WAR

For all those incensed by the approach of "Stephen Spielberg's War Of The Worlds" - you may be interested in "H G Wells' War Of The Worlds", which is apparently due out several months sooner. 

It has not been transposed to the 21st Century.
It does not feature Tom Cruise.
The Martian walkers have spiderly legs that WILL EAT YOU OMG.

ps am back from larp all is well.

Well I Never

Synchronicity:

I happened across a photo of the Teen Titans cast at marvwolfman.com and noted, hmm, Beast Boy is not unpleasing to the eye, I would like to know more^[1].  As I skimmed his filmography, I noticed one of the links had recently been visited.  What in the world, thought I, could that be?

Oh ... right, yeah.  Hee hee hee.

Also of interest on Marv's page is mention of Hannibal King, who is apparently a genuine Marvel Universe character and not pulled out of anyone's ass for the third Blade movie.  He also goes on a lot about how he's created everything good in comics in the last thirty years, which would be a lot more annoying if it weren't so true.

[1] Ref: Starship Troopers

Minor updates

1. Bought a processor and fan from eBay for low-powered Ilkley puter; turns out the new fan reacts exactly the same to power-on as the old one, ie sudden jerk, stop, no movement until power off, at which point it drifts loosely for a bit.  Have deduced that unless faulty fan has been sold to me it is probably a problem with the mothermainboard.  Does anyone know if it's possible that a broken processor might interfere with the mainboard's behaviour in this way (I didn't even bother with the new processor)?  Am thinking about buying a mainboard in ... or maybe just splashing out on a whole new system, they can't cost much at that spec or thereabouts.  Can probably re-use a lot of my old components and at least I'll know I have a MB/CPU/fan etc that work together.  Or, maybe I'll just wait until I have a new job, and get a laptop or something.
2. Government is giving me £500 of the wages I was owed by Delivered Solutions when they laid me off.  God bless National Insurance.
3. Tomorrow evening I cook for the Bolton mob.  I plan to make spaghetti bolognese.  I have no idea how much to buy to feed six.  It will be awesome.
4. Farscape: Peacekeeper Wars is on Sky One in 15 minutes. I will probably not watch it, as Alex is using the TV for documentaries and I've seen it already (without adverts). Hopefully this will not affect the ratings.

UPDATE: Watched PK Wars. Better than VCD, even with ad breaks. huzzah!