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Go hunt up the mini-series Ultraviolet It's a down and gritty 6 parter revolving around creatures with fangs who drink blood and the cop who discovers them and gets pulled into a secret government organisation to deal with the threat. Idris Elba plays one of the team involved. Plus its fun in that the word "Vampire" is never mentioned once in the entire show. It's basically a very British gritty mix of police drama, thriller, mystery and vampire chasing.

It's always fun when you spend 4 odd hours downloading a game, hit the 90% mark and have to shut things down, then when you come back to restart it... Steam resets the download back to 0% and starts all over again. So much for my cunning plan to have a break from university workload with some new gaming....

For the other fun world news... StratFor - Catalonia declares independence ; well, more or less

This time around with David Boreanaz..

Prince Harry launches new partnership with MoD over improved mental health for Armed Forces

Out of curiosity, and to take a break from some sql, I watched an episode of Seal Team. Seems like a fairly functional "new" take on The Unit. Just this time around, it's a Seal Team, and the balance of missions away and home life and families, rather than Army Special Forces. They're weaving in the strands of the top-line team, the wives and kids, and the ****y young guy going through training who wants to get in.

As a non-sailor with some passing trivia and background knowledge.... Part of the history of sea shanties was the sailors singing them as they were doing a repetitive manual task.. Things like a group of them winding the anchor up, or such like that needed a certain amount of synchronisation. They really only came in for the age of the clipper-ships and smaller crews during the end of the 18th and through the 19th century. The modernisation of ships with automation and mechanisation of many of the functions decreased the need for the crew to handle them in those groups and it sorted of passed away. I do believe there's a certain sense of "revival" for the talent these days, but its much more of a .. hobby / history of the craft thing rather than a practical part and parcel of sailing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChawvZd-_nc&feature=youtu.be