Hmm.. the new semagic client includes photo builder support. not quite out of beta yet.

Random Scotto Factoid – I love old Detective shows, especially The Rockford Files and Columbo. I’m also a fan of the Prisoner TV series.

Patrick McGoohan has been in more than a couple of Columbo episodes. What’s more, he wrote, produced and directed a bunch, too. He was excellent in all of them. He almost always plays the same sort of person he was in the Prisoner / Danger Man series… too clever to a fault, but since he was the villain of every episode, of course, he got what was coming to him. I’m really happy that it’s being released on DVD, and even more delighted that episodes pop up on cable so often that owning the set is not required to watch it once or twice a week regularly.

All of the McGoohan Eps – (Some are TV movies, made after the series proper stopped.)

• Murder with Too Many Notes (2000)
• Ashes to Ashes (1998)
• Agenda for Murder (1990)
• Last Salute to the Commodore (1976)
• Identity Crisis (1975)
• By Dawn’s Early Light (1974)

Funny, I think he’s the most frequent villain actor on the show. I like the fact that Columbo has a basset, too.

Random Peter Falk factoid – His right eye was surgically removed at the age of three, because of cancer. Once when he was playing in a Little League game, the umpire called him out. Falk thought that he was safe. He pulled his glass eye out of its socket and handed it to the umpire, telling him, “Here, I think you might need this.”

New discworld book at the end of this month – Going Postal. I figure it’ll be in paperback inside of six months.

When you talk to a mirror, you’re not always talking to yourself.

Modern-day slavery

Brazil abolished slavery in 1888. Earlier this year, however, the government acknowledged to the United Nations that at least 25,000 Brazilians work under ”conditions analogous to slavery.” The top anti-slavery official in Brasilia, the capital, puts the number of modern slaves at 50,000.

Continue reading 6892 – TV & slavery… →

Hmm.. the new semagic client includes photo builder support. not quite out of beta yet.

Random Scotto Factoid – I love old Detective shows, especially The Rockford Files and Columbo. I’m also a fan of the Prisoner TV series.

Patrick McGoohan has been in more than a couple of Columbo episodes. What’s more, he wrote, produced and directed a bunch, too. He was excellent in all of them. He almost always plays the same sort of person he was in the Prisoner / Danger Man series… too clever to a fault, but since he was the villain of every episode, of course, he got what was coming to him. I’m really happy that it’s being released on DVD, and even more delighted that episodes pop up on cable so often that owning the set is not required to watch it once or twice a week regularly.

All of the McGoohan Eps – (Some are TV movies, made after the series proper stopped.)

• Murder with Too Many Notes (2000)
• Ashes to Ashes (1998)
• Agenda for Murder (1990)
• Last Salute to the Commodore (1976)
• Identity Crisis (1975)
• By Dawn’s Early Light (1974)

Funny, I think he’s the most frequent villain actor on the show. I like the fact that Columbo has a basset, too.

Random Peter Falk factoid – His right eye was surgically removed at the age of three, because of cancer. Once when he was playing in a Little League game, the umpire called him out. Falk thought that he was safe. He pulled his glass eye out of its socket and handed it to the umpire, telling him, “Here, I think you might need this.”

New discworld book at the end of this month – Going Postal. I figure it’ll be in paperback inside of six months.

When you talk to a mirror, you’re not always talking to yourself.

Modern-day slavery

Brazil abolished slavery in 1888. Earlier this year, however, the government acknowledged to the United Nations that at least 25,000 Brazilians work under ”conditions analogous to slavery.” The top anti-slavery official in Brasilia, the capital, puts the number of modern slaves at 50,000.

Continue reading 6892 – TV & slavery… →