Well, make you own mind up but as ever, it seems there are plenty of things no-one is acknowledging…
Take a look at this post on the EU Referendum site for information. The bottom line: a question as to whether the current government merely wants to introduce road toll charges to bolster the gulf in Gordon Brown’s expenditure.
I read a snippet about this US show a while back in a writing magazine so when I saw that the SCI-FI channel was showing the premiere this week I decided to check it out.
Now, the fact that it was on ‘SCI-FI’ was a little worrying. I assumed the only frequenters to that channel were Egg heads and trekkies etc. So I changed channel and drew the curtains…
The first two episodes showed promise and were in many ways a kind of amalgamation of all the recent super hero films of late (an indestructible girl, the boy who can fly, a man who gets visions of the future). Seperately no single story thread is remarkable but as a whole it potentially holds together. I say potentially as a lot will depend on how it develops from here.
By the end of the second episode there has been so much ‘borrowing’ from the heart of other ideas (the notion that these characters are evolutionary firsts is all too familiar for anyone who has seen an X-MEN film) my concern is that it has nothing much original to give.
It’s a NO1 show in the US at present but I wonder if the slight lack of originality will cause it to plummet in time. Or, perhaps it has plenty more cards up its sleeve and things haven’t got started in earnest yet. I hope the latter.
Catch ‘Heroes’ on SCI-FI, Mondays at 10pm. Read more about the show at the official site www.heroes-tv.com
By the way, the show creator, Tim Kring, was also the writer of 80’s movie ‘Teen Wolf Too’!
I recently needed to get a newsletter out to some of my past and existing customers and as OSX is my operating system of choice set about finding a suitable program. I wanted to send a ‘posh’ html mail for those that could receive it and after a while ‘googling’ I cam across this…
Newsletter by Pescado Software
The best bit about this program? It’s free. But be a good sport, use the ‘donate by Paypal’ button to at least send the man enough cash for a couple of beverages as this is a great little program.
If you’re running Tiger (OSX 10.4) you will need to run the app under ‘Rosetta’. Choose more info by right clicking the app icon and tick the ‘run under Rosetta’ option.
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