John Meredith's Blog

I am not the only person to think that Torchwood’s “Children of Earth” mini-series is up there with the best of Battlestar Galactica. The Guardian’s Daniel Martin thinks so, and heaps praise on the series. And rightly so. I have rarely seen science fiction encompass all aspects of drama, but CoE has a fair amount [...]

For the second day in a row, the shutters were down on the sandwich friges is Boots at University Hospital of Wales. I have grown quite accustomed to getting every 6th meal deal free and was very put out by not being able to claim one yesterday, the last day of the month. Just a [...]

I don’t know what everyone is getting het up about. Really….what do people expect TF2 to be? Some sort of intergalactic Shakespearean drama? I went to see it the other night and expected a few things: Robots. Big ones. Hitting each other. A straight forward narrative. A good laugh. What did I get? All three. [...]

At last! The pinnacle of rugby achievement…Wales are the IRB World Champions. Is this a dream? No. Wishful thinking? No. We haven’t hit WRC2011 yet. No. Wales have just won the IRB Sevens World Cup. I know one know about it. I was shocked when I read an erroneous report on the BBC based on [...]

I am just too busy being academic. See you in April… But Being Human ended well didn’t it?

At last I think BBC3′s vampire/werewolf/ghost story is coming of age – and only in the penultimate episode too! The impending war of the vampires that was touted in the original pilot seems to be taking off, and the “taking sides” angle has borne fruit. The only issue left is whether or not this is [...]

Wow. Just upgraded WordPress to 2.7.1. That was easy.

Terminator is one of my favourite films having seen it when I was about 12 and it scaring the bejesus out of me. T2 went one better in many ways and then things fragmented with T3. So it’s refreshing to see that the downward spiral may well be halted by the efforts of director McG [...]

I know it sounds a little over the top, but The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has changed my life. Never in a million years did I think that a film could have such an impact on me. It is a little hard to define in words the true scale of this as both a [...]

Now that I am writing up my dissertation, I am hitting the usual problems with good old M$ Word, that even Google has few answers for. Well I found out a damn fine way to add a PDF file to a Word document, but it relies on you having a copy of Microsoft OneNote. I [...]