Its that time of year again when all the TV series come to an end – or at least the ones I’m watching, and a few new ones begin.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has ended its first series after nine episodes, looks a bit dodgey that its going to come back after that short a run – plus its producers are busy with Terminator 4.

Stargate: Atlantis series four has ended, with an excellent finale, apparently series five may air as soon as July.

Just watched Lions For Lambs, which despite starring Tom “Scientology” Cruise, was actually quite good. It had three interwoven stories going on at the same time, about Afghanistan, one was a senator feeding a reporter propaganda, another was a history teacher trying to motivate a student, and the other was two soldiers on a mission.

I’ve also lately watched:

• Bachelor Party 2, which was not so good
• Resurrecting the Champ, which was a pretty good story about a down and out boxing star – but not exactly Rocky
• Enchanted, which was a pretty bad live-action fairytale
• Margot At The Wedding – which was a really weird film about the days leading up to a wedding, and a really nasty, psycho sister/mother played by Nicole Kidman, she was very good, I mean you really wanted to stab her in the face by the end of the film!

I’ve upgraded my Xbox to the latest SVN build of XBMC, I was surprised how easy it was despite it being the dashboard on this Crystal Xbox (its just an application on my black Xbox). The library mode is quite cool.

I’ve been testing SCTP today at work, its a bit bleeding edge but I found that iptables has support for it and there’s the sctpscan portscanner, which also does host discovery.

I’ve been doing the taxes lately, just sent off the personal taxation form, paid the corporation tax and supplying Pip the info for the VAT return, but to cheer myself up I sent off this week’s invoice 😉

I just watched Dan In Real Life, which was a pretty good romantic comedy starring the guy from The Office US.

I’ve been trying out Innotek VirtualBox today, its soon to be acquired by Sun to be the desktop part of their xVM system (Xen being the server part).

I installed Vista Ultimate no problem using it and performance doesn’t seem too bad – in fact its very nicely threaded as it seemed to split the load well over the two processors (P4HT).

It even has a seemless mode like the latest Parallels and VMWare. It has some nice features like a built-in RDP server which includes USB support, however the networking is still a bit naff – NAT works out of the box, but if you want to bridge to your LAN, then you have to write scripts using brctl. Also I’m not sure if you can specify how many vCPU’s to use or 32/64-Bit mode.

Some real shockingly bad movies I’ve started to watch recently (most I’ve not been able to face sitting through):

American Gangster – basically The Godfather set in Harlem, at least twice as long as it needs to be.

Outpost – a Wolfenstein wannabee with British soldiers stumbling across a Nazi bunker full of the undead. Seriously though the director should be shot – there were camera angles where about 50% of the scene was blocked by a tree or random useless prop, also the shots were mainly way too far away and the colour was awful. Very low budget and certainly no Dog Soldiers.