December 2004 Archives
Somehow a while ago I ended up signing up for a mailing list for promoting the upcoming Spielburg version of War of the Worlds. At the start of this month they launched the web site. Well, a holding page for the web site anyway. There's currently a graphic there showing a three fingered hand wrapped in red weed, clutching the Earth. This leads me to make the following observations:
- The Martians in Wells' novel had tentacles, whereas this looks more like the hands sported by the aliens in the '53 film.
- The red weed is, of course, from the novel and doesn't appear in the '53 film.
I'm still interested to know if they're going to use the Jeff Wayne soundtrack, as apparently he owns the film/TV rights...
So bear with me. :) I came down with some sort of flu last Wednesday and have been suffering ever since.
We've now got ADSL connected, so once the wireless network is set up, I'll be able to use it from this computer. Xtra, apparently, is happy enough to supply the service, but they won't provide helpdesk support for it. This is typical of Xtra. Hopefully there won't be any problems with it.
Yesterday it was announced that Prime TV have picked up the license to screen Doctor Who in New Zealand. This has had mixed reactions as only about 75% of the population can actually get Prime, and in some places the signal is marginal. It's still preferable to Sky getting it, as Sky is pay TV and even less of the population has it.
Hopefully very soon now I'll be getting broadband. Because this is with a different ISP, the web space my LiveJournal icons and stuff is going to go bye bye, so I will probably move them to my main tetrap.com domain. Of course, the fun part will be when my email address changes, and I have to track down every online service I've given my old one to and give them the new one. A bit of a hassle, but hopefully worth it...
Now if only I could stop slacking on BlogShares and do some more work on my web page. :)
Just finished watching the last episode of Farscape season 4. You could probably hear the cry of anguish as it finished. Now I just have to wait until the subsequent mini-series either screens here or comes out on DVD...
NZ government seems to be very close to voting the civil union bill into law. This will allow same-sex couples to enter into a marriage-like civil union. It's about time.
It's becoming obvious that at some point I'm going to need to upgrade to Window XP... I attempted to use Yahoo! Chat today in FireFox. This required downloading Java support, which I started doing, until the Java installer announced it was only suitable for newer versions of Windows, and then stalled. So I guess I'll be using IE to access Java stuff...
