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Recently this blog has been attracting a lot of spam and Akismet doesn’t seem to be keeping up with the deluge. I’ve decided to disable comments at the moment due to my own lack of activity here.

I am intending to take up blogging again at some point in the near future but for the moment I have a lot to focus on and, quite frankly, I don’t have the energy to come and moderate 30 or so spam comments every day, not to mention the other 15 or so daily spam comments that actually make it onto the blog.

Once I start regularly blogging again sometime in the next few months I will obviously re-enable comments and hopefully Akismet will be working with the efficiency it used to.

I’ve just found Sanctuary, “The First Broadcast Caliber (sic) Online Sci-Fi Series” and it looks like it could be a decent little series, especially considering some of the names involved. Amanda Tapping of Stargate fame not only stars in Sanctuary but is also Executive Producer, and there are a few members of the Stargate: Atlantis team in the cast too.

After watching the trailer and some of the fairly poor quality free version of the first ‘webisode’ I decided that I should just buy the upcoming episodes - at just over £1.80 per episode (£1.60 if you buy the four episode bundle) I figured I’ve spent more money on worse products in my time.

Although the first episode seemed a little ‘bitty’ and could have probably done with some better editing I’m definitely going to be watching the next few episodes to see how it pans out. I’m not going to drop any spoilers but there are some quite tasty hooks in between the character introductions that will make you curious for more.

Which Programming Language are You?

First try, no cheating :)

The Christmas season for me this year has, so far, been a complete non-event. I’m struggling to find that “Christmas Spirit” stuff that I’ve had in abundance in previous years (I’m guessing Whiskey doesn’t quite count).

I’ve been trying to decide what it is that’s changed between this year and last. This time last year I had regressed to a little kid and was excited to be going out and getting presents for the family, helping with the food shopping ready for the day itself and generally being “Christmas-y”.

This year, the scenario is utterly different. Every time I hear a carol or one of the accursed tunes that they play to death every year I want to throttle someone and I’m overwhelmed by a complete lack of interest in Christmas Day.

Personally, I think it’s the crass commercialism that has tainted me this year. It’s been present for many years, but this year it’s really sunk in. Oh well, maybe I won’t be such a cynic next year.

I never quite realised how much I depended on the Internet for communication, entertainment and information before my internet connection at home went down the pan.

Now I’m back up and running with a tasty ADSL2 connection (running at about 5Mb) and I’m over the moon. Never before has a simple light made anyone happier - the router’s “I’m-synced-with-the-line-and-connected” light. Yes, I know… such a technical term.

It’s hard to believe that these images are vector art and not actual photos.