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It's the same reason I've been so stubborn about the plugin manager and having write access - doing it all via FTP is the only safe path.Because we wanted to make a difference. And because it wasn't ever really about the money.

Yes, it's for production reasons. They also invariably do something similar for the companion. The filming time for Tennant and Freeman during Blink allowed them to film the finale, for example. Catherine Tate's absence during Midnight was to allow her to film Turn Left.Yes, I think I agree with that. Having seen pretty much the entire canon, they're the only monster that won't date and become lame - and not need a reboot. The Daleks, in every incarnation, were not particularly scary (for me), though the fringe variations like the Special Weapons Dalek make it interesting. The Cybermen were creepy the first time I saw them because I knew they were made from people in some fashion - and the reboot made better Cybermen, but still not scary.

All the others will generally need some kind of reboot at some point in their future to keep them relevant (the Daleks have long since ceased to be relevant, and really the only time in recent years where they were particularly interesting was when Davros was with them)But even in season 1 she's still a whiny, lovestruck twit. The finale to season 1 is definitely redeeming for her though.The plot from Family of Blood was pretty good, and played quite well I thought, her part in the season 3 finale was certainly her finest hour, and the parting of the ways between her and the Doctor was very good. But yes, under-plotted and wasted.I don't like the actress much, I didn't particularly like her role, however I did appreciate the character development - that by the end of the season she had changed, and her fate is all the more bitter because she'd become a character I didn't thoroughly dislike.That's the thing, though, the whole point of the show, really is that it isn't about *him*. It's the story of his companions and the worlds and tales he shows them - it isn't his story, at least not from my perspective.Feisty fighter, shame that his mind got wiped really.Certainly the most developed companion in Old Who. Nice to note that by the time we got to New Who and met her again, it wasn't the same dynamic as before - it was much more on an equal footing.And one to whom everything the Doctor did was 'magic', which got old a bit fast.Not even close, seriously. Don't forget, at the time Ace was the companion, the BBC were desperately trying to shut down Dr Who quietly by making it increasingly crap, combined with a script editor who was trying to push a political agenda in the background. She had the same problem Colin Baker had some years before - bad scriptwriting. Ace's overall character arc, the Curse of Fenric and Ghostlight is actually very clever. Survival, however, is a truly dismal storyline.Yes, very much so - her later character, not the younger form we see taking on Hitler! But yes, her later approach once she's become a Doctor herself, does have similarities to both incarnations of Romana.


If we're debating characters, Peri 'Perpagilliam'[1] Brown, the only character to manage to overshadow the regeneration of her Doctor, with cleavage >_>

But worse than that, Mel. I don't even know Mel's last name, but dear god, irritating. Trying to get the Doctor to drink carrot juice >_< This isn't funny, people. Or Adric. You can't convince me Ace was a worse companion than Adric. There is a reason Adric died, and not one of being dramatic.

Tegan Jovanka (Four and Five), Turlough Vislor (Five), Nyssa (Five) were all perfectly adequate, even if Turlough's back story is way more convoluted and unnecessary than it needed to be (tied into the whole Black Guardian mess), though like most of the characters that far back, there wasn't a great deal of development for them.

Going a bit earlier, Liz Shaw, Sergeant Benton (Three) and of course the Brigadier were strong characters too - though only the Brigadier got any real development.

1.	I could not be arsed to look up the spelling of her name however this is her full name.

That should be far less of an issue with Wedge because of the way plugins work. It could be made almost transparent with little or no real effort, too.

Yes, though I didn't remember if we'd ditched it or not.So they download the updated files, then figure out what changes have to be made if any, then apply it all at once... hmm.

See, this is part of why I love my email host. I can see exactly why a given message was flagged as spam. That enables me to figure out what I need to do to prevent it in future.

Been there, done that. It's in no small part what contributed to my burning out earlier this year.I have a slightly broader definition, in that some effort should be put in. Running a site should require some skill but if you're not willing to learn the skills, be prepared to recruit someone - paid if necessary - who does have those skills.

I don't have every skill required to successfully run a site - I'm no designer/artist. So I turned to someone who is and they made the logo for me. But effort was involved (and some money)Going to give me an Android device to run them on?Thanks ;)Does your host tell you why? My host tells me the headers on every mail if I ask, and I can see the rules used to classify something as spam. I have an idea what the problem is though (though I know a number of hosts who classify all standard SMF emails as spam these days)

OK, so I've been very quiet on the coding front lately, one of those projects has materialised in Game Memorial - http://gamememorial.com/

It's a sort of blog/forum hybrid and it's built on SMF 2.0. The reason it's not Wedge is because 1) I couldn't be arsed porting newBalance to Wedge at this point and 2) I don't want to keep patching it once it's stable, something that can't be guaranteed for an indefinite period with Wedge.

There are some other aspects to this that I'm exploring for how they'll fit into Wedge in future:
* future posting - there is the ability to future-post topics and replies. I have a crude but workable UI for this, which isn't really suitable for Wedge at the present time[1] but I want to explore its applications beyond blogging; I'm a biggish fan of WP having the ability to post blog posts in the future, and it's something Wedge deserves, but I'm fairly certain there are benefits to this for regular forum content too, and that's something I will be exploring. The thing is, I don't want to take a risk with this in mainline Wedge, I want to explore it on my own terms and see how it works in practice for me before I figure out a nice way to integrate it into Wedge (core or otherwise)

* tagging - I know we talked about topic tags for Wedge in the past. I'm not entirely sure how useful it would be so I want to explore that too, though in GM's case it's only on the 'game a day' board.

There's all sorts of nuances related to navigation and so on for these things that I need to try out on a real site and see how I interact with it as well as trying to judge how users interact with it - and again, I think the potential is drastic enough that I don't want to drop that in the core just yet until I understand how it works in a real environment.

There is also the fact that it gives me a goal that isn't directly tied into writing code, and more about exercising other parts of my skills and abilities, which serves as a nice rest from the stresses of coding, and by the time demand implied on me it'll actually *force* me to take a break from being stressed by coding which will hopefully work out the last of the kinks related to burn-out and help reduce it happening in the future.

1.	The date picker facility is jQuery UI's. It's 42KB minified before gzipping. I am not kidding.