rebus greenblat ra ra ra..

Fresh from a truly 'fun' day at the Internet Archive yesterday (which largely consisted of me trying to remove the MSBlaster worm from lots of machines, then taking time out to watch a removable hard drive fry 120gb of our data, mm), I'm trying to chill out at home and recover.

So, very oddly, after praising the Rebus crime books by Ian Rankin in a recent post, and saying I'd heard there was a TV adaptation, it coincidentally premiered on BBC America on Monday. If you have a couple of hours spare and happen to get the channel, go hence to your TiVo - it's smart, gritty stuff, and there's not an Oxford college to be seen.

On a complete different note, got a mail-out from the very talented Rodney Greenblat (New York-based artist/creator of Parappa The Rapper, Um Jammer Lammy, and friends), indicating a new version of his website, Whimsyload.com. There's also a shop with some great stuff, which I bet you could get signed if you begged - a Rammy doll (Lammy's black+white photocopied hell-based alter-ego from the classic Playstation game? Like, dude, whoa.)

Oh, and I don't think I ever mentioned this, plus most of you are savvy, but web browser of choice? Go go Mozilla - infinitely nicer than, ahem, Internet Explorer, thanks to tabbed browsing, popup-blocking, nice plug-ins like Newsmonster, and so on and so forth. I've only made the switch in the past 6 months or so, being a Windows user and having IE shoved in my face a lot, but it makes my day just that bit sunnier.