BBC – Doctor Who – News => Billie Is Back! Rose Tyler returns for Series Four. Following a series of unconfirmed reports across the media this morning, we’re delighted to officially confirm that Billie Piper will return as Rose Tyler in Series Four of Doctor Who. Anything you may read elsewhere about when, how or … Read more

You know, it amuses me no end to point out to Christians that the holiday they call Christmas is a huge hodge-podge of completely and utterly non-Christian traditions. (I love this site at this time of year – The History of Christmas.) In fact, the Church used to forbid opening the churches on “Christmas” because … Read more

Well, dear readers, this has been a busy week for me: My birthday (43rd), Thanksgiving (also my 43rd) and now Black Friday (my 32nd, if Wikipedia can be believed). (I’m a little miffed, Wikipedia doesn’t seem to have an entry for my birthday.) In any case, my birthday was quiet, but enjoyable. I got the … Read more

BBC Press Release => BBC Drama Productions acquires rights to develop 1970s series Survivors for BBC One BBC Drama Productions has acquired the rights from the Terry Nation Estate to develop the Seventies drama series Survivors, it was announced today by Jane Tranter, BBC Controller, Fiction. Set in the present day, the new series will … Read more

BBC News => Man-sized sea scorpion claw found 8 foot long, eyes of blue… well, ok, probably didn’t have blue eyes. Just for clarity of that BBC headline, the scorpion is man-sized, not the claw. The immense fossilised claw of a 2.5m-long (8ft) sea scorpion has been described by European researchers. The 390-million-year-old specimen was … Read more

The BBC has announced that this year’s Children in Need has taken in a record-breaking £19. That can’t be bad, can it? As previously reported, much like two years ago, this year’s Children in Need featured a special mini Doctor Who episode. Two years ago, the episode was a short post-regenerative sequence between David Tennant … Read more

I haven’t had much to post lately, so I thought I’d post something to complain on behalf of my neighbors down the street. Oh, they don’t know I’m complaining on their behalf, to be sure, this is just my civic mindedness kicking in. Personally, I subscribe to the eco-friendly concept of zeroscaping. Lawns are an … Read more

My daughter is in a sports club after school. Each month, they play a different game. Last month it was basketball. At the end of the month, they had a big game on Saturday. Actually, it was more of a very informal tournament. To my knowledge there were no winners, but several schools came together … Read more

Check out the gallery of pictures of the new Sontarans. Looks like another faithful updating of a classic old foe. BBC Sontaran Gallery Oh, and you read about them, too. Technorati Tags: Blog, Doctor Who, Dr Who

Plowing through the support forums, I can tell I’m not the only one having problems with this. I have about 8 e-mail addresses in Mail. 5 of them are IMAP (4 from hosted domains, 1 from .MAC) and 3 are POP accounts. Since the upgrade, there’s been a slow and steady wasting and now, finally, … Read more