July 2003

Half a map is better than… oh, wait, no it's not…

July 17, 2003

I was looking today for information on the London Underground, specifically, good hard statistics that might be useful to someone thinking about potential solutions to the perennial issue of the whole system heating up to near boiling point every time the outside temperature rises above 5. Kelvin. Instead I found a fragment of a rather […]

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An if for you

July 17, 2003

If I were standing on the top of a cliff right now, the steel grey sea lashing the rocks below, all white horses and froth, the boom of rollers beating the shore into submission, giant tankers reduced to a speck on the horizon as they head for safe harbour? If I were standing on the […]

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The Madness of Prince Charming

July 17, 2003

Adam Ant was one of the first pop stars I was aware of, and certainly the first I mimicked, the first one I wanted to be like. He was the object of one of my first crushes, along with Terry Hall of The Specials. I think it was the cheekbones, to be honest, and the […]

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The voices, the voices…

July 17, 2003

I love reading David Weinberger's blog, particularly when he blogs about his battles with his computer and learning Linux. (Boy, do I feel good knowing that the author of the Cluetrain Manifesto has computer problems!) Now I get to listen to him speak in an excellent interview with Chris Lydon. I like hearing people speak, […]

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I?m melting?

July 15, 2003

Yesterday was the hottest day of the year. We were, apparently, hotter than Morocco. I spent most of the day with icepacks clasped to my skin in an attempt to stay cool, what with not having any aircon in my lounge and all. Outside it was searingly hot, to the point that I went out […]

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Too many words in my head

July 15, 2003

Gah! I fear my brain is about to melt and dribble out of my nose. Not so much because of the heat, although it has been hell on toast here today, but because I just have too many words in my head. Emails, worksheets, my script, this blog? It’s like a sack of squabbling ferrets […]

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Further inappropriate use of scrolling green text

July 14, 2003

Some things in life are sacred. Scrolling green text is one of them, as I've mentioned before. Scrolling green text should only be used in one context, and I think we all know what that is. Last night I had a nasty experience whilst watching the Paramount Comedy channel, and I’m still reeling from the […]

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The weirdest thing about MM Screenwriter 2000

July 13, 2003

Using Word never makes me feel like a writer. Doesn't matter how big the wordcount ever gets, I just don't make that transition from 'person using Word' to 'author'. The minute I open MM Screenwriter 2000 and see my work, all in Courier 12pt, all laid out to industry standards, I think 'Oh, look! A […]

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Edge of Darkness, part IV

July 13, 2003

Last Sunday, despite feeling like seven shades of shite, I watched Edge of Darkness, episode III. I made my parents sit through it – I’m not sure they were impressed. My Dad doesn’t remember much about it at all, although I remember him being keen on it at the time. Both last week and this, […]

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3299th

July 13, 2003

Thanks to Altered Perceptions for bringing to my attention the fact that, ranked by number of visitors on The Truth Laid Bear, Chocolate and Vodka comes 3299th. Well, gotta be better than 3300th! (And I thought I was doing so well with between 100 and 200 visitors a day!)

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Ha! And ha again!

July 12, 2003

Seems I rank No. 1 if you search for the words 'chocolate' and 'city' in Google. I realise that that is an entirely pointless ego-surfing kind of thing to say, but what the hell. 😀

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Give me London or give me… well, maybe New York, I guess, at a push

July 12, 2003

Days like today I really miss London. I get such a strong feeling of 'hiraeth', that wistful homesick longing that only the word 'hiraeth' really expresses. I've been speaking Welsh continuously all day, and as I'm typing this my brain is simultaneously chucking up a Welsh translation. Apart from for the word 'simultaneously', though. Came […]

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The script

July 12, 2003

I downloaded Movie Magic Screenwriter 2000 yesterday. The demo version is fully functional, except when it runs out you can only save one script to another format. I can't afford to buy the full version, so I will have to make do with this whilst I can. It's pretty good, I think. Easy to use, […]

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What accent do you have?

July 12, 2003

Ken, over at Digital Common Sense, blogs about Rageboy’s post about Why I Blog. And They Don’t. Both are amusing and worth your time. However, the thing that kinda struck a chord was Ken’s comments about geography and how irrelevant it is to blogging and the blogosphere. Ken’s right, of course, the internet does make […]

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IMAX mishap

July 11, 2003

Oh, I'm peeved. Very peeved. Not to mention dischuffed and begruntled. Yesterday I trekked all the way up to London to meet up with A and go to see The Matrix: Reloaded at the IMAX. We’ve both been looking forward to this for a while, although frankly I think I’m more of a Matrixite than […]

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