Screen burn

I've been stacking up the reviews to write here and not getting round to them, so I might as well make use of a lull to get it all out of my head.

About, oh, 2 weeks or so ago I suppose, I went to see the Matrix Revolutions ( and it wasn't very good )

Changing style completely, at a party I had many moons ago (possibly last new year) someone left a videotape marked "Totoro". I asked in a desultory fashion at the pub but no-one claimed it so it's been sitting on my video shelf waiting for me to watch it ever since. Then I had a weird dream in which I did watch it and it contained a home video of someone murdering someone else (although you couldn't see the murderers face). It was all very traumatic and I got lots of hassle from the police because I couldn't remember when I got the video. So I thought I'd better watch it, you know, just to check. Fortunatly, it was much more prosaic content. ( My neighbour Totoro and Papa Panda )

And, last but definitely not least, the West Wing. I always thought that the West Wing sounded really interesting, but I missed the start, and I decided that I didn't want to try to pick it up part way through so up until now I haven't seen it. coalescent, my trusty supplier of good TV, lent me the DVDs of the first series which Alex and I have been watching in chunks over the past week or so. We're now just over half way through ( and it's bloody brilliant )

Fortunatly, when I do run out, I've got 24 and 2 seasons of B5 borrowed from my brother. Should keep me going for a while.

Finally!

Well, after a wasted holiday and 2 days of waiting for it to be delivered to work, it turns out that Zen aren't going to be able to deliver my router after all - there's a problem with the chipset apparently. They said I could either have the next model up for the same price, delivery tomorrow or cancel. I decided that I was fed up and cycled over to PC world to pick one up (cheaper too) and cancelled the other one. So now I can get it all set up tonight - Alex and I managed to get bargin wireless PCMCIA cards at the weekend so we're all ready to go :) I'm planning to make a complaint to Zen though - at the very least I want some free days to compensate for not being able to use my conection until this evening.

Wireless

Well, it's working. I'm not entirely wireless, because I've got the power cord plugged in, but it works :) Well, I haven't managed to get the static IP addresses working yet, but still. I'm on the internet in double quick time :) And I've used this new found power to upload my France 2003 photos. I'm pretty proud of these but I'm going to have to get Dad to go through and identify the wildlife because I can't remember what half of it is :) Although I'm pretty sure that that is a hummingbird hawkmoth.