One of my favourite utilities, the amazing SafariPlus, doesn’t work under Leopard.
Whether that’s down to changes to how Input Managers are handled in Leopard or something else I don’t know. (Input Managers aren’t, as earlier thought, totally banished in Leopard, they just operate under tighter restrictions.)
I want this utility back! I don’t want to disable cookies completely, but I want them flushed when I quit Safari. At the same time I want to be able to stay logged in on certain sites by allowing particular sites’ cookies to persist.
Is there anything else for Safari that fits the bill?
Prison Break is back soon, but this time it is on satellite after being bounty hunted by Sky One. This is going to disappoint a lot of loyal fans who have stuck with it through two seasons on five.
Sky is always doing this. They don’t identify brand new shows as having potential, invest in them and cultivate an audience. They wait for another broadcaster to build up a following and then poach it. They did it with 24, they did it with Lost and now they have done it with Prison Break. Heroes will be next, just see if it isn’t.
There is one upside to Sky’s adoption of these shows: they broadcast them much earlier than the terrestrial channels had been doing. Prison Break is back on September 24th; if it was still on five we would have to wait till February 2008. Last season’s episodes of Lost were broadcast mere days after they aired in America.
If there’s one thing Sky should do, they should exercise their option to sell on the rights to terrestrial broadcasters so that those without Sky can catch these shows at a later date. Then they would make money and also retain the cachet of being first with the big shows. So far, however, Sky has not done this, no doubt to maintain complete exclusivity and secure more subscribers.
This post contains spoilers about season six of 24, in case you haven’t seen it yet. Here’s what I think was bad about Day 6 of 24.
Firstly, after a good start and a very exciting plot with the nuclear weapons, the series’ ultimate climax centred around a piece of circuit board. It might have been okay for an episode or two, but hour after hour was filled with dialogue about it, which was a shame because the characters concerned with it (Vice President Daniels, Karen Hayes, Tom Lennox and Lisa Miller) were first class.
Secondly: office romances. It just beggars belief that CTU people would have the time or the inclination to be kissing and cuddling during shift, let alone during a day like this.
Another problem is that there was too much exposition. Characters in any series, 24 included, do reiterate what has happened through their dialogue, to help fill in gaps for those who have missed episodes, but this season seemed noticeably worse. The way these recaps were spoken was also quite clunky, very soap-opera-like. How many times did Morris have to remind us that he helped terrorists under duress, or that he couldn’t forgive Chloe for lording it over him on one occasion? Again, because Chloe is an great character, seeing her engage in such inane chatter with Morris was a shame.
Lastly: Audrey Raines. Never allow this dull, watery character back into the show.
Having said all that I am looking forward to the next season to see how they change it in light of the criticism and ratings drop.