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Aug. 2nd, 2007

06:27 pm - New Blog

I've gone and got myself a new blog. Not a new, specific to this purpose, blog, like the St. Pixels one or the WriShug one. No a replacement for this one.

Why?

In the end because there are just a few formatting niggles I have with LiveJournal. I'm sure I could have resolved most of them if I'd been prepared to spend more time learning. But life is short and what I want to do isn't that complicated.

So my new blog, for those that are interested is here.

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Jul. 29th, 2007

09:35 pm - Heroes

So I've been watching Heroes. Having no life and an internet connection, I've watched nearly all of Heroes.

I just wanted to pause here (3 episodes to go) to post a couple of thoughts. Heroes is good, very good. It reminds me of first season Lost - lots of characters, plot-heavy, high production values. However much as I love Lost it is a shaggy dog story. Almost every time you get new information you get more questions than answers. Heroes appears to be going somewhere. I'll know in a couple of hours or so, but I hope that Heroes resists the temptation to spin out the story. They must've realised some time in the middle what a hit the show was and it must've been tempting to defer the climax. It's all been building to a show-down between Sylar and the others, an attempt to stop him exploding and destroying New York. I hope that plays out. Season 2 should be its own story. I could be wrong but if they try to stretch it out, keep Sylar alive, keep the same threat until next year, then it'll fall into the Lost trap.

I say have a proper ending, kill the bad guy and have a new story and a new bad guy for next time.

I hope they will.

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Jul. 23rd, 2007

07:13 pm - Hermione didn't die!

So I finished it. At around 7pm last night. No I didn't put it off that long, I started reading almost straight away after the last entry but M. rang me when I was nearly done. So we discussed where she was up to and favourite bits, possible theories about the end, though since I was nearly there that part of the 'discussion' consisted of M. asking me questions I wasn't allowed to answer. After we'd talked I finished the book.

First thing to say is that the 'slashdot guy' was lying.

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Jul. 22nd, 2007

01:32 pm - Why I'm not reading right now

I said I wasn't going to do this but... well you'll see why I did.

I'm on page 512 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows which has taken me a little over 12 hours in total. I'm averaging 41 pages/hour but it's a big hardback so the pages are bigger. I estimate I have about 2 1/4 hours of reading left. Despite what you may (or I would've) guessed I actually have been up since about 10:30 and I'm where I was in the book when I went to bed. I got up, messed around on the computer for a while, went out to the shop, came back, made lunch/breakfast and then decided, despite what I'd originally intended, to write my blog.

In other words I'm putting off reading the final 95 pages. The question is: why?

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Jul. 21st, 2007

01:48 pm - Distraction, Dilemma, Decision

I said a few days ago that I'd read a lot less because of a 'distraction' and that I'd tell you what it was later. So later is now.

You may be surprised to learn that I was never a particularly big Harry Potter fan. I gave up a couple of times on the early books. I started reading them again earlier this year because M. is a huge fan and it gave us something to discuss. So back in May I decided to pre-order Deathly Hallows from Amazon because I could save money that way. I imagined at the time that I'd be quite happy to read it a few days or weeks after it came out - not being such a huge fan.

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