Archive for April, 2005

Play Online Poker!

Monday, April 25th, 2005

Today has been comment spam day. I just had to delete about fifty gibberish comments, all linking to an online poker website. Consequently I’ve installed a spam filter. Let me know if your legitimate comments don’t make it past my new security measures.
Coming soon: metal detectors, shoe searches, magic puffer machines which blow your shirt [...]

Chilled Out

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

Grrrboooaaaaggghhhh! The Big Chill website is down. We’ve been waiting for it to be back up so we can buy our tickets for about a week. We’ve given up. I’m calling their phone booking line tomorrow morning. Whoop-de-whoop for days off.
Anybody know any more than me about this badness? I hope it doesn’t mean the [...]

Email of the Week 18th-24th April

Monday, April 18th, 2005

From Jon:
Fearn and me found a live rat in the bin outside the other day and had to kill it. First I tried hitting it with a pole and then tried smoking it out. Nothing worked so Fearn poured boiling water over it. He’s changed now, has a distant look in his eyes like [...]

The Day of the Cucumber Sandwich (part two)

Sunday, April 17th, 2005

Picnic Day turned out to be more fun than I thought. Having witnessed a pretty half-arsed St. Patrick’s Day parade in Rochester last year, I’ve been apprehensive about parades. As I’ve discovered from watching student films, there’s little entertainment to be had from watching people walking.
Yesterday I discovered I may have been too harsh in [...]

The Day of the Cucumber Sandwich (Part One)

Friday, April 15th, 2005

Tomorrow I’m being hauled into work – missing the televised coverage of Crystal Palace vs Norwich – to help Mishka’s deal with the craziness of Picnic Day. Apparently, everyone who has ever lived in Davis returns to the town for the day to watch a parade and a dachshund steeplechase.
I’m charging the camera batteries as [...]

Dead Blog

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

I really hope this chap does some more updates, but I fear it is a blog as dead as its subjects.
Nil points for spelling and grammar, though. "Mouses," indeed.

Facetiousness: A Poll

Wednesday, April 13th, 2005

In future, should I mark facetious blog posts out with a little [facetious] in the title?
To clear up any misunderstanding that may have occurred after the last post, me and the missus are as perfectly happy as normal, or bumbling along in our own little way, whichever you’d rather imagine.
Must stop now and take my [...]

Media Career? Think Different

Monday, April 11th, 2005

Considering the glut of qualified graduates queuing up for a job in the media, is it any wonder people are getting used? Reading this makes me think that my less conventional approach to breaking into the film and TV industry may actually be the better bet.
‘Exploitation is more widespread than ever’ Media Guardian, 11th April, [...]

Road Trip (again)

Monday, April 11th, 2005

When my old webhost deleted my entire site all the pictures went too. At Rev. Rehash’s request I’ve restored all the pictures that accompanied my road trip diary. If you’re really that interested, click here to begin at the beginning.

Email of the Week 11th-17th April

Monday, April 11th, 2005

This week, Kelvin:
Oh, last night at about two in the morning, there was a bizarre film about a man without a head, who was worried that his lack of bonce would prove to be a hindrance in his love life, so saved up money to buy a noggin, only to discover, of course, that the [...]