We’ve just watched the Lost season four finale. I’ll write something a bit more later in the week, but from my point of view, it was a pretty good episode, certainly an improvement over the end of season three. Perhaps the only moment that didn’t surprise me which was intended to was the final big reveal of who was in the coffin we’d first seen in the season three finale – yes it has taken them an entire year to get that answer out – as I’d already guessed who it was going to be. Perhaps that’s one of the changes with season four, that at least some of the pieces are finally starting to fit together…
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Time Capsule
I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned it before, but if you’ve got a Flickr account, Photojojo is running a great little free service called Photo Time Capsule. The concept is pretty simple, you configure it for a predefined time period, from one month up to two years (mine is set to the default of one year) and then twice a month it sends you an e-mail containing pictures from your Flickr stream that period of time ago. As an example, this month it has sent me firstly pictures of Jo and Drew’s wedding, secondly a mixed bag including Sophie being cute and the 2007 PCC Away Day, and thirdly the Black and White Evening at church. Certainly if you’ve got a Flickr account it is a great way to rediscover old pictures.
The End of the Line
So a few weeks after coming into office, midnight saw the high profile enactment of one of Boris Johnson’s election pledges, the banning of alcohol from all London public transport, the logic being that if you curb low level disorder it will help make steps towards curbing the bigger problem. There are needless to say a number of problems, in particular being that it will be the normal staff who will have to enforce the ban – however before the ban came in, there was an internet organised final party, mainly taking place on the Circle Line – and for many it proved the point.
If you looked at the news pictures earlier on, it was all good-natured enough, with people dressing up for the occasion, indeed some people dressed for a black tie occasion sipping cocktails. One participant, a banker was quoted as saying:
“I’ve come along with a bottle of Champagne because I want to show that you can drink responsibly on the Tube and not cause trouble.â€?
Unfortunately, that isn’t the way it turned out, and by the end of the night six stations had had to be closed and four tube drivers, three other staff members and two police officers had been assaulted and there had been seventeen arrests, proving to many who have to use the system precisely why drink should be banned.
Needless to say, whether the ban will actually be enforceable, or whether it will be widely flouted remains to be seen – this will probably be one of the first and most visible big tests of Boris Johnson as mayor. Equally whether the ban makes late night travel on the London Underground any more attractive remains to be seen – certainly if we’re coming back late from something in London we’ll tend to opt for a taxi to get us to the mainline train at Waterloo rather than using the Underground, although since more often than not we’re rushing for one of the hourly fast trains in those situations, we might well still opt for the taxi anyway!
“Party on the tube” and “Ride home for one party goer” originally uploaded by kujunu.