Marcia Cross on Murder She Wrote

While getting my weekdaily fix of Jessica Fletcher I noticed a pre Desperate Housewives appearance by Marcia Cross.
According to idmb this was 1992.

Aaanyway...

BBC's (Beta) Multiplatform iPlayer Downloader

I've tried the Beta BBC iPlayer AIR app (which you can find out about here). It allows UK people (or those with proxy servers) to download those iPlayer files via an Adobe air app.

This the Mac OS is are being drawn into the BBC fold. Platform agnostic is the way to go. Web apps, Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight (is Silverlight available on Linux?.

A nice idea as I was sometimes having problems streaming. Alas not much good to me as my poor G5 PowerPC can't really keep up and the video is laggy (their specs suggest Intel Macs only). I hear there is some programme found here that can download files which you can play in quicktime - so don't have to use the air app to play the files, haven't tried it yet.

I guess it works for Linux too? I don't know, hope so.

A dull post. Doh.

The 4400 Season 4 Episode 6 and Jesus Christ

Interesting that two series I'm currently watching (see previous post) deal with Christ like figures. Jordan Collier and John from Cincinnati, Both J.C. hmmmmm?

I said I was getting a bit bored by the 4400, but this latest episode has good things again. The reasons why I liked it are returning.

Will the series continue in this lovely uncertain way where you can be sure of nothing, where people can't even be sure who they are?

See, A film maker of hammy B-movie type flicks seems to have the ability to reveal all the worlds conspiracies, except he mysteriously gets snapped up by Hollywood and then recants all his earlier film making as made up fantasy.
A cabal of influential people including the Pope, this series' version of Bill Gates and perhaps one of our protagonists Tom the NTAC agent, are perhaps inhabited by forces from the future. The inhabitors leave behind a mark behind the ear, a result of surgical procedures.

So many questions. Is the head of NTAC one of the cabal set to "destroy" the 4400? How will Jordan bring paradise to Earth? Will Tom (as prophesied) end up taking promicin to counteract his having been interfered with? Who are these forces that took the 4400 in the first place? And who are those who have sent back this cabal to stop them, and what are they so afraid of? Is Jordan and starting to look like the good guy, is there coming a definite black and white in a show where everything was once grey?

It's all feeling very X-Filesian.

Though I still find the pace of the show too fast for its story, I am enjoying it again. Well, this episode at least.

Cog 0.06 and John From Cincinnati

New Cog has a shiny new user interface, Last.fm scrobbling support, gapless playback, a new drawer from which to browse a folder (configurable), configurable shortcuts that work when you don't even have Cog in focus and Front row remote controller support. And there are other things too. It's just fantastic. I have wanted something like this. a lightweight player for a few tracks, as an alternative for times when you don't want to use the behemoth that iTunes has become (it's taking up like 100+ MB of my RAM now).

As an aside, have been watching and enjoying John from Cincinnati. A New HBO series featuring a surfing community and superstar surfer family, an intriguing stranger who seems to be able to give other people abilities (e.g. healing, levitation), humour, a cast a ponderous characters, a very definite sense of place a feeling that something is happening - is building. I am interested.

Review here from LA weekly.

TV on the Internet

A good link - TV links.
I've been not surfing these past few days and instead have been watching TV shows online with the help of this aggregator. Some of the episodes are disappearing fast, especially the ones on the Daily Motion servers. The stuff on Veoh seems to be working OK so far for me.

Sliders is something I've been watching and is more enjoyable than I remember it. The tenets of the Sliders gang (in its various permutations) seem to be that Friendship and "being there" for your mates is the most important thing in life, as well as the oft repeated "there's more to life than happiness and contentment" idea. And it is interesting how often Wade (one of the characters from the first few series) needs rescuing. Also there are more non-white characters in Sliders than in any TV series (US) that I've seen before; characters who are black or chinese not because their race is part of the plot, their race is incidental, it's refreshing. (In the episode in which America is ruled by monarchy, the king and queen of The USA are Black.)