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I have to admit, I am a very nervous England supporter this evening.

Since Capello has taken over the team, I’ve found myself no longer disenfranchised with the national side…until the World Cup began.

I don’t fully agree with his team selection, and I don’t believe that his handling of the squad in preparation for the tournament and indeed for individual matches warrants much praise.

However, he can redeem himself in my eyes and the eyes of many more England fans if he makes bold team selection and tactical decisions ahead of the first whistle in our game against Slovenia tomorrow.

In my opinion, he has no choice but to either play an attacking 4-3-3 with Rooney in the middle flanked by the likes of Joe Cole and Aaron Lennon, or go for a more pressing 4-5-1 packing the midfield and pushing Gerrard foward into the slot to support him.

If we go out onto that pitch with Rooney and Heskey up front in the same 4-4-2 we’ve deployed against the USA and Algeria, I will quite possibly cry tears of fustration.

The budget was announced today. The iPhone 4 officially releases on Thursday; but the biggest story of this week, month and perhaps even the year is going to be whether Capello and his band of merry bored men progress to the knock-out stages as last-minute heroes, or complete and utter total frakk-ups.

Work closes at 1.30pm tomorrow so we can all go and watch the match. I’m lucky that I’ve got work coming out of every orifice as I’ll need every distraction possible to keep my mind off the fact that we could be out by 5:00pm tomorrow afternoon.

I’m tempted to have a flutter at the bookies, but I’m ashamed to say I might be having a bet on Slovenia if the odds are good enough.

Came across this on Vimeo as I’m researching the Canon EOS 7D for my next camera purchase.

The EOS range of video SLR’s have stunning low-light capabilities.

Thanks to the folks over at SiFi Wire, I’m now aware that NASA are tracking an anomaly that is the strongest proof yet that Doctor Who is not a television show, but actually a dramatisation of events happening in our reality.

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted this dark entity or ‘crack’ 11,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius…

A crack in space?

And images taken from the TARDIS scanner screen show a very similar looking crack…

Why is the TARDIS in trouble?

The plot thickens.

Either way, this Saturday at 6.05pm we’ll begin to find out exactly how it all happens.

I’ve decided that I’m definitely going to pursue an iPad before the end of the year, but that actually brings about a bit of a conundrum.

At the moment, I’ve got all my media converted into an iPhone format so I can watch older Dr Who or Battlestar Galactica episodes on the move. I’m soon going to be ripping and converting all my Red Dwarf DVD’s to the same format. What I’m also quite likely to do is produce high quality rips of episodes from all those shows in a size and resolution good enough to watch on my 27.5 iMac. Yes yes I know I could just put the DVD in the machine but I like the idea of quickly opening up an episode without any faffing around.

However, when I do get the iPad does this mean that I’m going to create a third copy of all of these episodes converted to a more suitable size and resolution, just for the iPad? One approach I was thinking of taking is simply creating a generic ‘mobile’ edition of the episodes at a half way point between what I’d put on each of the two devices. Perhaps that is the simplest solution?