After all that bleating on about how I need to post more, I’ve admirably succeeded in not doing so. This is mostly to do with playing God, looking for work and looking after a sick child. There’s plenty of stuff building up in the drafts folder though. Maybe later depending on how [...]
Archive > February 2007
And the winner is…
So, Best Original Screenplay Oscar goes to Little Miss Sunshine.
This is definitely one of those “I told you so” moments.
Little Miss Sunshine (USA, 2006)
If you get a chance to see this film before sunday’s Oscars ceremony, do so. That’s pretty much the recommendation I can make about this deeply dark and humourous film. I had heard good things about it but confess that I hadn’t realised it had scooped a fair haul of BAFTAs recently, including [...]
Final Run
If I ever wrote a film about an alien invasion the script I wrote about an alien invasion of earth ever got made into a film, Paul Gascoigne is the second last person I’d ever permit to play the lead male role. The last would be Squeaky Voice Beckham.
If, on the other hand, they [...]
Problems with Embedded Objects
(This may be the beginning of something that should spawn into a seperate blog. It’s also of no interest to anyone but myself and other Domino developers. In fact, I could be the only Domino developer on the planet who couldn’t suss this but just in case…)
I’ve been trying to extact file attachments [...]
Nike+ Challenge
I’m always up for a challenge. (That’s “always” as in “sometimes, and only on my terms”).
Gordon’s recently suggested one that I’d normally take to like a carrion crow to an eyeball and is a pretty straightforward “how many miles can you run in a month?” Admittedly, I haven’t run in 3 [...]
Absence makes the heart grow colder
Lack of impetus and lots of work/househunting/jobhunting/parental duties/video watching has lead to a dearth of updates. Live with it.
One word film reviews:
Cars: Marvellous
Little Miss Sunshine: Hysterical
Children of Men: Anachronistic.
Tip for the day:
Brandy and Orange Juce is palatable. Sherry and Orange Juice isn’t.
Lyric of the week:
“I feel like I could rape a nun”
Current hypochondriac [...]
Creationism
On the fourth day, God said “Where are the backups kept?”
And lo, the minions around him replied “Backups, Lord?”
And God said “Yes. Backups. You know, of this highly confidential and business critical data that you’ve got on this server. You do have backups don’t you?”
“Ah. Well, the thing is…” responded the [...]
This is the day!
Another year over and what have I done
All my aspirations have shriveled in the sun
I don’t normally mention it but today is to me what yesterday was to Adrian. I was looking forward to some Hot Fuzz but as I’m working, that will have to wait. Oh well. Steak and chips for [...]
Bandwagon
I haven’t really got into the whole MySpace thing. It reeks of “sellout” to me. Perhaps it’s techy/blogger snobbery but it’s a subculture that’s not quite niche enough for me to be into. On account of, you know, the world and her dog having a myspace page. I quite frankly don’t feel [...]
