Day: June 22, 2005

Doctor Who’s oldest enemy… now a fan?!

D'Arque Bishop

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/news/drwho/2005/06/21/20120.shtml

BBC Chairman fan of new Doctor Who series.

Nearly seven million said goodbye to Doctor Who this weekend, including the show’s most surprising new fan… Michael Grade, the man who axed Doctor Who in the 80s.

News has rearched the Doctor Who website that the BBC Chairman was so moved about the new series that he sent an email of praise to Director General Mark Thompson…

This is not easy to write Рas you will readily understand. But here goes ̴ congratulations to all involved in Dr Who: to whoever commissioned it, those who executed it, the writers, the cast, the publicity folk that promoted it, the schedulers and of course the late Sydney Newman who invented the whole thing.

I truly enjoyed it and watched it every week with my six and half year old son who is now a fan.

A classy, popular triumph for people of all ages and all backgrounds – real value for money for our licence fee payers.

PS never dreamed I would ever write this. I must be going soft!”

At the end of another day…

D'Arque Bishop

Well, at least today I’ve gotten some stuff accomplished.

It didn’t bode well for me to begin with. I had actually intended to get my car’s state inspection done this morning, but after getting to the dealership and turning in my keys and all, they came over to tell me that the inspection machine had crashed and that they needed to get someone from the state to come over and take a look at it. Great. Then when I actually got to the office, they had to cut power to the building for an hour or so in order to get a fuse replaced. So, with no power, I had absolutely nothing to do.

Still, I ended up being productive. I got our cabling people scheduled to come out and finish hooking up the upstairs and downstairs extensions to the phone system either later this week or early next week. In addition, I got a network switch installed into a rack for the engineering people and our CEO (for when they move down here). I just need to get a quantity of patch cords to go from the patch panel to the switch, and they’ll be good to go. I’ll probably pick them up on Friday from Fry’s on the way in to work (after getting my car inspected).

As for tonight, I’ll probably end up making a few purchases I had been planning on for a while. I’ll probably end up getting “The Gallifrey Chronicles” (the last of the BBC’s Doctor Who Eighth Doctor series) and the soundtrack to The Lost Boys from Amazon. I’ll also probably pick up “The Least Worst of Type O Negative” and the soundtrack to Flash Gordon from the iTunes Music Store. The TON album is actually about $7.50 cheaper via iTMS than Amazon… ye gods. Oh, well. I might also pick up another DVD or two. I haven’t decided yet… heh.

Anyway, time for me to wind down what I’m doing, and possibly get ready to get home. Fun fun…