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Majel Barrett, wife of Gene Roddenberry and the voice of the Federation computers in Star Trek since ... well, literally ever, has died at the age of 76. She was pretty cool - a fan's actress, never taking her fame for granted. It is claimed that she finished the voiceover work for the new Star Trek movie just two weeks ago.
In other news, Katsu and Mike landed today, and are now safely ensconced at a mutual friend's house in Fishersgate. Hopefully, there will be a joint excursion into Town on the weekend for shopping, coffee, and later, gaming. Since it's the weekend before Christmas, we may be need some form of armour or APC...
Also, I'm in the process of getting the last of the old blog entries (dating back to 2004!) in my records into Glasshalfempty's database, so that the migration to the new codebase (scheduled for Sunday night / Monday, probably) will include the entire timeline, in order. I just ran across a cluster of entries from December 2004, when I was just starting work on the FlexRay project as my MSc. I was either very optimistic, or pretty naive, in those days. Four years doesn't sound like a lot, but I hardly recognise myself. I'm either jaded or realistic nowadays, and I wish like hell I knew which...