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Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘My Stuff’ Category

V5I: Replace Selected Objects with Random Plants Python Thing

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

A little script for Vue 5 Infinite that, as the subject line says, replaces selected objects with random plants. Instructions for using it are at the top of the script. Sorry this is the no frills end of scripting with no fancy interface just a couple of variables to hack in the file before you […]

Lunch Hijacked by an Idea

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

There I was eating my lunch at work and I get jumped by an idea. Wonderland, Narnia, Never Never Land and other children’s stories have a common trick in them. Children go to a fantasy world and then come back and no one notices they were missing because time works differently in the two worlds. […]

When Inspirons Collide

Monday, April 10th, 2006

Walking to work has up moments and down moments. You get to see wild life. You get drenched by the rain. I’ll not blather on/wax lyrical on the subject today. The big plus is time to think. So when I started this outpouring of my incomplete concepts I had an idea for a 70s TV […]

Árǽdan Discovery

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

I 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, 2006

I 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, 2006

So 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, 2006

It 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, 2006

I’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.

Prevarecation

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Prevarication, 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, 2006

Well 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

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