House Wars!

House hunting comes around again, we saw two yesterday and four today. After yesterday, I was feeling much happier because we had found somewhere nice that wasn't too expensive or far away. Today we saw two more very nice houses and one of them managed to top yesterdays find. Now we have a dilemma, we have to decide which one to go with. We've been debating (arguing) about this since we got back and the split is almost 50:50 at the moment and no imminent signs of that swinging in any one direction either... Hopefully it will all be sorted by tomorrow though and we will finally have a house next year.

In other news, erm... well not much really. This evening I decided to give Spotify another try, I did consider it a while ago but never got round to using it properly, put off by the size of their music library - most of the songs seemed to be covers or karaoke versions (well not most but several of the songs you expect to be on their anyway). Then just as I started the download, I noticed that you had to sign up first - no problems there except my username had been taken! Now apart from eBay which I signed up to a long time ago - when you had to be 18 to have an account (I wasn't) - I have the same username for everything. Makes it easier for me and everyone else to remember and if I'm really bored one evening, I can Google myself and find out what I've been doing over the past years. It's actually quite scary how much of a trail you generate posting comments here and there and even more scary when you realise that that information is stuck up here in the cloud forever. Which makes me think again about why I started this blog, effectively my life for the past 112 and counting days has been documented online and I will never be able to reclaim that back from the cloud (within its lifetime anyway). Which poses another thought, how long will the internet (in this incarnation at least) last? We are planning now for the high speed networks in 2050 etc and yet who knows what will be possible then, would a person of today recognise the internet of 40 years in the future - at the rate technology is progressing at the moment, I don't think so. Perhaps these words will come back to haunt me then when I am in my early sixties - assuming I'm still alive (an even scarier though I won't be dwelling on).

Interesting TV spot this week, there seems to have been two references to the Many Worlds Theory, one in this week's FlashForward and another in yesterday's episode of Paradox. It just struck me as odd that they happened to mention the same theory in the same week - probably just a coincidence though... or is it?

On that subject, this week's episode of Paradox seemed a lot better than last week's. The pace was a bit faster and Christian is starting to cooperate with them, disobeying a direct order from his superiors by showing Rebecca the photo of Ben. I was convinced towards the end that he was going to be electrocuted and I'm still not sure why he wasn't. Assuming he only went over to that house because he saw Rebecca's car then it is highly unlikely that he would have been there otherwise and even if he had, the likelihood of him going through the same effort to force open the shed and then not see the live wires is very very slim. With the last set of pictures it was obvious that the event would have unfolded without any intervention from the team whereas this week, that boundary has been blurred. We don't yet know at what point in the timeline the pictures were captured because assuming they are from the future, if they are from a future where the team never see any pictures, then I can't understand how this weeks events could have unfolded. On the other hand, if they are taken from the future based on the timeline as it stands when the pictures are received, then the events are unfolding knowing that the team have the last set of clues. This means that pictures are showing a future knowing that the team will be investigating it - although they can't yet have the pictures of the event in the latest set of pictures because they haven't got them yet and hence they can still change the future with the knowledge they gain from following the trail of the pictures.

Don't worry if you didn't follow any of that last bit, I only just about managed it with several long pauses in between writing sentences to get my head around what I was trying to write. Time travel is one sure fire way of getting me hooked onto a program - as long as it's written well mind. The main thing is that the rules haven't quite been formalised as to what is and isn't possible. Theoretically it is supposed to be possible and yet because no one has done it yet, it remains exactly that, a theory. Therefore, for the mean time, we can continue to bend rules and play with peoples heads until their brain hurts from trying to comprehend what is happening. Most of us can deal with simple things like a normal Dr Who episode but sometimes they go off the rails a bit and start introducing things like the paradox machine to disable the TARDIS or the DVD eeggs episode (Blink), and while some prefer to base the rules entirely in fiction, some try and base it in science which can often make it even more confusing.