January 2011
15 posts
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Buried
One of the things which can turn a good movie into a great one is the soundtrack.
Likewise, one of the things which can turn a good movie into a steaming pile of manure, is the soundtrack.
Buried fits into the latter category: the premise, and the dialog were both compelling, the problem being that when the dialog really matters all you can hear is the melodramatic soundtrack.
Whoever scored...
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in the dark of night every atheist half believes
Quote: Edward Young (or Frank Gallagher)
Now I’m not a religious person, in fact most of the time I think it’s complete bunk. But I’m not an atheist, never have been. Denying anything to the point of absolute certainty is just plain impractical, given how often new discoveries are made and the world is turned anew.
So what do I believe? I often wonder myself, as I know...
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Answer your emails please!
I send quite a lot of emails, and sometimes end up sending them to people who don’t ‘particularly’ like me.
This is usually because someone (or sometimes many people) using one of my tools or websites has specifically requested something which requires me to contact these other people.
I just wanted to mention… sometimes a “No” is fine. I’d even settle...
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The Life of a Cat...
Oh sometimes I wish I was a cat. Sleep all day, sleep all night, eat when you’re hungry, and have your own tiny door which don’t even need to worry about whether you’ll lose the key if you have a bit too much ‘nip.
And you get to be REALLY cute all the time, and if you’re somehow managing to have a bad day you can scratch people and they just put it down to you...
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Be pessimistic, sometimes.
I release new products, ranges, software or other stuff quite often, I’m one of those people who has to have 100 projects on the go at any one time.
When I first started out with my own business, every release or every new project was ‘going to change the world’, or at least my small part of it… but one thing you learn when you’re running your own business, is that...
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As tall as a field-mouse on stilts giving a...
Ever notice in newspapers, magazines and blogs, that there are always some pretty strange units of measurement to describe the size of things?
Presumably this is an effort to make the size ‘relatable’ for the average idiot who doesn’t know how big 75 meters (67.5 yards) is… Well that’s roughly the size of 15 double-decker buses, or the distance of a 1 hour crawl...
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Sorry for my poor [insert-language]
Please don’t apologise for your ‘poor english’.
It’s far far better than my russian, polish, german, italian, french, spanish, hungarian, svensk, or any other language except english.
I get quite a lot of emails from russia and poland (where a lot of stock photographers are) and almost all of them apologise for their english. Please don’t, I understand, and if I...
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Things I don't care about...
Football: what a load of pointless twaddle. Playing it is fine, great, fun even, but who won what cup, when and who scored how many goals. Which footballer sleeps with prostitutes or just crashed his ridiculously expensive car… I just frankly don’t give a shit. My only football knowledge is that Uruguay won the first world cup, and I don’t even care about that.
Boring people:...
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Things I care about...
My friends and family: first and foremost. Offend, affront, insult or injure them in any way and I won’t be nice to you.
My freedom. I like my lifestyle, and despite the fact I only earn enough to get by on, I’m not a status-junkie, so I’m happy with my freedom.
Christmas. Christmas is awesome, not because I’m crazy religious or anything, and Christmas shopping is a...
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The National Lottery
Why does anyone play the national lottery? Euro lottery? lottery bundles? Euro-raffle?
Granted when it first started, it was a bit of fun, but there are people who’ve ploughed hundreds, if not tens of thousands of their hard-earned cash into the vaguely remote chance that they ‘might’ win a couple of million.
“It could be yooouuuuu…” says the big finger in the...
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Christmas Tree, oh Christmas Tree...
I should have taken my christmas tree down by now I know. Surely it should be up 12 days before christmas and taken down by 12 days after, but hey, I like it.
Granted I don’t want to be ‘that guy’ come july, you know… ‘that guy’ who still has his christmas lights up, but really, is there anything sadder than the space in the living room where the christmas...
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Pet peeves: An hotel...
This is an annoyance:
I visited an hotel
I ate an ham
I own an hamster
I wear an hat
Yes yes, I know… for some (possibly most) english-speakers, the leading h is silent when spoken aloud, but when written it is ‘a hotel’, ‘a ham’, ‘a hamster’, ‘a hat’. It’s a consonant, and until it becomes a vowel, please, I am begging you, treat it...
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I'm... Feeling... Sleepy... Not!
I’ve always found sleep quite intriguing; we all spend between a quarter and a third of our entire lives doing it, both us humans, and every other species, yet it seems to offer no obvious evolutionary benefit (something I’m surprised the intelligent design nutcases havn’t jumped on).
Yes, ok, it allows our bodies time to regenerate lost cells and our brains some downtime away from our...
Alcohol... what's the point?
The UK has a big drink problem. Let me rephrase that: the UK has a MASSIVE drink problem. Why?
Is life here so f&$king miserable that people just feel the need to blow out what remains of their teeny-tiny brains and escape to a world where they are king, and everyone else is a mere peon?
Are people so f£$king stupid that they don’t realise that binge drinking is so incredibly bad for...
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December 2010
3 posts
New Year Resolutions
1) Improve my websites.
2) Make enough money that I don’t have to worry about whether I’ll meet my rent next month.
3) Blog a bit more, it’s fun.
4) Finish writing one of my books.
5) Continue to be happy :)