Oooh, my weblog's been migrated! I have a new funky looking (funky in a good way, I never use it to mean anything else but people keep checking) screen here. It's nice. It's blue. Mmmmmmm.

Thought I'd better blog because I won't be around tonight, in all likelihood. I spent ages drawings a grid onto a plan this morning. I was trying to work out how many metres some 'areas of archaeological interest' measured, so that I can decide where trenches ought to be dug, you see. We're only supposed to dig 3% of the site. And it's all theoretical, in case you were wondering, it won't actually happen. I just have to decide how much to machine and how much to dig by hand...

Anyway, I'll do some more of that after lunch.

In other news, NTL did acknowledge that their mail system isn't working properly. They posted the server information on Monday, though, and it hadn't been working for a while before that. Strange but true.

ntl Home - All Packages - Mail Service

ntl:Home Internet customers using the ntlworld mail service may be experiencing intermittent problems accessing the service, this is because of a technical fault on one of our mail storage servers.

Our engineers are aware of this issue and working on a resolution.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

Bah, apologies mean nothing, I want my mail!!!

Ethan Hawke was in Alias on Monday. It was very cool, again. Yaay for Alias. :)

And guess what I did last night? I went to see Raiders of the Lost Ark at the cinema! Not many people went to see it, which was strange. I mean, it only cost £3 (normally tickets cost £5.20 or something), and it's a great film. Isn't it? They put it on in the smallest screen, and it wasn't full up. Still, by telling people I knew I managed to get a group of 12 together, so... obviously my friends have good taste. ;)

The only down side was that the print was a bit tatty. This is understandable, since the film's been around since 1981, but I wasn't expecting it to be so bad. I've seen It's a Wonderful Life and Blade Runner at the cinema, but those must have been newer prints. The Blade Runner print was early 90's, I think, because it was the one done by the "Blade Runner Partnership", or whatever they're called - the directors cut version, not the voiceover version. Anyway, those prints looked fine. Raiders had some problems.

It was very crackly in places, and some parts had weird green line/blob type things. But what was weirder was that in places it jumped sections of the film. It must have been too damaged, so they just snipped bits out. The most noticeable thing was when they were running from the about to explode plane, and then the plane was a smoking hulk. No explosion. So sad. In a way, though, this made it more exciting. Gave it a sense of history. Maybe I'm reading too much into this. But it's not like the people watching hadn't seen the film before. ;)

I always like the way you can see the separating glass in the scenes in the "Well of Souls". Where you can see the snakes' reflections. Hee... Classic.

I know they didn't really advertise it, but people just turning up to watch anything were choosing things like Anger Management over Raiders... which I found odd. I'll have to keep an eye out for other Flashback showings. Mr Random's local cinema showed stuff like Ghostbusters as well. Now that would be fun.

Hmm, I really should go and eat lunch.

And do some archaeology. ;)

I have been mostly.... WATCHING (CINEMA): raiders of the lost ark / READING: run baby run (nicky cruz); sting (wensley clarkson)

posted by Fiery Fred @ 1:35 PM