::Voodoo-People::

The current trend of so called Social networking at the moment is to be linked in constantly and able to provide such juicy details as (And I quote)

“going to eat a banana, read eclipse, and then go to sleep.” - http://www.twitter.com/frenchigirl

Now this may seem pointless to most people and indeed to myself but there is something incredibly addictive about spying on people’s activities and indeed allowing yourself to be spyed on.

So in order to keep up with this trend various clients have been released for the Blackberry and up until this morning I was attempting to us Twitterberry.  Now unfortuantely around about 2 weeks ago this decided that it was no longer going to download other people’s statuses leaving me tweetless for my journey home on the train.

So in response to this I removed the application and have installed Ubertwitter on my Blackberry 8820, which although is still only in Beta, seems to be a very tidy app.  This app also has support for location support, which works in the same way google maps finds your location on your mobile phone.

So now I can happily go back to watching the daily soap drama that is life from the discomfort of a First Great Western train.

And for those of you that are interested, here I am on Twitter http://twitter.com/Gary_Black

Now you may have noticed that Happiness@Gunpoint have been camping on Voodoo-People for some time, but they overstayed their welcome so I have kicked them out.

Happiness@Gunpoint

They now have their own place over at www.happinessatgunpoint.co.uk and soon their presence will be removed from our forums here and migrated to their very own space.  Be sure to update any bookmarks etc that you may have.

Sooooo the new Red Dwarf: Back to Earth…..

Perhaps I had built it up for myself too much, or perhaps I was younger when I watched the original series, or perhaps I missed the point entirely, but after watching the 3rd part on Sunday evening I can only say I was disappointed.

Each part of the episode just felt like an extended trailer for the most part and I was constantly waiting for it to get going, at which point the credits rolled.

All the ingredients were there, the original cast (Minus Holly/Hilly ) and a classic script parodying yet another popular film (Bladerunner), so where did it all go wrong?

1. Previous episodes were filmed in front of a studio audience, this unfortunately was not, most likely due to the amount of CGI that was used, lets face it the audience wouldn’t know what was going on.

2. Why is Rimmer a hologram again and where are the rest of the crew? Not that I was a big fan of when they were brought back in the first place.

3. Damn adverts, seriously this was a fatal flaw, the whole episode was too short as it was and Dave adding in their adverts seriously annoyed me.

4. CGI.  One of the things that I really enjoyed from the early episodes was how the whole thing was done on a small budget and how amazing a little creativity could pull off some amazing results.

Now I would love them to go and make another couple of series, but if this is a taster of what’s to come I don’t think I’d enjoy them particularly well.  So Doug if your listening go back to the basics of 3 men and an android struggling to survive in deep space with nothing to entertain them over than a couple of games of Junior Angler.