So the new Survivors remake is underway and, well, tolerable so far - not sure it really adds much to the original but it's watchable I suppose. So what's next for exciting new sci-fi drama on the BBC?

Well it's obvious! Sky have nabbed the rights to Blakes 7 already, so why not remake the one other sci-fi show the BBC ever did, Day of the Triffids! Oh yes, they're commissioning yet another remake from their limited back catalogue of proven sci-fi hits. It'll only be the fourth TV version they done of the John Wyndham novel, not counting another four radio versions.

Never mind that it partly retells the same story as Survivors, since it's another story of civillisation coming to an end one quiet Monday evening, and the few stragglers left behind to cope without it (only with added attack-veg).

After winning a public vote for Best Dramatic Performance at this year's television awards, David Tennant has announced that the Christmas special and next year's four special episiodes will be the last adventures of the 10th Doctor.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7698539.stm

It's been great fun, and for me personally (and a lot of others here, I'm sure), 10 will always be my Doctor.

Happy Birthday to my brilliant husband Tim!

He's not really 40 of course, just a mere 34, a youth really. I mean, he regularly gets asked for ID (ok, so maybe I made that bit up to make him feel better)but yay it's his birthday, complete with iPhone and dalek birthday cake - what more could a modern day 34 year old want?

Happy Birthday Timmie! x

2008 is far too depressing, so helpfully Google - in honour of their 10th birthday - have opened up their oldest search index, and they're letting everyone search the web in 2001.

The web was a lot more interesting in 2001, not least because sites like this had a bit of a buzz about them and weren't just dead, rotting HTML hulks resting idly at the bottom of the internet sea. Witness a 2001 search on "boinng" - http://www.google.com/search2001/search?hl=en&q=boinng&start=0&sa=N - tantalising, isn't it..

It's a bad time to be unemployed, but cheer up - the job of a lifetime is about to be advertised. Yes, twelve lucky people are about to employed to eat pies.

A pie company (up north somewhere) wants to employ a panel of pie tasters, to sample their latest produce and ensure its pie-like goodness. Presumably there are regular tea breaks, a good long lunch break, and a pie chart to complete at the end of the day, to confirm that you have, in fact, eaten all the pies.

Okay, so it's voluntary and not really a paid job at all - but a man can dream, damn you. More pie news at the PIE.

I'd like to join everyone else in posting some completely worthless drivel about it being the end of the world today, ha ha ha, because they're switching on that big doughnut thing under Switzerland and it's completely hilarious.

I do this in the full understanding that actually they're only spinning the wheels on the LHC today, and they won't actually be colliding anything, opening any black holes, or doing anything remotely universe-stopping for at least another fortnight or so, if not far longer, thus rendering the whole fascination with today's event completely pointless.

Big bang FTW!

For some reason someone is bothering to bring back Rentaghost and Worzel Gummidge. It's not that I have anything against these programmes although I never watched Rentaghost and didn't really like Worzel Gummidge, I'm just not sure what the point is? I mean, the nation isn't exactly crying out for Rentaghost and Worzel Gummidge. Gordon Brown isn't sat at 10 Downing Street thinking if only there was some way to bring back Rentaghost and Worzel Gummidge - now that'll solve the credit crunch.

One word to the people who have brought the rights, Youtube!

Google's motto is "don't be evil". It's a mantra that's served them quite well over the last ten years, as they've moved at a meteoric rate from being mere upstarts in the search engine business (then dominated by the likes of Yahoo, Lycos, and Altavista) into the nearest thing the internet has to a God. Of course, the bigger they get, the harder it is for them to not be seen as evil by default. Power corrupts, after all - and the idea of a single company controlling, however benevolently, so much of what we do online seems inherently... creepy. They already direct most people to most parts of the internet, they've taken on email, advertising, mapping, and later this year they'll start to infiltrate mobile phones with their Android operating system (a competitor to the likes of Symbian, Windows Mobile, and of course the Iphone). These days, every new inch of Google growth tends to set a few more alarm bells ringing. Imagine if Google bought Facebook - the sales of tin foil hats would double overnight.

Remember Diary-X, the ill-fated journalling site? Back in the day it had many thousands of users, all enjoying a slightly more enlightened diary experience than could be found on the likes of blogger and elsewhere - but then one day in 2006, Stephen Deken, DX's webmaster, had the horrible job of announcing that everything had been lost, in one catastrophic disk crash.

It's not new news, but just in case anyone missed it, it seems that the lord God almighty has switched to Firefox. Although God was previously believed to be browser neutral, evidence from the hubble telescope suggests that Firefox has now been installed as His browser of choice. A star previously known as V838 Monocerotis has been positively identified as the Firefox desktop icon (see pic), leading observers to question what other desktop features may be present in the universe.