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Daily Archives: Monday, 17th March 2008, 8:58pm
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
Funny, isn’t it? Web browser betas are like buses: you wait for ages, then two come along at once. Not only is Firefox building up to a new version, but quite remarkably, Microsoft are working on a new version of … Continue reading
Firefox 3 Beta 4
Firefox 3 should be released some time in the next couple of months. I’ve been playing with the recent betas on a Windows machine, where they’ve been very well behaved so far. So, I decided to bite the metaphorical bullet … Continue reading
The Making of Doctor Who (1972)
I mentioned in my review of The Sea Devils that the DVD included a complete book in PDF format. Well, I just had a look and I’m really happy about it! It’s called The Making of Doctor Who, and I … Continue reading
Doctor Who – Beneath the Surface
It’s become something of a tradition for the first Doctor Who DVD release each year to be a themed box set. We’ve had the set with the first stories, the set with the transition from Tom Baker to Peter Davision, … Continue reading
Doctor Who – Planet of Evil
Oh fun. This one, first shown in 1975, stars Tom Baker as the Doctor and Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith. This was the period in which the series was borrowing a lot from horror movies, but in this case … Continue reading
Ian McNabb – How We Live
Ooooh, this has been sitting on my pile of things to talk about for months. So long in fact, that my initial comments about it being only available from those nice Townsend Records people are no longer accurate. Yes, you … Continue reading
Doctor Who – Time Flight & Arc of Infinity
Yes, I’m way behind with my DVD reviews again, but I’ll make a start today, and see how far I get… This was a special double release of the end of the 1982 series and the beginning of the 1983 … Continue reading
More changes!
You know how it is when you start tweaking things, and then you can’t seem to stop? Well, I seem to be having one of those days today… Observant readers[1] will have noticed that the header at the top of … Continue reading
This is the last one!
As I mentioned last week, I’m turning off the email updates service I’ve been running here. If you subscribe to that, this is the last post you will be notified about. If you’d still like daily updates by email, you … Continue reading
Another small change
Up till now, anyone who reads this site through the RSS feed has been deprived. Quite shockingly, they’ve been able to read my reports, but the actual weight figures were hidden from their view unless they clicked through to read … Continue reading
