it won’t.
I’d like to say a great big thank you again to Anna, Holyhoses Rob, Jason, Lisa, Marie, Matt, Rosby, Scott, Stu and all those who lurkers who have stayed with me since year one. I’d also like to thank the new arrivals – Iko, Poly, Mark, espedair, Linda, cindylover1969, Fraser, Kev, Craig, Lesley, Jonathan, Phoenix – for making the blog even more fun this year, and for all the lurkers out there (you know who you are) for elevating my visitor stats to the point where I don’t feel humiliated every day. All I can do is try my best to keep you all entertained and hope you stick around.
Thanks for sticking with me!
TMINE
I’m back
I’m back from Norfolk. Ah Norfolk. Home of grey clouds and torrential rain blistering sunshine, beautiful broads and FRESH ASPARAGUS. Everywhere, as far as the eye can see, FRESH ASPARAGUS.
Anyway, I’ve spent the last week in a technology deprivation tank, to reduce potential stress from the encroachment of this modern life on my holiday. No Internet. No phone. No TV.
Yes. No TV.
Even an iPod fitted with a pair of speakers to provide music nearly hurled me over the edge. I was like some character in The Changes, ready to beat anything modern into dust using the nearest available ploughshare.
I did read some books. I’d almost forgotten how. For the curious, I burned my way through
- Cult TV: The Golden Age of ITC (review of that coming later in the week)
- Derren Brown: Tricks of the Mind (interesting, but he needs to learn about gerunds)
- Taking Liberties (good points, not very well made)
- Think Big, Act Small: How America’s Best Performing Companies Keep the Start-up Spirit Alive (a bit like work, I admit)
So I haven’t watched a thing, not even Doctor Who. I’ll be getting round to rectifying that over the next day or so. And over the next week, I have all manner of shiny things to do: I even have a new plan for now somewhat lazy Carusometer. Fingers crossed, I might get some of them done.
And yes, I am the kind of guy who takes pictures of local television stations while I’m on holiday. Why do you ask?
Altogether now, “Live from Norwich, it’s The Sale of the Century!”…