And just like that...

So, a while ago I heard about this show. I don't remember where I heard it or even what I heard - whatever it was was enough to pique my interest and when FX decided to air the show over Christmas, I dutifully set the Sky Plus box to record the series and got on with watching other things.

I ploughed through the entire series of Braquo (French and brilliant) and then the second season of Boardwalk Empire (generally good, with some genuinely shocking moments and some terrific performances) and I was looking for something new to watch.

And there was this show: five episodes of half an hour each. So tonight I decided to watch them all, back to back. After watching the first episode, I wasn't sure what I thought and I put a tweet out asking whether anyone had seen it...

And that's how I ended up spending the evening watching the show while, at the same time, chatting on Twitter with the guy who made it. How cool is that?

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A little while after I posted this, I remembered something that happened three or so years ago. Bear with me - there's a point to this!

I was flicking through the movie channels and I came across some film or other: it wasn't a big budget movie, more like a made-for-TV issue of the week type thing. I watched it for ten minutes and, for some reason I can't remember, decided I'd look the film up on the IMDB.

I noticed that that someone had posts a comment in about 2005, asking whether anyone had a copy of the movie. I emailed the address and asked if they were still looking: they were. Turns out the film was based on a true story and they knew some of the real people involved so I was able to record it, transfer it to DVD and then post it to them in the US.

I'm not trying to blow my own trumpet here- it's nothing I wouldn't have done for anyone, really, and I'm sure most of you would have done the same. My point is, the technology that you're using to read this - that I'm using to type this - makes us incredibly connected, in ways that simply have never been possible before. Let's try to do good things with it, eh?

And on that preachy note, I'm off to bed.