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I heard that BBC was broadcasting the new Dr Who series over in the UK. I was a big, big fan of Dr Who as a kid. I’ve seen four episodes of the new series so far and what can I say – it’s bloody awesome! It’s got lots and lots of British humour which I just can’t get enough of. I can’t wait to see the next one. Oh, having Billie Piper co-star is also a help.

Stuff seems to be finally trickling in from the many people who have been hoarding the pictures on their cameras. This is one of them taken in front of a Giant Sequoia tree in Yosemite national park late last year that I’ve stitched together. You can see us standing there way, way down the bottom.

Big tree

I’m also in the process of moving photos from stupid Webshots to flickr so you’ll see my flickr bar on the right of this page being updated as I find time.

I’ve been invited to a hat party in a couple of weeks and I immediately thought “cork hat”. I couldn’t be bothered making one myself so I looked around for one on the net. I happened to stumble across this site: http://www.stickcricket.com/game.php and I’ve been playing it for the past 1/2 hour (at work). After working a lot of hours in the past week, I don’t care if anyone sees me playing this.

I’ve been reading a heck of a lot of stuff lately and even in the past day my views on things have swung around greatly because I haven’t digested stuff properly. I was thinking last night about my last post and why I said I wouldn’t comment on politics, even if I thought it was important. I now think that’s a stupid idea, so to that end I *will* post the odd political story/comment *but only* if I feel it’s important enough. I’m leaving the previous post as it is though, just to show how quickly my point of view can swing around when I haven’t thought stuff through enough 🙂

Part of what helped me change my mind was a story I received from one of my friends (thanks Nav!), regarding the upcoming oil crisis: http://www.energybulletin.net/4856.html (it was originally posted on the RollingStone website, but for some reason their link is currently down).

The reason why I found this story particularly interesting was because here where I live in Florida, there seems to be an excess of waste. There is a useless public transport system, there are massive SUVs all over the place. There might be some sort of recycling system here in Broward County but I haven’t seen any evidence of one. There certainly isn’t at my apartment complex – unless they sort through the rubbish later on and pick out what’s recyclable. But I just get the feeling that the lifestyle over here isn’t sustainable, what with the mega highways stretching all over the place and just the incredible number of cars everywhere. I have never seen so much development going on either. The suburbs continue to creep outwards at rates I haven’t seen before.

Anyway, there are a couple of other stories off the linked website that make for interesting reading too.

UPDATE: Some other views and more info is linked from Boing Boing below.
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/13/peak_oil_article_in_.html