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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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Rubber duck epic voyage

July 17, 2003

Thousands of rubber ducks are about to end their 11 year voyage around the world which started when they escaped overboard from a container ship during a storm in 1992. I just hope that when they're washed up in New England, some kind souls will find them a nice hot bath in which to end […]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In this week's New Scientist

July 11, 2003

Can't resist this little nugget from Feedback: Cell biologists aren't other-worldly academics glued to their electrophoresis machines. Oh no, they're in touch with the buzz in the culture – the other one, not the one in the Petri dish. An article by SL Wickstrom, J Keski-Oja and K Alitalo in the June issue of the […]

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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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The Matrix Reloaded at the IMAX

July 10, 2003

Today is IMAX day… 😀 I'll tell you all about it when I get back tomorrow…

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