CSI: Miami, where the receptionist completely reprogrammes the Web
Watched bits if CSI: Miami last night (Neil’s excuse for watching it every week: “It’s so bad, it’s good.”). The episode was called Silencer, where two people were shot with (wait for it) a silenced weapon, and part of the case was solved through the decoding of an unofficial company bloog (note to producers: ‘blog’ does not equal ‘blog posts’).
It’s amazing how this receptionist could programme her bloog script so that it looks completely different from any other bloog out there — it looked more like a CD-ROM application. Unless she has l33t Flash skillz and is completely wasted working as the boss’ PA (and why the fuck would anyone write a bloog in Flash). Also the design was worse (although I could barely believe it) than the interfaces designed in Hackers. Hello, 1995.
Hackers was actually more believable than this episode.
Have you noticed that Horatio is a dirty old man and doesn’t actually appear to do any forensic work? He just makes cryptic, stupid statements and wears his sunnies indoors.