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• The Faster Payments Service goes live today. I've been working with some aspects of this for a while - I'm expecting an interesting week...

• Sydney Pollack has died. As mentioned, Elaine and I went to see Made of Honour on Sunday night, which features him as the hero's father. I know he had been fighting cancer for a while but still, you don't really expect to see people onscreen in a new film, then read their obituary just two days later...

Right. Off to work now.

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This evening I have mostly been phoning people and watching The Supersizers Go... Restoration with Elaine and jambon_gris. Both of them commented that it was strangely reminiscent of Whitby.

Booze, more booze, elaborate costumes and a lack of vegetables. Y'know, they may have a point.

It's also very watchable and quite funny.

[On a different note, I'm mildly annoyed that iPlayer doesn't seem to include Greek - I'm not entirely surprised, as it doesn't include many of the US imports (although it does have Mad Men), but I was a little bit curious about it and wanted to see an episode or two...]

Statement of intent...

...not entirely unrelated to the last post.

I'm aiming to have my TV aerial actually fixed (well, ok, replaced....) before Sunday 8th June. I'd quite like to watch something that isn't a blur without resorting to iPlayer...

Bonus points for "pleading the Francis"...

From Lying in The Gutters -

"I understand that Neil Gaiman has been approached to write for the popular TV series "Doctor Who," for broadcast in 2010."

If true, full marks to Steven Moffat for making the offer.  If Rob Shearman's coming back too... well, I won't be complaining about that, either. Dalek is still the best Dalek story that the new series has managed so far.

(If you don't get the context for "pleading the Francis", btw, it's a reference to House of Cards - which is very definitely worth watching...)