Exciting news: Red Dwarf is getting a new series! Despite Back to Earth not living up to series I-VI I’m excited anyway.

I spent last weekend updating all my Firefoxes to 3.5. My laptop and Firefox Portable were on v3 already, so it was just a case of clicking the button and updating a couple of my add-ons manually. The netbook was a different story…

The trouble with it is that Acer made some programs dependent on Firefox 2 and disabled the check for updates button, so I hadn’t bothered updating. It was faster than my old computer, but it had got to the stage where it was really slow, specially in Gmail where my typing was ahead of what was appearing on the screen. So I found some instructions on the internet about how to install Firefox 3 alongside v2. So I copied Firefox files on the netbook so I could make sure to get back to the old version and followed the instructions.

I briefly had both versions open before I restarted, which made all my old Firefox menus and icons open v3. Which, because it wasn’t installed over the top of the old version meant that it didn’t have my profile. The instructions said that it was easy to get the old version back, but didn’t say how. After spending ages searching the internet and trying things I gave up and set up the new version of Firefox.

Which was all fine except that whenever I opened it it opened up four tabs, which wasn’t what I wanted. I assumed this was a problem with Tab Mix Plus restoring things. A week later I found this was because I’d accidentally set my home page to be all four tabs, which it didn’t even occur to me to do…

It’s worked out ok in the end because 3.5 is much faster, nothing seems to be broken, and I have the Penguin Racing game that’s on the Asus Eee on my netbook. Not that I can play it because it moves, but it’ll be there for future usage…

I’ve also watched lots of new things on TV that all seems to be American. But how exciting is Friday evenings going to look with SJA, HIGFNY and Armstrong and Miller?

Flash Forward: I should have taken the fact that it’s on Channel 5 and my PVR randomly not taping it as a sign not to bother. It sounded interesting, despite the TV guide claiming it could be the new Lost (I didn’t like Lost). It wasn’t that exciting, but the main trouble was that they were incapable of keeping the camera still. The worst bit was when they spent several minutes going round and round. I didn’t get to the end of the first episode and it made me so dizzy I still felt crap the next day. Funnily enough I didn’t bother with the second episode…

Dollhouse: I quite liked the sound of it and it turns out it’s really interesting. I’m five episodes in and am amazed that I’ve liked them all so far. Even the continuing storyline, which I wasn’t too sure about at the start.

True Blood: It looked quite interesting when I found out early on in the episode that it involved vampires living openly among humans. Sadly, though, it also looked like at least two of the main characters have a variety of American Southern accent that I just can’t take seriously or listen to for long periods of time. I reached the point where I just couldn’t listen to it any more that night, never mind for three months. I do have less tolerance for American series at the moment, I think because I’m not that short of things to watch.

Stargate Universe: Will be henceforth known as Universe, using the same pattern as Atlantis. I wasn’t sure about it at first, but I really liked next Tusday’s episode. I think watching Access All Areas helped because it introduced me to the main characters, most of whom I hadn’t managed to work out. Robert Carlyle’s character is definitely interesting because you just can’t tell what side he’s on. I can definitely see the series as a whole changing a lot as it goes on.

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