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I quite liked Doctor Who ? as a kid ( Tom Baker era), but really didn't have the slightest interest in the recent revived series. I thought however that I'd give spin off Torchwood a go, the first two episodes of which aired back to back last night on BBC3 . So this wasn’t exactly the greatest piece of TV or even the greatest piece of Sci-Fi ever but thoroughly entertaining for A Sunday night none-the-less The most interesting thing though was how beautiful the production had made the city of Cardiff look.

I've been meaning to comment on this for a while but, frankly I had better things to do! Browzar a newly released web browser allows you to "search and surf the web without leaving any visible trace on the computer you are using." apparently its a kind of a Winston 'The Wolf' Wolfe for web browsing. OR SO IT IS CLAIMED!!! On its launch some of the press go very excited - exhalting the merits of the claims made by the Browzar marketing effort, as did much of the blogosphere, faithfully republishing their stories without reference or critique as is so often the case. I suspect many were swayed by the fact that Ajaz Ahmed 'founder' of Freeserve is behind the venture, indeed Techcrunch UK (in one of the better researched stories) almost admitted as much: "As one of the UK's better known and most successful entrepreneurs who have to think he has got a cunning plan in mind" (sic) . Then over the next few days some people actually took ...

So, not much posted here for a while - yes I admit it I've been seeing other blogs - but they meant nothing, really. Yes well, weird times recently - Working in the Internet/communications industry right now is, er ... interesting. Especially if you are attached to a Telco. I never joined a Telco, I never asked to be part of a monstrous corporation with all the inherent arse and elbow confusion issues. I was acquired! Plucked from dot com bliss (oh, those rose tinted retro-spectacles) and initiated into the heady world of process and procedure, power games and politics and all the other apparently essential corporate accoutrements which generally distract from the effort of actually doing something worthwhile. As the Telco industry goes through its biggest evolution/revolution since, well .. ever, turmoil abounds, my attention has been elsewhere and this blog neglected. The symptoms of the industry wide sea change are all too evident. Where as talk of IP technology and threats fr...