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The episode begins with the Doctor showing Donna how to steer the TARDIS, when a mobile phone begin to ring. The Doctor answers it. It's Martha Jones and she's bringing the Doctor back to Earth.

Naruto plays basketball. I missed his last game so I inquired as to how he went. His team won. Then I asked if he scored any points. "No." he replied, "I had three shots and I missed them both." Much hilarity in the kitchen. To be fair, he did correct himself pretty quickly.

In this episode the Doctor and Donna travel to the Ood Sphere - the home planet of the Ood - last seen in The Satan Pit. The Doctor hears singing, but Donna can't, and they find a dying Ood. The Doctor feels he owes them one, so they investigate. And we discover the horrible secret behind why they are a slave race.

The Doctor takes Donna to Ancient Rome. She is delighted as she wanders around. Eventually they realise it's not Rome, it's Pompeii, and as the Doctor so eloquently puts it, "It's Volcano Day!".

This episode begins with the Doctor and Donna Noble (last seen in The Runaway Bride) investigating Adipose Industries - a very successful fat-loss company. At first, it appears they're together, but we soon realise neither is aware the other is there.

It seems much later than last year, but it's actually a year to the day since the last Christmas special. We quickly find out that the TARDIS hasn't crashed into The Titanic as implied, but rather a spaceship of the same name orbiting the Earth. The Doctor and Astrid¹ Peth (played by Kylie Minogue) then battle the corrupt owner of the spaceship and the murderous, robotic host to save the Earth from annihilation.

Groan. What an appalling game. Verbeek experimented with many new players and it showed. We played poorly. China scored a cracker of a goal after 10 minutes and didn't do much more apart from waste time. A 0-1 loss.

Australia has progressed to the next stage of World Cup qualification with an emphatic 3-1 away win over Qatar! A Brett Emerton double did the damage. Kewell wrapped it up with a third before a late consolation to Qatar.

Today I started not just a new job, but a new career. Yes, I've left behind software engineering and made my "other career" my professional career. I'm now the Operations and Facilities manager for a large sporting organisation. I wonder if I can still call myself a geek?

Another match I didn't get to see. Apparently we didn't play too badly, but we lost 0-1. The goal may have been a bit of a fluke, but we rode our luck in Brisbane last week so we can't complain too much.

Our first loss under Verbeek and our first conceded goal for the qualifiers. It had to happen sometime I suppose. In the other game, Qatar defeated China 1-0 away, to draw level with us on points. This all makes next week's game against Qatar very important.