Timeshift, yippee

Well it's been a strange time of late; huge passions and hopes and quiet revelations. But enough of that; back with the getting-life-on-track thing. And first with the getting-tv-at-the-right-time thing too. Now I'm not stupid, I know i'm not stupid, but I do have a strange attitude to the flashing box in the corner. If I read the tv schedules I'm either in despair at the rubbish on and the fact I just missed something I'd have liked to watch, or make plans to watch something specially (classic line: "sorry I can't talk but Torchwood is on") and mostly miss it altogether. Hwsgo has a box thingy that records programs easily, of which I'm most jealous... or at least jealous until I can find a workman to come round and point my TV aerial in the right direction for receiving channel 5 without the permanent snowstorm special effect. But there's hope: I've also found bbc iplayer, which wonderfully has just allowed me to watch this week's episode of Dr Who curled up in bed with my laptop (I do like David Tennant as the Doctor but not in *that* way, okay) well after the event. I shall be looking for similar... Oooh, oooh: Five Download. Back issues of CSI *and* pre-screening copies too: heaven! Not so excited about Channel 4 downloads, although Dispatches, Scrapheap Challenge and How to Look Good Naked (any help is very welcome in that department) may have something there. And ITV catchup? What's on ITV again? Oh gawd, I've just re-read the order I put the channels into, and I've finally turned into a Guardian reader...

Oh, and timeshifting. I had this with my video recorder back in the -ahem dark ages before the internet took off- I keep forgetting that I have control of the recording. Do silly things like open up another page whilst it runs in the background. But at least there won't be any advertising breaks for me to run to the bathroom in. Honestly, I sometimes wonder if the brain that can dissect part of the universe and make sense of it is inhabiting the same head as the fool that does that sort of thing...