Seeing Dots

I have managed to get quite a lot of work done today and as a result of which I am now seeing red and blue dots all over the place. This was the first proper attempt at a prototype for a teaching tool and looking back over the coding that went into it, even if it was my first attempt at actionscript is frankly unacceptable. I think I started with around about 500 or so lines of code and I am now down to perhaps 300 and that includes all of the extra functionality that it has been given today.

Other than that there isn't a lot to report. I've been doing quite well with the holiday blogging so far but can see the end is fast approaching and I will soon be running out of things to say other than "I did some work". Tonights only highlight was Jonathan Ross who had an amazing set of guests on his show this evening. I am quite looking forward to the new Nanny McPhee film since the first one was so good, I have been following Professor Brian Cox's new series - Wonders of the Solar System with great interest and who doesn't like seeing people playing with liquid nitrogen. Finally, and perhaps best of all, Matt Smith, the new Doctor. No mention of the things that happen in episode one but strangely we did get to see some of a much later episode; go figure. We do however, now have a date for the episode, 3rd April 2010, Easter Saturday - which was kind of when I expected it to air but it has now been officially confirmed in the trailer.

Despite the fact that some people will have almost immediately dismissed him as being inferior in comparison to David Tennant, I think there is a really good chance that he will be different enough to make the role his own. From what I've seen of the various trailer and snippets, he is quite an odd character but still full of the wonderful bouncy energy that gave the relaunch of the classic series a much needed spark. It might take a while to get used to him though but I'm sure if I went back and looked at some of David's early episodes, they wouldn't be nearly as good as the later ones because he had time to adjust to the role and essentially, become the character.