Holy crap! We just watched the season finale of The Closer more or less in real-time, not wanting to wait for TiVo to spool up. It’s not just a cliff-hanger, it’s a heart-stopper. It amazes me how an ordinary TV cop drama can make viewers care so much… or maybe that’s just good drama, as TNT likes to tout. And good characterization, and good writing, and good plotting, and good direction, and good special effects, and so on. Dammit, they’d better start polishing up a new Emmy, or three.
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I recently took another look for a Second Life IM client. There’s supposed to be something called SLim that’s official, but I bypassed it for something called AjaxLife, which I’d previously tried back when it was a light Web interface that just barely ran on my iPhone. It runs well on a normal computer, though. Now there’s a much better iPhone interface, which allows the user to log in, IM friends, and chat locally at whatever your default login location is. You can’t move your AV, so you should be sure you’re somewhere safe and not in the way. But…