Script Frenzy
Posted: Thu 18 February, 2010 Filed under: D4D™, Domestic, The '10 Writing Project, Writing Leave a comment »This may be a really really bad idea, but I’ve signed up for this year’s Script Frenzy in April.
The challenge is to write 100 pages of screenplay in the 30 days of April. Should be interesting – assuming I can get my brain and motivation into gear.
Anyway, I’ve signed up, and we’ll see how it goes.
Potential Downtime
Posted: Thu 18 February, 2010 Filed under: General Leave a comment »At some point over the next week, D4D is going to be offline for a while.
I’ve had an email from my hosting company, and they’re going to be moving my account over from the current server to a new one.
With luck it’ll all run smoothly and with no hassles at all. But it might be that things go tits up for a while ’til I fix them.
We’ll see.
Weather Warning
Posted: Wed 17 February, 2010 Filed under: Domestic, News, Weather Leave a comment »All of last night we were getting told about severe weather warnings for Norfolk, that we were going to get heavy snow and ice overnight.
From this story in the EDP (Eastern Daily Press)…
The Met Office is forecasting wintry showers across the region, and has issued a severe weather warning for Norfolk and Suffolk as it believes that rain will turn to snow early on Wednesday with the risk of heavy falls at times.
Road users are being advised to plan their journeys before they set out, check the forecast and road conditions and leave extra time for their journeys if travel conditions are poor.
And this morning, this is what we’ve got…
Yep, that was serious snow. Honest.
Rhyming Slang
Posted: Tue 16 February, 2010 Filed under: Cynicism, News, Politics, Thoughts Leave a comment »On the local news just now, there was a story about Cambridgeshire county council workers protesting against cuts and job losses within the council. (We’ll currently gloss past the fact that a good 50% of the workforce for any local authority are useless workshy cunts – or at least that’s my experience of council work, anyway)
The chant that was being used by protestors was :
“Sack the bankers
Not the workers”
Which isn’t quite rhyming slang – but I assume that “sack the bankers, not the wankers” wasn’t quite the message they were trying to convey…
Membership Change
Posted: Mon 15 February, 2010 Filed under: Cynicism, Politics Leave a comment »One of the more bizarre stories this weekend was about the BNP (British National Party) voting to change its rules on membership, and allow non-whites to be members.
They’ve had to do this as part of an equality ruling – unsurprising, for a racist organisation – but still, it’s pretty damn funny.
Mind you, I’d love to now see a non-white person or two joining the BNP, just to sit in on the meetings, sit there smiling and truly fucking with their heads.
And of course when it gets to the “Send ’em back where they came from” section of the meeting, just asking them if they know how much a ticket to [town of birth] costs.
Hallmark Day
Posted: Sun 14 February, 2010 Filed under: Cynicism Leave a comment »Blah Blah, it’s the day of romance and giving money to Hallmark / Clinton Cards / Interflora.
Me, I’m sticking with the Al Capone way to celebrate…
Sporting
Posted: Sat 13 February, 2010 Filed under: News, Thoughts Leave a comment »Once more it’s time for the Winter Olympics – one of the few sporting occasions where I actually do watch some of the events – and already the luge run has claimed its first victims. Unfortunately in this case one of those lugers has died, which is never good.
I’m always in awe of the people who do the luge, skeleton and (to a slightly lesser degree) bobsleigh. Just the concept of going down a run of solid ice on what amounts to a tea-tray with blades is scary enough, let alone actually doing it.
I hope that there’s no more fatalities in the contest.