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QotD: What's in a Name?
How did you create your username for VOX? What influenced your decision?
Submitted by Strive2Be.
My username is just, well, my name.
I almost any web service I was too late to get "adam", but can normally grab "adders". With Vox, I was in early enough to grab Adam, and I was delighted to get it.
Review: The Tudors
![The Tudors: Complete BBC Series 1 [2007]](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/wp-content/772/2008/03/6a00d8341da3af53ef013486acea33970c-120pi-1.jpg "The Tudors: Complete BBC Series 1 [2007]")
So, I went up to Mum's last night, to surprise her for Mother's Day and cook her a roast. Afterwards we cracked open a bottle of red wine and indulged in several hours of watching The Tudors, which she recorded on her PVR months ago.
And my, it's fun.
OK, they've taken some fairly serious liberties with history. Time periods are compressed, and characters are conflated. People's ages are mixed around and, frankly, they're all a lot prettier than they were in real life.
And yet, the heart of the conflicts are spot on. The heady mix of politics and genuine faith that charged the discussions of the era are explored in a surprising amount of detail. And with gratuitous semi-nudity. What more can you ask for?
![Brokeback Mountain [2005]](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/wp-content/772/2008/03/6a00d8341da3af53ef013486acea60970c-320pi-1.jpg "Brokeback Mountain [2005]")
The Week So Far…
And its…interesting. It's an attempt to move video onwards from a pure publishing model, into the sort of conversational model you see in blogs. The key is making all the recording and encoding in-built into the web app, so that you just record and publish straight away. No uploading. No waiting. It could be very interesting.
And today, I pootled into central London to do a presentation to a bunch of people from recruitment agencies, to support our sales teams. It was not what you'd call a well-informed audience, at least on my subject. Less than 25% had ever read a blog, and less than 5% read them regularly. Sometimes I get frustrated with the slow pace of change at RBI, but today reminded me of just how far ahead we are sometimes…
Man & Iron Man
I haven't been excited by a superhero movies for years now - but this looks like a lot of fun. What a difference a great actor in the lead role makes:
Hidden Past
Tonight's the Night
I'm taking Lorna out tonight to celebrate her birthday.
We're off to the Peacock Theatre to see Tango por Dos.
News & Politics QotD: Drop Outs
Rudy Giuliani and John Edwards both recently dropped out of the primary race. Does this change how you'll vote?
No. Because I'm still British and I still live in the UK and I'm still getting US-specific QotDs...
