Month: December 2002

Not a bad gig at all. More to come after I play more scrabble.

Internet Scrabble Club

Scarily adictive.

Its cold here, somewhere between 0 and 4 degrees. That is just under 40 for you Americans. I am sitting on my bed with the heat on reading some comics. This is a good way I believe to spend a Sunday afternoon. Nothing really stand out in the comics over the past few weeks, some really bad art on Hellblazer turned me off it a bit. Captain Marvel is still working really well. Global Frequency isn’t bad, The Ultimates was ok. The return of The Darkness was a little understated but could be ok. Umm Gotham Central was ok, a decent enough start.

My email is a little fucked up, I can’t send using my new details, I have to send mail through my old details. Hmm will check them at a later date.

Blogger swallowed a post last night, to sum it up last night was quite a bit of fun and fuck there was a lot of talent there.

Last night wasn’t bad at all. Headed to the local straight after work for a couple of quick drinks. Then it was off into town. Met up with lots of people in the pub and then stayed there till we were thrown out. I had a really good night, talking with some good people. Finished off there around 11:30 ish but at that stage wasn’t really on for going on afterwards so a quick McDonalds was called for and let me tell you my quarter pounder with cheese tasted like one of the best burgers I had ever had. Headed home and slept for pretty much 12 hours. I like that I can still do that a couple of weeks later.

Plans for today are pretty much just pick up and read the last month or so worth of comics and then on to the party tonight.

In February I started working on a new project. I struggled with it for quite a while, it didn’t really make sense, it didn’t click. Then one day it did and it all got better.

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been working on some action script stuff. It has been giving me a headache, something completely new and confusing. So a little bit of a struggle recently. Yesterday however it clicked, not completely. But enough. Given enough time I should be able to figure out exactly what I need and get the job done. It was a good feeling when it all made sense.

So next year there is the next version of that first big project coming up and I am looking forward to it, quite a bit in fact. I was talking to someone about this last night and possibilities about it. I realised late last night why I was looking forward to it so much, I know I can do it. It is a complete comfort zone thing. I’ve done one, I still have more to learn but I am pretty sure I can do the next one. I can’t say that about all of my other projects.

Comfort zones…

W E L C O M E to Glenn-Quinn.com

This is an unofficial fan site dedicated to the talented Irish actor Glenn Quinn. This site was built by Glenn’s fans to help publicise his career, provide a place for fans to learn more about Glenn, and meet and get to know one another.

It is with great sadness that we report that Glenn Quinn passed away Tuesday, December 3, 2002. Services for Glenn will be held privately with his family and close friends.

Glenn’s body of work earned him the devotion of fans around the world, and he will most certainly be sorely missed. The staff at Glenn-Quinn.com would like to extend deepest sympathies to his friends and family, and the assurance that through his work, Glenn touched all of us.

He will never be forgotten.

http://www.glenn-quinn.com/

Walk Unafraid is one of my favourite R.E.M. songs.

I went to see a play this evening, Slueth. It was really excellent. I was in the fourth row so I had a really good view. The two leads were excellent, Ian Ogilvy and Jonathan Kerrigan as Andrew and Milo respectivly.. At first I thought they were both overacting but once it all kicked off, it really worked. Given that both actors only started in the play yesterday (which I had not known) I am more than impressed. They played off each other really well and really did the roles justice. They also seemed to be enjoying themselves and this really shone through at the end while taking a bow.

As I mentioned before I had not been to the theatre before except as a kid. I am really glad I went to see this and I shall be keeping an eye out for other plays that might interest and see about them too. I suspect I’ve been a little spoiled because of the good seat I had but the whole expierence was good. More enjoyable than watching a movie and all round cool I guess is the way to describe it. Seeing real people acting mere feet in front of me drove the whole expierence home.

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Its been a day. Work stuff is going on. The words re-org were used again today. I wonder how it will turn out this time.

I had brought the cd-writer home from work to backup everything on my computer so I could reinstall the OS. But its late and I need sleep so it will have to wait till another time. Japan photos are however online.

Whoo hoo. I now work for a profitable company.

*sigh*. I have this urge to write something.

I’ve just been skim reading What the World Thinks in 2002 How Global Publics View: Their Lives, Their Countries, The World, America and it reminded me of something I said in work today. I believe the line was “I know its a generalisation but I hate Americans”. I was reminded of that whilst reading this. What brought this on? Well, it was a couple of emails. Now this was in work mind you. I have this thing about email. Plain text or nothing. I hate getting html email. Sure every now and again I’d live to be able to bold a word but fuck it, I can live without it. Plain text please, no damn smileys no images, no text formatting and certainly no damn email wallpaper.

I got a couple of emails with fucking text formatting, images and damn email wallpaper and it pissed me off. Its all a complete waste. I don’t give a fuck about anything except the content of the email. I needed (well I didn’t but I often do) the information enclosed in the email, I didn’t need the shit that came with it. I can understand (but still hate) this to a degree in personal emails, but for fuck sake these are business emails giving information to people. Its the damn Americans who do it. Ok we have signature nazis and no-one really puts much into their work emails over here but the fucking Americans have to “customize” their motherfucking email and send it on.

Don’t these people know anything about the internet? Don’t they know anything about email? Plain fucking text, how hard is that to understand. Send me a fucking email with text and nothing else damn you.

Thank you for allowing me to vent, I feel a little better now. The first one of you fuckers who decides to send me on email with crap included for the ha ha value will be hearing from me. And yes I planned on using a much harsher word than fuckers but then considered some of the people reading this.

Hmm lots of stuff going on in lots of different areas.

In stuff that I will talk about the last 3 episodes of Buffy were allright. Not great. Good to see the Troika again and some strong stuff from Aly Hannigan. Not so sure the Big Bad is actually going to be any good, but I shall wait and see how that one turns out.

I’m heading to Dublin on Friday week and as it turns out I land around 22:30ish and will be going straight on to the 30th birthday party of one of my cousins. I quite like alot of my cousins and most of them should be there along with loads of other extended family members so that should be quite good.

I did not sleep well last night. That translated into sleeping late this morning, and quite late at that. It was sometime after 10:15 when I actually left the house and I was quite late for work. I did consider not going in as I didn’t feel great after the bad sleep but figured I should. Things are interesting there. I’m working on some Flash and Action Script stuff and I don’t really know what I’m doing. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing as I have a little time to try and figure it out and I am getting there slowly.
I did some work along the lines of what I use to do for the first time yesterday. It was quite refreshing to just sit down and type it out and make it do what I wanted to do. I used some tools I had not used in a while and while I certainly was a little rusty, it was all still with me. I wonder what I can do to use some of that in a more useful way more often. It is a handy skill to keep on top of in this company.

Quite happy with the new hosting company so far, it seems a hell of a lot faster then the previous company and so far no data loss or anything while switching. This is all good.

And from the sounds of things there are a large number of drunk people at the managers dinner in town. I wonder how they guys will be when they get into work in the morning.

The birthday party on Friday sounds like it is shaping up to be a lot of fun and I am starting to look forward to it a lot. Ok so I might be dreading it a little but ah well these things happen. The birthday party on Saturday night should also be quite good and I am looking forward to that too.

Kinda in two minds about David Gray on Sunday. I’m not very impressed with the new album which this tour is promoting. I’ve not even listened to it a second time, nor do I even want to. Hopefully there will be enough of the older stuff to keep me happy during the night. It is on in Earls Court which is about 15 minutes walk from my place so that is not too bad at all.

Oh yes. The first night we arrived in Kyoto, we went up the Kyoto tower hotel to the viewing platform. Its about 60 storeys high and has a nice view over most of the city. It felt a little strange being up there at first and I couldn’t figure out what it was. Then it struck me. The last time I had been up on a viewing platform like that was a couple of years ago when I was in New York City for a couple of days. It was at the top of the World Trade Center. It was quite a strange feeling realising this. Looking out on the city was kinda strange for a moment then the feeling passed and I wandered around. Quite a similar feeling a few days later at the top of the Sunshine 60 building in Tokyo.

A final attempt at moving to Moveable Type shall come soon alongside another new template. Both of which will turn out as badly as usual I expect.

The 3rd Annual 20 Worst People, Places, And Things On The Internet For 2002

looks like normal service has resumed and there are no problems anywhere.
email appears to be up and running fine as does the website. I shall have photo galleries up tomorrow.