Gary

I just logged into my LJTalk account. I don't use it but it's great to see Frank here. I'm still not using this blog though :p.

I've moved blogs to this one! I figured I'd have all my blogs on the same site. I shall still read my friends blogs from here though.

Umm... well that was fun.

I have been tagged, as all the cool kids call it, by drsordid to do this meme.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag five people.

The continue statement is similar to break, but instead of exiting a loop entirely, continue tells JavaScript to bypass the rest of the statements in the loop block and begin a new iteration of the loop.

That's from Using JavaScript which doesn't actually belong to me. It's also only one sentence but then it's also a paragraph and the rest of the book would send you to sleep so lets just leave it at that, m'kay.

Apparently I should tag people but since I don't believe in doing this if you want to be tagged then go right ahead and pretend it was from me.

I've been using a lot of Google's Services recently. They seem to have a lot of good idea and though, sometimes, their implementations can be a bit iffy they often hit the mark. One thing that I strangely like about the service (and I really do mean strangely like rather than, say, hate) is the Google Ads that you get for your GMail. It's such fun seeing what crazy crap will be advertised based on the parser grabbing the content of your mail :D. I had an advert for a (I presume) kids TV program called The Wiggles based on a conversation about wiggling while dancing. Ah such fun.

Anyway I wrote, some time ago now, a script (well not really it's in Java but it's so short I'd be ashamed to call it a program) to grab favourites from Flickr and add them to a directory for rotating in your background images. I've been meaning to talk about it and upload it at some stage and since I don't have an Application Development blog then I figure I'll probably post it here at some stage. Not sure if anyone who reads my blog will be interested but I figure it will be indexed and someone who is interested might come across it.

I haven't looked at LiveJournal in months so if I've missed anything significant in my friend's posts I'm sorry. It's unlikely that I'll catch up. Anyway I might actually make a proper post here one day. For friends that don't post friends only I'll probably subscribe to the feeds of. For those that do I'll try and keep up this time with posts (until I work out how to authenticate in RSS).

It's been a while since I've played a board game so I was looking forward to the BGoD we played on Friday. It was Twlight Imperium III, aka The Big Spaceship Game (^©purplesparkler), which was good fun though took a bit to get into and ended very quickly. The 4 player game feels strange given you have all the event thing cards. Anyway I'd love to give it another go at some stage :). I'd like to also try Arkham Horror at some stage though I'm not convinced that a board game can capture horror.

Maybe I'm too interested in what services Google has to offer but does anyone have an Orkut account? What is it? Is it exciting?

Well though it hasn't been declared as a planet (yet). The recent discovery of an object larger than Pluto (PDF) has been of great interest. Of course they have been talking of the object for a while but the confirmation of its size gives some weight to validate it and invigorates that curiosity of space I've always had. I expect they will classify it as a planet; rather than demoting Pluto to a large asteroid. I wonder if they'll stick with Xena or go with another name... UB313 has a sort of Aliens feel to it :).

Also; this strangely makes me want to play Traveler again.

I've been holding back from posting as I felt that my first non-dance related post should be significant in some way; a sort of return to old times that would herald a return of the posts that many knew and loved. Then I realised that I never made those posts and therefore I could just start with some garbage instead.

I cancelled my cable box subscription a month and a bit back. I haven't watched TV at all and I've found I don't really miss it. Generally a bit of my day was taken up channel surfing and there are better things to spend my time on (even if that better thing really is just playing computer games). This isn't to say that I don't watch TV at all; I have DVDs I've been watching and I've recently thoroughly enjoyed watching the Band of Brothers mini-series (the cinematography in it puts a lot of films to shame). I'm also looking forward to getting the next season of the Battlestar Galactica TV series when it comes out on DVD. I pondered buying a freeview box with PVR as well since I might tape programs that I can then watch at a later date. However I'm not sure whether this would result in me taping a big bunch of stuff that I really have little interest in watching but watch anyway because I have the ability to watch it at a time that suits me. I have refrained, for now, from purchasing such a bit of kit.

I've also been to see a lot of films recently. At times it feels like pretty much all the films that came out during the run up to Christmas and just as many films post-Christmas holidays. Starting around October (when the fab Serenity came out) I just ended up at the cinema once or twice a week. I did really enjoy King Kong which surprised me a little. The big surprise in recent time was probably Kiss Kiss Bang Bang which proved really witty and a lot better than I was expecting. I was disappointed in Jarhead to the degree that I wish I had just stuck with the fantastic trailer that it had. Underworld: Evolution was only saved by throwing popcorn at the person I went to go see it with. Finally I was recently disappointed by Memoirs of a Geisha; it failed to really do anything though it did look quite pretty. Anyway I did go see a lot more films recently but it was never my intention to turn my blog into a film review. If you want amusing film reviews I whole-heartedly recommend Mark Kermode's Film Review; I hear it is also available on this radio thing... whatever that is.

Right well; that's decided. I'm moving all my dance related blogging to Blogger. It's going to take me absolutely ages to transfer all my previous posts across but I will do that (along with changing the layout and such). That leaves this blog for everything else like talking about life... well when life isn't in some way connected to dancing. So not a whole lot here then. I'll lose things like the Mood button. I suppose I can just post my mood though. I do ever so much enjoy creating new blogs :D.

I shall make tonight my first new post there.