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Voxy Stuff and Family Stuff
Oooh. New look Vox...
Some nice new features, including the ability to import posts from other systems and media from its existing url. That should be handy.
In other news, I'm back in Suffolk for the day, taking Mum for her latest dose of chemotherapy.
I'm really, really looking forward to having a complete week in the office next week.
QotD: This Song Makes Me Festive
What song gives you the most holiday cheer?
Submitted by Roxy.
Christmas With The Devil, which I first heard on Spinal Tap's seminal Break Like The Wind tour at the Royal Albert Hall.
It's also on the album of the same name.
By a spooky co-incidence, it's also being used as the theme for the BBC's Xmas trailer.
It's also on the album of the same name.
By a spooky co-incidence, it's also being used as the theme for the BBC's Xmas trailer.
QotD: Holiday Shopping
When do you start your holiday shopping?
Submitted by Murphy.
As late as humanly possible. I'm a bit rubbish at this sort of thing, and tend to everything in one afternoon's retail binge.
QotD: Childhood Frights
What were you afraid of as a child that seems silly to you now?
Submitted by navelgazer.
![Tron [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/wp-content/772/2006/11/6a00d8341da3af53ef0133f3896e35970b-200pi-1.jpg "Tron [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC)")
There was a single scene in Tron that terrified me as a 10 year old when I first saw it. The hero of the movie is "shot" with a laser and digitised into the computer. I've no idea why it scared me so much, but I refused to have a computer in my bedroom, until getting my first Mac at university left me no choice.
While that particular fear is pretty much gone, I still get seriously freaked out by what you might call "cyber-horror", where human bodies are partially replaced by mechanical parts. The cyber-conversion scenes in the most recent series of Doctor Who really freaked me out, for example, as did "cyberwoman" from Torchwood.
While that particular fear is pretty much gone, I still get seriously freaked out by what you might call "cyber-horror", where human bodies are partially replaced by mechanical parts. The cyber-conversion scenes in the most recent series of Doctor Who really freaked me out, for example, as did "cyberwoman" from Torchwood.
