Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Life Stuff’ Category
Get me the Comic Strip Presents Stat
Friday, March 24th, 2006I spotted a headline, now changed, on a news site earlier “Seven Plot Bomb Blast at Bluewater”. I don’t remember that one in Enid Blyton’s cannon of children’s books. “Five Go Adventuring Again”, “Secret Seven on the Trail” and “The Castle of Adventure” I remember. A lost gem or time to call the Comic Strip […]
DIY Pop Shield Article
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006This will be appearing on my new web site with pictures I’m going to take at the weekend… If your getting popping sounds when recording vocals for use in Daz Mimic, your Pod Casting or whatever you record singing or speach for you need a pop shield (sometimes called a breath shield). This disperses the […]
Wot no Blogspot?
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006Server errors stopped me posting yesterday 🙁 So three times as much rubbish coming today to make up for it 🙂
How not to Sell
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006Oh the irony. After writing up the night class fiasco I arrive at work to find an advert for the summer courses from Liverpool University. Just off to check in the mirror. I’m back. It doesn’t say “mug” on my forehead. I’ll keep my money. Only 50 minutes till second part of CSI. Something to […]
How Not to Teach
Monday, March 20th, 2006Well tonight was the last night of a night class that I can only describe as a complete none event. Twenty weeks that allegedly focused on Creating Fictional Worlds. It said so in the title. The prospectus mentioned world building. It mentioned Fantasy and Science Fiction. What it didn’t mention was that that all the […]
No Plan Survives Saturday
Sunday, March 19th, 2006Well today was supposed to be a shopping, washing and site content day. It turned into a sleeping in, shopping, washing, php, xhtml and css day instead. I now have breadcrumb trails coded. Both sorts. And I’ve validated my XHTML and CSS at W3. I’m going to play with another ideas I had for a […]
A Little Perl of a Script
Saturday, March 18th, 2006We were supposed to be going out for a drink from work tonight but it got cancelled 🙁 So instead I spent a few hours this evening playing with a Perl script I used back on my old spodbox site called Groan. I’d forgotten how much fun it was to see what sort of weird […]
Real Life More Unbelievable than Fiction
Wednesday, March 15th, 2006This news story from the BBC tickled me. I know it’s really potetially serious but it just sounds like it came out of a sitcom set in a school. School’s WWII bomb polished off
Battleship Potemkin Moment
Tuesday, March 14th, 2006Life imitated art this morning in a little way. As I was walking to work a woman was sorting out her toddlers gloves and hats by a shop door. She had a push chair trapped against her foot. A gust of wind caught it and blew it away towards a slip road that runs along […]
Defeated by the Common Cold
Saturday, March 11th, 2006Well yesterday was a wash out. Spent most of the day trying to keep warm. Then watched the new series of Hustle. Not that it was bad. Slickly made. Well acted. Cheeky. But how many more times can they do a variant on “The Sting” before someone calls the plot police and their writer’s artistic […]