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I went to see David Tennant being Hamlet weekend before last and it was rather corking.

Subject of much hype, not least because it starred not one but two sci-fi icons - Patrick Stewart being the other one - and only David Duchovny being added to the bill could have made it more of a geek draw.

Tennant entered the stage silently and stood at the corner, head bowed, whilst the opening scene unfolded. And every pair of eyes in the audience was on him. Hype got him that far but then he had to carry a play for 3 hours. And crikey, he did just that.

Full of energy and animation, but also subtle when required, especially for the most famous lines of the play, which he deliberately underplayed.

I had hoped for good things when I booked last January (January! And I could only get restricted view tickets) but Tennant exceeded even the highest expections.

More. Much more.

A geeky guy has created a web page that figures out your gender based on your browser history.

It is a clever idea - it works out what colour your browser shows links in, since visited links will be a different colour. Or color, depending on your disposition. So although a browser does to give history information to other sites directly, it accidentally blabs with colours.

According to the script I am 95% probably a male.

See how you score.