Wandering through E-Space

D.W.Q.M.: Steven: "Well, what does that do?" the First Doctor: "That is the dematerializing control. And that over yonder is the horizontal hold. Up there is the scanner, those are the doors, that is a chair with a panda on it. Sheer poetry my dear boy. Now please, stop bothering me." I just got back from Minnesota a couple of hours ago. What's that I hear? Nothing. Silence, pure, blissful silence. All nice and quiet. The throbbing in my head has disappeared. ...so why am I suddenly feeling homesick? There is a tiny brown spot on my jeans where Mellon decided to rub her chocolate covered face earlier this afternoon. Awwww..... *sniff*

I absolutely LOVE this house!!!

D.W.Q.M.: "I had no problem with space stuff. I've seen things you wouldn't believe!" -Sarah Jane Smith (from the Tenth Doctor story, School Reunion ). I know it's supposed to be a kids show-but who cares? I think it's perfectly normal for adults to enjoy a kids show. ;) A sonic screwdriver disguised as lipstick? Oh, I so want one of those!!!!!! Sarah Jane rocks. :) (yay, sarah jane!) :-D

D.W.Q.M.: "We still have our homicidial computer to deal with." -the Sixth Doctor Okay, go figure-I decide that I might actually give beta a try. I had read reports that beta version blogs were slower to load, but SJA.tv loaded fine both at work and at home, so I thought I would be fine. However, when logging into blogger from home, my invitation is no longer there. Well, then!! Perhaps that is a sign. I've also noticed that there are more complaints about blogger beta from users publishing via their own ftp server then there were earlier. Right now, I'm leaning towards waiting until I absolutely have to switch, since they eventually want to switch everyone over. For now, I'm going to keep Wandering, the Idiot's Lantern , and Ro Knits on Blogger, and request an invite to the beta blogger for SJA.tv , and merge my accounts when I have to switch over the others. Silly Blogger, why do you have to make things so complicated?!?! :p I have other things I need to

D.W.Q.M.: "You've done up the place. Don't like it."-the Second Doctor (from the Five Doctors) Hmm...well, I'm debating on switching my blogs over to Blogger Beta. One of the blogs I write for, Sarah-Jane.tv has already switched, and I can't access it until I either switch over completely to beta, or ask jackharkness to send me another invite so I can log in using my google account. I don't think I'll have a problem with my blogspot blogs-but I am worried about switching Wandering... over, since I publish that using an external ftp server. I've heard of people who haven't had a problem, and those who have. It looks like I'll eventually have to switch it all over, but until then, I have a few questions for the folks at Blogger. Go figure-this happens just as I'm about to go on vacation! If I do decide to switch over completely, I'll post a note using the old Blogger, along with an alternative blog just in case the transition doesn

D.W.Q.M.: Duke Juliano: "There's this man in Florence claims that by arranging ground glasses in a certain order, it's possible to see the moon and stars as large as your hand." Marco: "Is that a good thing?" (from the Fourth Doctor story, the Masque of Madragora) AstroAlert: A Solar Minimum Surprise - Major Solar Flares Okay, I thought about just summing this up, but I won't do it a bit of justice, so this is a copy of the email alert I got from Cary Oler at the Solar Terrestrial Dispatch : MAJOR X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE ALERT The Sun has produced a solar minimum surprise! At 10:35 UTC on 5 December, a new solar region now beginning to rotate around the eastern solar limb produced a powerful class X9.0 solar flare. The region in question appears to be quite large and was relatively quiet until today's significant outburst. Such powerful outbursts are not uncommon for the solar minimum in which we currently reside. Indeed, it is known that large and pote

D.W.Q.M.: Sgt. Benton: "What are we going to do now?" the Second Doctor: "Keep it confused, feed it with useless information. I wonder if I have a television set handy?" ( author's note: This post can also be found at the Idiot's Lantern .) I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving! I'm sorry I missed a post last week-last weekend was rather crazy! ;) Series 2 (season 28) Fridays, 8pm EST on the SciFi Channel Current episode: 9. The Satan Pit , part 2 Previous episodes: 8. The Impossible Planet , part 1 7. The Idiot's Lantern 6. The Age of Steel , part 2 5. Rise of the Cybermen , part 1 4. The Girl in the Fireplace 3. School Reunion 2. Tooth and Claw 1. New Earth (9:30pm EDT) The Christmas Invasion (8:00pm EDT) Doctor Who on BBC7: Check out BBC7's Listen Again page to hear the 8th Doctor audios from Big Finish. Current epsiodes are available for one week after it originally airs. This week: Sunday, December 3rd: Invaders from Mars , part 3 Pr