September 2003

Oops. Wrong drug.

September 11, 2003

I'm all for transparency in drug education. Honesty. Telling people the truth about drugs (warning: coke turns you into a twat!), rather than horror stories designed to scare them (warning: e will kill you!). Thus I'm happy to see real scientific studies into drugs to see what they really do, as opposed to people spouting […]

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Mad world

September 11, 2003

I still can't get over Gary Jules' verison of Tears for Fears' Mad World, used on the Donnie Darko soundtrack. It's strangely and hauntingly beautiful. How on earth anyone could then speed it up and put a dance beat behind it, and still be able to live with themselves afterwards, is beyond me. There's a […]

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Joining in with the new national sport

September 11, 2003

For a limited period only, the new national sport has become Blaine Baiting. Seeing as the pompous idiot has suspended himself in a perspex box within firing range of a bunch of Londoners, it’s really only to be expected that someone at some point should start launching projectiles at him. As far as I know, […]

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Phobophobia

September 11, 2003

Via Neil Gaiman comes an index of phobias. It seems that my fear of driving, which could I suppose be loosely interpreted as a fear of cars or vehicles and riding in them, is ?amaxophobia?. However, cruel is the only word to describe the person who decided that a fear of long words should be […]

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Fiddling with the gutter

September 10, 2003

Just been fiddling with the blog gutter – now you can search through my entries for, well, whatever you fancy. Can't guarantee you'll find much though. Also, you can browse my posts by category (although most of the earliest posts haven't been categorised at all), and more easily access the archives. I've tried to amalgamate […]

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Job seeker?s update

September 10, 2003

I have spent almost all of today in the hunt for a new job. I’ve located a bunch of recruitment agencies in the Manchester area and started to phone them up and send them my CV. So far, I’ve located 14 agencies, and spoken/emailed CVs to eight of them. The rest I’ll do tomorrow. Previous […]

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Q: How stupid is the RIAA? A: Very.

September 10, 2003

I don’t know how many times I can say that I believe music file swapping will ultimately be good for the music industry and that I think the industry has its collective head shoved so far up its own arse that its eyes are brown before I start to bore myself. But when I read […]

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SP2 is a slippery little bugger

September 10, 2003

SP1 was a fairly easy thing to write. It all just kinda tumbled out into a first draft that I was happy with, although I knew it still needed work. SP2 is not being so accommodating. Yesterday and today I've been suffering from an attack of the isitcrap’s. It's one of those moods where you […]

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Stats are back, sort of

September 9, 2003

Ok, I know my obsession with my own stats is a bit sad, but after earlier comments I thought you'd like to know that the stats on Blog-City are back, sort of, and you can all rest assured that everyone appears still to be visiting. If you do have a day when you're trying to […]

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It goes on…

September 9, 2003

I've just searched through 16 recruitment websites. Didn't find a single job that I felt I could (or wanted to) apply for. I'm trying keep my search criteria as broad as possible, but recently I've made some decisions which aren't helping matters but which I would like to stick by. I want to live in […]

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Fun things discovered whilst sorting out paperwork

September 9, 2003

One of the fun things about moving (you mean, there are fun things about moving?) is that every now and again you find something that makes you smile. I had forgotten that there were photos in existence of me with my black and red hair. I loved that hair – high maintenance but when I […]

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Comparisons…

September 9, 2003

It was pointed out to me that some of you have no basis for comparison when it comes to my appearance, specifically regarding black and red hair vs. the current natural blonde hair. I shall thusly bow to public demand and post two more recent pics, just for the sake of your edification. And, just […]

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The house of electricy death, parts 1 and 2

September 8, 2003

The house of electricy death, part one (Written 2pm Sunday) Spent all morning faffing about. Nothing new there, as you probably know. Had lunch, replied to an email or two, then decided that enough procrastination was enough, and that I’d get on with SP2 with the aim of making it to page 30 by the […]

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SP2 well underway

September 6, 2003

I was going to do this second screenplay 'properly', i.e. I was going to sit down and structure it correctly, outline it and, once I was sure I had all the elements in all the right places, only then would I commence writing. Of course, me being me and having the patience of a brick, […]

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Where is the fast-forward button?

September 5, 2003

I'm not having such a good day today. Feel a bit embattled and dispirited. Well, a lot, actually. The ex-landlord’s being very difficult. I’ve just had two phone calls from people wanting to know why Get Fluent has closed. My chances of getting anything useful done this morning evaporated when it turned out my niece […]

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