Our cambridge doctor who and other scifi livejournal community is shortlived

The autons couldn't do it, but something has. As gacked from several people, Eccleston's resigned.

Awwww :(

OTOH, at least there'll be one good series, and no chance of a slow decline. And quite brave of him. But such a shame *wants him in his leather jacket*!

And I can imagine someone else being good in the role, though I'm never any good at imagining who. But they must be running out of incarnations nearly[1]!

[1] I remember a scathing review of an old attempt at a computer game: they objected that he had only five lives and they all looked the same, and that he just shot things with no attempt to be creative or humane :)

Magic pen changed my life!

I've recently made a bit of an effort to become organised, to augment my (A) being getting up at 9.00ish[1], (B) wasting less or indeed no time at work (C) slowly achieving my todo list[2] (D) thinking about where my life should go[3] (E) spodding hopefully more interestingly and (F) the aforementioned personality transplant :)

Fear my being a man now, my son! :)

I've redone my email folders a bit, so they're more hierarchical, and separated out the pooh and tolkien folders into 'chat' and 'committee' and 'announcements'. nakedtoes and sonicdrift can be squeeful and flattered that they've joined the elect club of people who have a folder of their own[4] :) Tim and Justin *would* but since *most* of the emails from one are also to the other, they are for the moment still co-existing in "timjustin" though for some equality I reversed the order.

I do, in fact, want email with categories, so something can be in both 'tim' AND 'justin'. It'd also be useful for emails from Foo AND poohsoc, or from Foo AND about house-finding, or whatever. But I like having IMAP. Can anyone advise me what system I should be using? Ideally I'd like email available from a server by both imap and webmail, and sortable into categories. I won't go much further, since I think that's still currently unacheivable. Gmail? Any other service? Download to outlook? Write an imap wrapper for gmail?

I've bought a shiny USB pen drive thingy[5] and moved all my personal files from home and work onto it. It's great having my todo list there where-ever I go, which has been a sticking point in my having one before. I've also reorganises a bit so I can find stuff; now my main personal folders are: fic_mine; fic_other's; gakked (quotes, downloaded pics, etc.); life (finance, etc.); poetry (not large, but enough to clutter up spod); pooh (mainly minutes); roleplaying; tech (stored settings, encrypted passwords, etc); spod (partially finished posts, articles, emails, poetry (but not any more), thoughts, plans, todos, etc).

[1] Today I woke up at 8.50 and got up without prompting by alarm, but I was *that* sanguine about going to work :) Yesterday I did some geek shopping first (see para 3) and woke up at 8.00, like I do at Xmas :)
[2] Bike very soon, promise. And shortly car, maybe.
[3] I think for satisfaction I need to acheived something, but aren't sure if this should be 'well paid job' or 'family' or something more innovative.
[4] Later I'm going to spod an amusing list of pseudo-definitions of friends, of which this is one :)
[5] There was one that was a wireless connector AND a pen drive. Isn't that so cool? If not useful to me :)

Another present: a DVD recorder

My hard drive is big enough for all my data at the moment. I mainly want to record TV onto something more portable than videotapes, though creating backups of existing DVDs would be good. And how come I don't know this stuff? :) Should I:

(a) Get a "DVD recorder" that just does VCR stuff? And if so, which? Lite-on? Pros: hopefully simple. Cons: £150. Less versatile.
(b) Get an external DVD writer for my laptop. My laptop should be able to do the thinking/planning part of a VCR, but I don't know if that's at all practical.
(c) Get a VCR and a separate external DVD writer. ???

What does everyone else do?