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The magic’s in the Milky Way

Alex — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:53:52 +0000

You may have noticed the retro Milky Way advert has reappeared on our screens, but I can’t be the only one to notice they’ve changed one line in the last verse.

It used to go:

He’s looking for a treat,
that’s fluffy and light,
because he knows it won’t spoilt his a-pe-tite…

This last line is now mysteriously missing, replaced with something along the lines of “want’s a snack that tastes just right”. I can only think that they’re not allowed to say that a Milky Way won’t spoil your appetite any more, bloody political correctness gone mad.

They should have just added a voice-over at the end, mortgage style: “Warning, eating Milky Ways between meals may affect your appetite.” Far more acceptable.

Updates

Alex — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:39:11 +0000

VLC media player has just had a major update but the new version has a fullscreen controller that is just plain annoying. In the old version once you went full screen there were no controls and it showed you the video. Now, for some reason, it simply blinks the annoying controls off and on. It also freezes randomly.

So much that I’ve dropped back to 0.8.6i so it just works. That’s what VLC was best known for after all.

Networking the PS3

Alex — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:48:25 +0000

I’ve been trying to get the PS3 to play videos off the network, so I can use that instead of the server, but there’s no way to browse a network for media files. Turns out you need to stream the video to the PS3 with a media server. After having problems with TVersity, it kept crashing trying to decode and encode the video, I tried Fuppes and it seems to be doing the job so far. There’s still a few files that don’t seem to want to play ball, but I think they just need a little tinkering.

Saves getting up though.

All hands on deck

Alex — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:31:51 +0000

So the new telly looks great. We went with a 32″ flat screen in the end, much easier to get up the stairs, I can tell you. Had to get a PS3 to go with it eally. We only got a 720 set in the end, I was looking at 37″ of 1080p greatness originally, but the Sony Bravia was on special offer and we couldn’t resist.

Then we get home to find a pipe in the bathroom has burst and is spewing water all over the bathroom. Fan-bloody-tastic! So now we’re waiting for the landlord to call back so we can sort out a plumber to come and fix it.

Snap, crackle and pop

Alex — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:49:02 +0000

Our TV finally gave up the ghost this morning. For the last few weeks it’s been flickering about a bit on the warm up, eventually sorting itself out after a few minutes use, but now it’s refusing to even power on. Bugger.

It does give me an excuse to get a nice hi def set though, although they’re still a little pricey. So much for the budget.

The thing is, is it worth picking up a PS3 while we’re at it. Would be a shame to have a nice new telly with nothing to watch on it…

ITV snooze

Alex — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 08:19:00 +0000

YouTube – jimmy shooting himself
For some reason this was on the ITV news last night. Not sure what the article was about as we were at the pub and the sound was off, but can only imagine they think guns are bad. I’d have thought that the fact they had the presence of mind to put the face mask on to protect his eyes says quite a lot.

Geek love

Alex — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:50:00 +0000

Not many posts so far this month, but not really had time. Toni is still going through SG1 and now the new series of Lost, BSG and South Park have all started it’s just such a busy life I lead. … Continue reading →

Groundhog day?

Alex — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:16:00 +0000

Damn, nearly a week since my last entry. Well, it’s been a busy week. Have been taking Toni through the Stargate, so to speak.

She got into Atlantis originally, and having just started I can see why, but it’s been my task this month o take her through SG-1 from season 1 onwards.

So far we’re up to Season 4, and have just watched Window of Opportunity, which by my reckoning is one of the best episodes ever. You just gotta love Teal’c in full golfing gear.

Anyway, other than that, not much going on, still waiting for the new series of Bsg, Lost and South Park, amongst others, to start on US TV, although it seems to be taking forever to get to October. At least we’ve got another 5 1/2 series of Stargate to get through until then.

Dirty girl

Alex — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 21:44:00 +0000

Oh Imogen, you dirty litlle cow. Nice Sex Tape luv! (Definitely NSFW)

Weekending

Alex — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:50:00 +0000

That was what I call a good weekend. Cheers to Drew for a great party, always a pleasure mate, and then after a relaxing Sunday I actually had a date. Lovely girl, although I ended up with pineapple in my panini… lol. Hope I didn’t scare her off, if you’re reading this, I hope you enjoyed it too.

I’m taking Toni through Stargate Atlantis at the moment, from the start, right up to date. That girl is sucking up SciFi like some kind of SciFi absorbing machine! And BSG is just round the corner too.

Back to work tomorrow though. Joy. Here’s to next weekend… Oh, that’s right, I’m working Sunday. Doh!