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Well Israellycool and Hotair are reporting Israel has gone in.
If Israel is going in personally they better be willing to finish the job.
Of course the big news today is the selection of the 11th doctor Richard Grant. My wife’s first reaction is he isn’t very cute. More into on that here here here and here.
Interview with the new Doctor here. You will need the Proxy server stuff.
Tomorrow on BBC 1 a special edition of Dr. Who Confidential called The 10 doctors will be broadcast at 5:35 PM England time.
It will have to go a long way to be better than this Ten Doctors but according to Life Doctor Who and Conbom it might break some big news for fans:
There is a serious rumour circulating that during the Ten Doctors special on BBC1 on Saturday, they will be announcing the next actor to play the Doctor. I’m not one to fall for rumours, but it looks to me like this may have some backbone, after all, why show this special at prime-time on a Saturday evening, when its all just repeat footage?
Since the clock is ticking (15 months to the 2010 season) there isn’t a ton of time left for the pick.
My review of the 1950’s series The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2. is now up at Amazon.com here.
It looks like Microsoft has heard the cry of the Customer again and is extending the OEM period of windows XP through May 2009.
Microsoft system builder partners who’ve been feeling queasy about the impending Jan. 31, 2009, deadline for selling PCs with Windows XP pre-installed can now breathe a bit easier, as Microsoft is giving them a way to obtain XP licenses through distribution after the deadline.
In an e-mail to ChannelWeb, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed the existence of a flexible inventory program that will allow distributors to place their final orders for Windows XP OEM licenses by Jan. 31, 2009, and take delivery against those orders through May 30.
At Amazon Aric Annear has a theory why this is the case:
Some are speculating that Microsoft is extending this deadline to ease the overlap into the release of Windows 7, slated to drop in mid-2009, rather than risk losing Vista-averse customers in the downtime between XP’s demise and Windows 7’s arrival.
Of course if windows 7 is the dog Vista was then I might see my grandchildren buying XP systems.
Full disclosure: I am typing this on a Vista system that I “upgraded” from XP two years ago.
You know Microsoft actions concerning Windows XP remind me of the old Robin Williams live performance mocking Libya and the “line of death” back in the 80’s. Maybe he can modify it as Bill Gates with the a “deadline of death” skit.
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