I would just like to announce that I both hate and love Linux (Linpus Lite Linux specifically) with equal measure. I won’t go into why I’m using Linux just yet, I will say that whenever Linux does something wonderful and clever that impresses my inner geek, it then proceeds to punch me squarely in the face and refuses to do any simple task I need it to do.

I’ll persevere, even to the point where I’ll try another flavour of Linux such as Ubuntu, but unfortunately it seems that you need the patience of a saint to make Linux usable. Unfortunately, I’m no saint.

It was just over a year ago that my previous PC decided to shuffle off this mortal coil in an unspectacular cloud of non-smoke. I was reminded of this fact only last Thursday night when my PC decided to do exactly the same all over again.

This time around there are no stories of crazy shenanigans involving mobile phones and weird error messages, this time around my PC just died, suddenly and properly. I’m not sure of the exact cause behind its untimely demise, only that there was an error with the motherboard that forced the machine to lock-up whenever the processor temperate reached 30 degrees Celsius. Again, the only cure this was to build a new machine, which is why I’m typing this from my brand-spangley new Intel quad-core super-deluxe PC with time travel and lottery number prediction system*.

As before, what I’m trying to say is this – my computer broke and I’ve fixed it. Let the updates commence!

*this is, in fact, a lie!

News of the new Star Trek movie is common knowledge to anybody with an internet connection. For those who aren’t online (and therefore not reading this, yes, I know) or pay no interest in such matters, there is a new Star Trek movie being released next year. Staring an all new cast as the classic 60’s characters, the movie will reinvent the Star Trek franchise in a not-to-dissimilar fashion to the recent Battlestar Galactica television series.

Images from the movie have been kept tightly under wraps, with only a few select pictures of the cast being released earlier this year. This changed today when a slew of stills from the movie were posted on the sci-fi website io9.

So, before any lawyers are called and the pictures are removed from the io9 website, I thought I’d better grab them and post them here.

The World of Me unexclusively presents the latest images from the new Star Trek movie:

The crew of the Enterprise

The bridge of the starship Enterprise

Spock

I actually wrote this entry a few weeks ago, I just completely forgot to post it.

In a small, unassuming Dorset country park, five thousand mud-spattered music-lovers gathered in a field to share three days of bad weather, good music and unhealthy amounts of alcohol and debauchery.

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