Question for Londoners on Flist or Lurking

Apparently London is attempting to help NYC's MTA :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/23/new-york-london-subway-tube

Question to all the Londoners reading this and on my flist? How successful has the Oyster System been? And do you agree with the praises lauded in this article? Curious minds want to know.

[Poll #1727767]

Off-topic, just in case you wondered if it is possible to manipulate statistics? I've got proof, apparently there are software products that aid in data and statistical manipulation. Why do it yourself, when your computer can do it for you? (Google - SAS Systems - Statistical Manipulation or Data Manipulation.)

Vamp Diaries is Baaack!! And...with Mommies.

Tempted to say mummies - but I've been reading a book about mummies, not that kind of mummy. The dead dried up kind. Needless to say? This show is faster paced and more entertaining than my book.

Say what you will about The Vampire Diaries (or what I like to call Vamp Diaries - a far better name in my opinion) - but it has got to be the fastest paced television serial on the planet. Not to mention the most fun in the plot department. Whoowee! What a thrill ride. I kept rewinding, and rewatching sections. This is my guilty pleasure folks. (Well it and a few other tv shows, I won't mention - I have a long list of guilty pleasures.)

Also, this show certainly likes to kill off its cool female supporting characters. They do not last long. But - I will give it credit for making all the characters, especially the ones that get killed off - interesting and complicated. No faceless red shirts these. You do care about them when they go.

Was thinking when I switched it on - live, or rather on delay, so I could fast-forward through commercials and rewind - that I can't take it too seriously, Being Human, it's not. Deep. Hah.
The writers don't take it seriously. The writing reminds me a lot of the Scream flicks - which are insanely entertaining and hilarious horror homages to the slasher flick of old.

( There be spoilers in them there woods )

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In case you haven't seen it - here's the Wondercon Doctor Who Panel with Neil Gaimen, via Neil Gaimen's
official blog:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=96fgOz0uDzs

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/04/if-this-is-thursday-then-i-must-be-at.html

And yes, you too can have Neil Gaimen's blog on your lj correspondence reading list.


Go here: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/officialgaiman/profile

Easy.