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I hope I get to see The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy original cast at...
Update: I never got to see it – the ticket prices were getting silly and more pressing matters took over. Oh hum..Since I was about 7 or 8, I’ve been hooked on Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide To The...
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Librarians versus Predator (publishers)
With the news that Neil Gaiman has just signed a new contract with HarperCollins (prop. Rupert Murdoch), reminded me of something that I read a while back about HarperCollins’ (and to a greater extent...
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Run for the (Hollywood) Hills: a new erotic novel set in the film industry
Malcolm is a visual effects artist from Canada.He starts working at Big Bastard Visual Effects, Inc. in Santa Monica, California as a supervising animator, being paid a good rate for the long hours...
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6-year old kid attempts to work out book plots by only looking at their covers..
This is wonderfully entertaining. Via Pleated Jeans comes this golden nugget of surrealism in which a 6 year old child looks at a book cover and attempts to work out the plot.My favourites? Jayne Eyre:...
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Waterstones: You must be THIS famous to sign your books here..
News reaches me from at least two authors (both very reputable, lovely people) who have said that the bricks ‘n’ mortar book giant, Waterstones, will be changing their policies as to how authors...
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Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird.. has arrived!
This is probably the only physical book I’ve personally purchased since 2010/11 – everything else has been in e-book form (either Kindle or the abomination that is the Apple iBook store):I shall look...
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While I have always enjoyed writing..
.. bashing out thoughts and ideas and all manner of silliness, my grammar could certainly do with some improvement. Especially if I am to prepare screenplays for presentation professionally.So I’ve...
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It’s Roald Dahl Day.. and what better way to celebrate than to propose a new...
.. of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?Sure, I thoroughly enjoyed John August’s adaptation of Charlie that Tim Burton directed (and given I worked on it, doubly so). But it strikes me as odd that...
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I love the BBC, but..
.. enough with the international co-prouductions featuring more finance partners than a Soho “working girl” (too harsh? Probably.)I was thoroughly hacked off that in order to get Jonathan Strange &...
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Downsizing the iPad – an iPad mini review
My two year old[1] work iPad 2 has been a great addition to my iFamily[2], but the thing weighs a ton when you’re trying to read books, magazines, etc. for anything other than 10-15 minutes. After that...
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The Secret Service
Looks like Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn’s adaptation of Mark Millar’s The Secret Service (just look at that cast list – just look!) is shooting mere yards away from where I work. Update (1st...
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Remember, remember, the 1st of Movember
Update: I failed. Absent-mindedly shaved it off a few days ago. Bah. Next year? Luckily nobody pledged at the time.Oh dear. So I’m actually going to do it.I’m going to grow a ‘tache for the month of...
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NOW TV Box – a cheap way of getting Sky Movies and Sky Atlantic, but with...
Update: I’ve since upgraded to a Roku 3. You can read all about it here.As I’m about to put my Apple TV and LG BP630 Blu-Ray on eBay having replaced them with the PS3, I decided to fork out £9.99 on...
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The dangers of easy-to-manage web hosting
Unfortunately I got into a bit of an argument with somebody today about the management of their cPanel server. As a sysadmin of over 17 years – starting my career by setting up an ISP from scratch...
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The Duck’s Speech
(Cue Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, 2nd movement (allegretto))Wow. What a year. They say 13 is unlucky for some, and in many ways this has been the case for me and my family. Or least former family. If...
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The Power of Love
Last night I came home around 17:30 to find that most of the houses along my street were in complete darkness. We had suffered a power cut.It turns out, having called the UK PowerNet, that a fault had...
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Retro computing!
Christmas is a time for revisiting the past. One only has to see all those women out and about wearing their big Christmas jumpers with leggings, and to listen endlessly to all the Christmas pop music...
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I’ve got a brand new combination microwave..
.. and I’ll give you a beep. For years I’ve been without a microwave. Really never needed one, or so I thought.When I was married we had a microwave in the first flat that we rented, then there was a...
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Rocking the Roku, but LOVEFiLM doesn’t feel like partying
While I have mentioned that the PS3 is an excellent all-round multimedia device, the downside is that it is hard drive based and therefore takes a while to boot up and get going, etc. And to get the...
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Goldilocks not happy with Costa porridge..
As spotted this morning during my daily consumption of mocha.
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