Too Many Ideas - Archive for June, 2009
Things that make me go eh?
Monday, June 29th, 2009Bought new pots and pans today from John Lewis after spending months trying to pick ones I liked. I’d spent ages looking for pans that were oven proof. It didn’t say they were on the top but on Saturday I discovered that along with exactly the same information that was on the top of the […]
Rolf's Lyrics Explained
Thursday, June 25th, 2009Maybe they should have tied the wallabies down as well as the Kangaroos because it sounds like they’re high as kites.
268 Links Sitting in a Database
Monday, June 22nd, 2009I rebuilt the Vue Links Directory from one database to another yesterday as part of finishing off a complete rebuild of the impworks site into WordPress. There were 268 links to migrate and while the basic move was handled easily I then had to work my way through and do some data cleaning to improve […]
Tweeting Hash Codes Batman
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009I’m not really a twitter user, I’ve got an account but while I’ll post a certain level of boring mundanity here I’m not into the recording the minute up to the minute stuff. I just don’t think it or I’m interesting enough and while blogging is probably a bit weird tweeting just goes over the […]
Radio 7 Heinlein
Monday, June 15th, 2009Discovered Radio 7 is doing a series of readings of abridged versions of Heinlein short stories. Forget the endless discussion of his politics which too often ignore a lot of the “meaning” in the stories in favour of having an easy bash at something the analyst doesn’t like (and sometime miss that Heinlein made it […]
Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire
Friday, June 12th, 2009I owe the creators of Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire a big thank you. A couple of months back I wrote a script for a 30 minute radio sit com more by accident than intention. I had an idea one morning and seven hours later I had 6,700 words written set in […]