Archive for July, 2004

Boogie

Saturday, July 31st, 2004

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Thursday night was the MacUser night out which inevitably meant some pounding heads yesterday morning (Friday). As we all say around slowly stirring our tea and nibbling half-heartedly on corners of toast we went over the night before.
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Bowing out

Thursday, July 29th, 2004

According to this story in the Guardian, Pierce Brosnan has quit the Bond films.
Hmmm… if he has it’s a bad thing, but then Roger Moore apparently quit after pretty much every film. They were even looking for a new Bond before The Spy Who Loved Me, which was only his third outing. Quitting and then […]

Barbra is unwell

Monday, July 26th, 2004

I think it’s the excitement of having come in to London with me every day for the last week, but Barbra, my iBook is clearly unwell this evening.
She seems to be having some kind of a disco thing going on, with her screen overlaid three times on top of itself and a hundred horizontal bars […]

Sunday too soon

Sunday, July 25th, 2004

Time seems to be flying by at the moment. Already it’s Sunday. The next will be my last before doing away.
This weekend, though, has been a mix of work and fun. Most of yesterday was spent writing, and without any distractions I burnt through several thousand words in a fairly short space of time, which […]

Looking forward

Thursday, July 22nd, 2004

Two weeks (and a day) from now I’ll be off on holiday. It’ll be my first break in ten months - the longest stretch between holidays for years - and I can’t wait. These last few days I’ve been getting up at six so I can do a couple of hours’ work before going into […]

King Arthur

Monday, July 19th, 2004

Take the battle scenes from Lord of the Rings, the underlying plot of Gladiator, and mix in a dash of Robin Hood, and what do you have?
King Arthur, which goes on general release at the end of the month.
Oh, and get Clive Owen to play the lead, too, just to spoil it. He was terrible. […]

Basildon Bond

Sunday, July 18th, 2004

Basildon today, which I’ve studiously avoided for the last 8 years. It’s two steps short of being Lakeside, which is three steps short of being Bluewater, which in itself is a short stroll shorter than being somewhere decent, but traffic jams on the M25 made crossing the river a slow and tedious chore, so […]

Wombling free

Saturday, July 17th, 2004

The end of the week was a long time coming, which made today all the more welcome. In fact, I think it was a pretty long week for us all, largely on account of the fact that we were listening to David Hasselhoff, which is pointless as only Germans can hear it. Kind of like […]

Needing sleep

Thursday, July 15th, 2004

I feel completely worn out at the moment. I am so behind on my emailing (sorry, Stina, sorry Kev, sorry all), and have been very remiss on the blogging front these last few days.
It all started last weekend. I had a bucket-load of work all neatly planned out, but then this happened and that, and […]

Bond-land

Tuesday, July 13th, 2004

Anyone who knows me knows I’m a James Bond geek. I must have seen them all a hundred times each. So, the offer of a trip to Pinewood, where all but Moonraker was filmed, was too good to pass up. And so it was that I found myself in a 20-seater limo cruising far too […]