Too Many Ideas - Archive for 2006
Árǽdan Discovery
Thursday, April 6th, 2006I was looking over Árǽdan last night, getting back to editing it, when I realised that one of the minor characters towards the end of the story has an unexplained mystical skill. I’m leaving it unexplained in Árǽdan itself but it kicked off an idea for another story in the same world that tells the […]
Serious and Organised: Logo
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006I had been going to blog about the need for a cool modern (what a few years ago would have been a Cool Britannia) logo for the show. SOCA beat me to the logo and the BBC beat me to the analysis. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4876818.stm "It’s not our policy to comment on the logo or the agency […]
Serious and Organised: the Set Up
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006So what does our hypothetical show need to make it a hit. First a pair of tough crime fighters. But this isn’t the masogonistic 70s so one will be a woman. She’ll be hard as nails, dug from the same quarry as Buffy, ex special forces. For a bit of a role reversal he’ll be […]
Coming Soon to ITV 1: Serious and Organised
Monday, April 3rd, 2006It may just be me but behind all the serious talk today about the launch of SOCA there was a faint hint of a wink and a smirk. As though a few civil servants who like 70 and 80s cop shows had come up with it after a heavy night of drinking… “Ya know what […]
Content Hacking
Sunday, April 2nd, 2006I’ve spent the day hacking content into shape for my new web site. Hopefully I’ll be brave enough to ask a few friends to look at it soon and see what they think.
Friday Night
Saturday, April 1st, 2006I was supposed to be meeting some friends and colleagues at the Philharmonic pub in Liverpool on Friday night for a leaving do. Except no one had noticed that Condoleezza Rice was going to the Philharmonic Hall across the road. So we adjourned to a pub further down the hill. This isn’t going to turn […]
Shaolin Soccer
Friday, March 31st, 2006I picked up "Kung Fu Hustle" on DVD a month or so ago. Really enjoyed it. Picked up "Shaolin Soccer" last weekend. I haven’t seen a comedy that made me laugh in a long time. I’m not going to spoil it by analysing it though.
Prevarecation
Thursday, March 30th, 2006Prevarication, prevarication Prevarication, that’s what you need If you wanna take a rest If you wanna dodge the test Oh-oh prevarications what you need; With apologies to the late Roy Castle and whoever wrote the lyrics I’ve just wrecked. So I’ve been avoiding getting on with my web site by playing round with silly bits […]
Every Post Fixed
Wednesday, March 29th, 2006Well that was a thrilling hour I’ll never see back I set out to make a teeny change to my blog and ended up editing every post to correct the xhtml I’m going to have to be careful or I’ll need to retitle this blog Too Much Complaining
Odds and Ends
Tuesday, March 28th, 2006A bit of a bitty day today. Warmer but raining instead. Testing code at work that takes time to do a run so much twiddling of thumbs. Tried a chicken korma recipe that took my head off. Still it cleared my sinuses. Enjoyed the new BBC2 show”It’s Not Easy Being Green” especially the water wheel. […]