October 2004

Fell off the wagon

October 19, 2004

I have a confession to make. I fell off the sugar wagon. If you remember, I've been trying to cut down on refined sugar and processed foods in my diet because it was making me feel just a wee bit on the crappy side. I did really well for a while, six small meals a […]

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Jumping the Ladder

October 18, 2004

Until today, the whole car-crashed undead zombie that is my lovelife made no sense to me, or anyone else for that matter. Not alive, but not actually dead either, it just limped along, losing limbs as a matter of course and getting progressively fuglier and fuglier. Today, however, I was pointed in the direction of […]

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Should I worry about…

October 14, 2004

We're crap at judging risks. People are terrified of flying despite the fact that we're far more likely to get hit by a car than involved in an air crash. More people die each week of cancer than were killed in September 11, yet still the fear of terrorism pervades our society. From salmon scares […]

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Three links

October 14, 2004

Piratemonkeys – Another one for those of you who don't like Mary Sues. (Thanks Kevin.) As Simon says, IT's b0rked Tyson the Skateboarding Bulldog. Way cool. (Thanks Simon.)

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Yes! Yessss!! Yeeeesssssss!!!!

October 12, 2004

Guess who's gonna be in the same room as – yes, that's right, physically in proximity to – Messers Wright and Pegg? Yup! Me!! FRI 29 OCT Curzon Soho Screen 3; 1.30-2.45pm (£6/5) Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright: a cult comedy class on Shaun of the Dead Since their smash hit Shaun of the Dead, […]

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10,000 words! Sadly, all of them are 'the'

October 11, 2004

Erm, ok, so what day are we? Monday… Right, yes, good. It's all starting to blur one day into another here. I have essentially spent my days writing, or thinking about writing, or thinking that I should be writing. Finished the treatment and decided not to bother workshopping it. Whilst logic dictates that it's a […]

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Search terms

October 10, 2004

I like to keep an eye on which search terms are successfully used to find CnV. For the last few months the most common by far has been 'William Shatner Common People', or some such combination. The recent release of Duran Duran's single Sunrise has prompted a bunch of Durannies to start searching for terms […]

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A wee post before I get down to work

October 7, 2004

Hijacked Kate's broadband connection just so that I could get a blog fix. Hoorah for ethernet cables, I say. If you're curious, the treatment for the next script is coming along nicely. Finished the first draft on Tuesday, started to mindmap it yesterday and that's bringing to the fore all the structural flaws which are, […]

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Away with the faeries

October 4, 2004

I'm going away for a week, ostensibly to finish writing the treatment for my next screenplay, but frankly I'll probably spend a significant amount of time doing bugger all/watching Shaun of the Dead again. I've been mad busy since July and a week off is way overdue. Back Sunday, probably.

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Street teams fail to take full advantage of social tools

October 3, 2004

A couple of years ago I remember coming across the Traffic street teams site and thinking that if I had more time, it'd be a cool thing to do. In short, Traffic puts together teams of people who are fans of bands willing to help promote that band in return for 'swag' – gig tickets, […]

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iTunes, MusicBrainz and metadata

October 3, 2004

So, I finally wiped my second hard drive which had – until the Great OS Clean Install of 04 – been my primary HD, and copied all my music files over to it. All my data files, every single one of them, had been copied over the network to another machine before the reinstall, then […]

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Keeping it in perspective

October 2, 2004

Just in case, like Bush, you have been having difficulty, this overview of the C-Span conference should help. (Thanks Euan.)

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OpenZombie – the Shaun of the Dead wiki

October 2, 2004

OpenZombie – go fill it up with Shaun of the Dead stuff. It's what it's there for.

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How long does it take to get a new term into Google and, at the same time, improve your ranking for the search term 'Simon Pegg'?

October 1, 2004

Oooh, less than three days. Three days ago, if you had searched on 'egogooglebombing' you would have come up with no search results at all. Now you get seven. I feel perversely proud of that. If you had, at the same time, searched Google for 'Simon Pegg' you would not have found me anywhere in […]

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Tony Blair's got no bits!

October 1, 2004

Just watching the lunchtime news on the BBC who are reporting Tony Blair's heart op today. The report used a graphic explaining how the surgeons are going to stuff a pipecleaner in his thigh which they will then guide carefully up to his heart in order to then remove the small defect that's causing the […]

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