Rock On...

Ok, so it's nearly a new year - 2008 to be exact. So, in keeping with new year resolutions, partying, career and financial planning (not to mention retail sales), I haved finally started to update the aesthetics of this blog. Well, ok, all I've done so far is remove the picture from the title (after realising it was probably copyright... oops!). Also, I've just noticed I've had aver 1100 visitors! I had no idea I was so loved. *cries*

Anyway, that's not the main point. The main point was this - are there any suggested improvements that you guys could make as to what could be... uh, improved? Ie: annoying colours, not working in certain browsers (safari excluded), layouts improved, etc. Or suggestions of things to add - visitor polling, petting zoo, scam emails, etc.

And, on a side note, are there any new years resolutions y'all making this year? Mine's to actually decided on a career. Probably won't happen, though. Although, it will hopefully be more successfull than the resolution I had to exercise and get fit - that was several years ago, now. Or, better yet, resolutions you've made that you knew you were never going to acheive? Meh, it's late, and I'm looking for some cheap humour!

This really is the last post before new year, so I'll catch you all in 2008!

Christmas Update

Christmas is in a few days, so this will be the last post for now, at least until after Christmas, possibly new year.

According to Einstein's laws of relativity, time is only relative to the observer. Ergo, I propose that I am not late in making this blog post, rather it is you the reader who is in a different moment of time. (Or did it have something to do with speed? I don't know, I didn't do that well in yr 12 physics...).

Anyway, this is all irrelevant. My tardiness is mostly due to work commitments, and a depression regarding the end of Firefly. Yes, I know it really finished up like 5 years ago, but I just watched it on DVD. In fact, I even went as far as to read it's wiki entry. I had no idea that Fox and Whedon loathed each other so much. Although, I did find it pretty funny that Whedon deliberately shot all his frames with characters deliberately to the far sides of the screen, just to force Fox to air it in widescreen.

Also, can someone explain to me the obsession with Facebook? What is it? Why are all the kids into it? Why do people keep asking me if I'm on it? Why do I keep making sentences into questions? I don't get it, really. It seems to me that you put a stack of personally identifying information onto the internet, to share with millions of strangers. What the point of that?

This whole exercise is pointless anyway, as I'm just filling in random stuff so I can say I made a post. Have a great christmas, and I'll catch you all with something a little more substantial next year.

High Definition may produce Low Demand

Ok, so Ten have finally released a schedule for 10HD (The new Ch 1 for digital). Burried deep into their forums, and posted by other users, of course. In fact, I only came across it because I stumbled into the press statement looking for something completely unrelated.

Anyway, at 30 hours, it falls well short of the claimed 50 it aspires to. In addition, the Sci-Fi Saturday doesn't exists (no surprise there). They have a similar thing called "Break Away Thursday" - doesn't exactly roll off the tongue as well, does it? While some moderately exciting viewing includes Battlestar Galactica, the 4400, and Smallville, I have to say I'm completely underwhelmed. What is the point of timeshifting "The Bold & The Beautiful" and "Ten News at Five" half and hour later? Wouldn't it make more sense for it to move forward an hour to 2 hours? And except for Thursday nights, all other primetime slots are simulcasts of SD channels?

I know that realistically, there is a bandwidth limitation to this stuff, but seriously, this is summer!!! At this stage, the only thing I would even consider watching listed in this week's guide is repeats of "Friends", "NCIS", and now Sci-Fi Thursday. Wouldn't it make more sense to put the best possible programming on during summer to get the viewers in? Especially with the busy shopping season, with people looking for those big screen TVs?

The only other thing to look forward too is the extra sport content to be added in February. Their current plan is: NASCAR (Awsome!), NFL (Ok, I guess), and the WORLD GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS. Yay, I can't wait. Golf - right up there in exciting sports viewing as snail racing and turtle boxing. Problem is, the sport will be on in the mornings, great work, considering only the people who actually go to work can afford the TV to make the most of the content.

Ten do at least promise to increase HD content "in the months ahead", to here's hoping that this is only just a start to what has the potential to be briliant alternative programming (Jericho, anyone?).

Here's the press release if anyone was after it.

Apologies....

Ok, so it's been a while. A long while. but I'm still alive (just).

To be perfectly honest I don't really have much to post. I could rave about Crysis, undoubtedly the most beautiful computer game in the world. By beautiful, I don't mean I have a satanic love for murdering North Korean soldiers. I'm refering to the scenery.

Or, I could mention how I was forced to undergo the torture that is Singstar at the work christmas party. Let it be known that I do not know any Madonna songs, nor do I have any interest in singing anything to do with getting my baby back. Baby, in this case, being male. Did I mention that my singing is analogous to a large gorilla after a large boulder has being drop on it's foot? And being attacked by a seagul?

Fortunately, the first time my name got drawn out of the hat, I was on a bathroom break. Given the laws of probability, I figured that I had gotten off, considering there was roughly 1 in 70 chance of me still having to undergo this painful "party game". Math failed me yet again.

And, for anyone interested, Metroid Prime 3 is awsome, but tiring on the arm. If you point the controller away from the screen, the camera will turn. This means that when your arm gets tired, you spend the entire time looking down. Still, it's a very cool game.

Oh, and I just found this tripod youtube vid in unpublished posts from months ago. Worth checking out...



That's all from me for now, and I'll catch you all later.