Merlin
So, I’ve been watching Merlin and have come to quite like it. It’s a BBC Wales production which should have lessened the shock of seeing Torchwood‘s Gwen Cooper (Eve Myles) as a witch in the first episode. The story follows young Emrys growing up and coming to terms with his gift. He has to do all the impetuous things typical of the “young sorcerer muddling by” genre and keep everything secret since Uther has a closed mind concerning magic (having been burned in his earlier days) and has decreed it an act punishable by death. Merlin is the manservant of Arthur and gets to muck out the stables and other menial chores in between his saving everyone without their knowledge. Oddly, Arthur is much less irritating as a character than Merlin … probably not what they were going for. It’s also a bit annoying that they have made everything so entirely episodic that noone remembers anything that happend before (other than the constant annoyance of Nimue). In any case, I look forward to the next episode (BBC Saturdays).
Having languished long enough after it’s tragic death last year, the old powerbook g4 15 is no longer forlorn and left to decay in the closet. I went out and got parts and screwdrivers and such and went to work with trepidation. The only possible way I would have attempted this is the knowledge that it’s way out of AppleCare and … I couldn’t quite make it too incredibly much worse than it not turning on. Luckily t’was mainly the hard drive that was fried, but unlike SDRAM which just takes 4 screws and a shove in the slot, the HD needs a disembowelment and a pile’o’screws for resurrection (namely philips 1/4, 1/8, and a torx T6, and T8). I’m quite used to dealing with the innards of desktops and older laptops but this was a first operation on something like this. The 