Monthly Archives: February 2009

Mind Your Cs and Ks….

Long ago, in some history of advertising, I read that 70s British ad-makers had shorthand codes for the various TV commercial setups. The most-used setup of the time – two women in a kitchen discussing The Product – was called “Two Cs in a K”; ‘K’ standing for kitchen and ‘C’, well….. For some [...]
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Living and Learning….

Who says the internet isn’t educational? Thanks to a thread on Livejournal, I have just learned what the public-school game of soggy biscuit involves. No, I’m not going to tell you – google it for yourselves. And no, you can’t borrow my mind bleach afterwards, I’ve used it all up.
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The Calm After The Storm…

This week wasn’t much fun for me. I was getting stress from all directions, so naturally, I was Not Well. Yesterday, I was supposed to be finishing off the last edition of the hardcopy Transit. But I decided that enough was enough and that I needed to relax. So I went round to [...]
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Cheesed Off Again…

Having got the new online Transit almost ready to upload, I have been told that I’ve got it wrong. Which I didn’t. Originally, I was told that Transit would cease hardcopy publication, but would continue online, with its own dedicated site. So I worked at developing a super-whizzy, Web2.0 online magazine with [...]
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Good News, Bad News….

So I went to see Doc G yesterday. I first told him about my tinnitus and growing deafness. My whole life, I’ve always had very short bursts of noises in my ears – howls, rustling, whines, whistles, even far-away whispering, but they never lasted for more than a minute or so; I assumed [...]
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We Haz Snow!

After watching the news all week and rolling our eyes at the soft southerners, gleefully chortling over the fact that practically no snow has fallen here
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Proof…..

….that I really, really cannot cook. This was supposed to be a buckwheat pancake. All I had to do was measure out the buckwheat flour, mix in some water, cook it briefly in a pan. Simple? Yes! But could I do it? Um, no…
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Wibbling….

…about techie web development matters in this post, so pass over if you’re not interested. Transferring a complete Wordpress blog from one server to another is supposed to be pretty simple – Wordpress has an Import/Export function that makes it almost a one-click operation. Having got the new Wordpress-based Transit site almost complete on my local server, [...]
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I Get Mail….

…but it’s not often like this (the original, sent to my Transit editorial address, is in multi-coloured, bolded, italicised and underlined 16pt Ariel, decorated with a nice picture of autumn leaves): ——-Original Message——- From: CANADA EDMONTON Date: 2/3/2009 1:55:39 PM To: DEVELOPMENT@MUSEUM.TV Subject: Fw: E-MAIL 4 TO PILOT GUIDES ////// LONELY PLANET TV TRAVEL SHOW OF GREAT [...]
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