iTunes hacked

When I came back from Glasgow I unfortunately found that my iTunes account had been "hacked". I had a couple of email receipts from Apple telling me that most of the money in my account (from a gift card) had been used to purchase poker chips for a Texas Poker game by some company called Kamagames Ltd.

Seems I'm not the only one and this has happened before to others.

This is just a warning to anyone else out there with an iTunes account. Hopefully Apple will sort things out (they haven't yet).

Fishy Friday

Seaguy

Strength: 2

Toughness: 3

Special Powers: 1

Status: 4

Grant Morrison's weird and wacky, scuba suit wearing hero who exists in a world where all evil has been defeated. And of course, Seaguy has to have a sidekick called Chubby, a talking, cigar-smoking tuna fish. Because it's Morrison.

Winsome Wasp's Wardrobe #17

art by Sal Buscema and Sam Grainger (from Avengers #72 1970)

Q&A with Neil Gaiman

Over on The Guardian website, Neil Gaiman has answered a number of questions about his Doctor Who episode The Doctor's Wife.

It explains a number of those niggling questions about that episode, such as why we didn't see more rooms inside the TARDIS or learn more about Idris (a lot of it boils down to limited running time and money).

Monster Monday

Doctor Who: The Doctor's Wife

So that's where the Tenth's control room appears. We'd seen pictures of Amy and Rory in the old control room and here it appears as an archived room in the TARDIS. A back-up, as it were.

This week's episode was all about the Doctor's relationship with the TARDIS as 'she' finally found her voice. And what a fantastic episode it was. Just brilliant.

When the only complaint I can make was that the only bit of the TARDIS we saw (other than that old control room) was lots of the same corridor then it can't be bad. Well, sometimes it went a bit too fast to keep up as well I suppose...

Still all I can say is marvellous!

Then there was that little prediction at the end: "the only water in the forest is the river". What with a river, a forest and the silence this all sort of points towards the Silence In The Library/Forest Of the Dead episodes from a couple of series ago. Are they still in the library then? Perhaps saved in the computer like River?

And, of course, a pond is made of water. So does this mean River is Amy Pond? Or that Amy doesn't really exist, only River?

Yet another mystery to add to the rather large list.

Next week there's another two parter and it looks pretty spooky!

Glasgow

...or at least a little part of it with some modern architecture.

Fishy Friday

Fathom

Strength: 3

Toughness: 6

Special Powers: 8

Status: 5

Yet another superhero called Fathom, this one by Michael Turner. She also has water manipulation powers. And looks sort of similar to the Comico version of Fathom (except that Fathom had green skin and more clothes). Hmm. Maybe it was all just a big coincidence on Turner's part...?