From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7668477.stm
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has told MPs that plans to extend terror detention to 42 days will be dropped from the Counter-Terrorism Bill.
It follows a heavy defeat for the government in the House of Lords, which threw out the plan by 309 votes to 118.
A very low budget (and black and white) movie which plays more like a collection of related sketches than a full movie story, Clerks is funny none-the-less and worth the effort of watching.
Took the one paragraph plot overview I had and expanded it into around a page (three acts, each act in two sections), and given names at least to 9 characters. That’ll do. I’ll wait until the 1st November now and then just start ploughing through it.
Check me out here when things get going.
I’m telling you this, because the advice from NaNoWriMo is, and I quote,
3) Tell everyone you know that you’re writing a novel in November. This will pay big dividends in Week Two, when the only thing keeping you from quitting is the fear of looking pathetic in front of all the people who’ve had to hear about your novel for the past month. Seriously. Email them now about your awesome new book. The looming specter of personal humiliation is a very reliable muse.
See you in December, and we’ll see if I look pathetic or elated.
If you don’t hear anything from me in November, this is why. Assuming an even word-count-per-day that’s 1667 words per day.
And it’s Leigh’s fault.
Two quick photo’s from the Ireland trip in ’94, first a bunch of us on the Ferry and then a gravestone (because at the time, I took a lot of photo’s of gravestones).
I have two flatbed scanners (assuming you don’t count the defunct all-in-one printer) and several computers. I wonder if it would go faster if I used both?
I guess I’d have to do different sets of photo’s because the scanners give slightly different results.
Edit: Yes, this is what Twitter is for, so shoot me. And I think I won’t double up, it’s sometimes confusing enough with only one scanner on the go.
I’m now scanning random photo’s that never made it into albums and have been sitting in little envelopes or packets for several years. They’re all mixed up, random people, random places, random times. We’ve got loads of envelopes/packets like these, and they don’t usually have many photo’s in them.
This is good, since it makes me feel like I’m making a lot of progress. Scanning an album with 300 photo’s takes so long it’s soul destroying, where-as scanning 20 pictures from an envelope and being able to put it into the ‘done’ box is much more morale boosting.
Hadn’t seen this anywhere until today,
… announced by Robert Llewellyn for Grant Naylor Productions this week at the UKTV seasonal press launch, the project is a short series of brand new specials to celebrate the 21st birthday of Red Dwarf.
Doug Naylor will be masterminding the four half-hour instalments, and the regular cast will all be reprising their iconic roles. They are being made by GNP for UKTV’s free-to-air channel, Dave – our new best friends!
Full details here. But basically, it’s 2 x half hour real new episodes with the original cast, 1 x half hour behind the scenes thing and 1 x half hour ‘clips’ show. Check the article for full info.
Scanning gives me lots of spare time, takes 20 seconds to preview a scan for three photo’s, then 30 seconds to select the three photo areas and then about 4 minutes for it to scan those pictures. I tend to scan about 15 or so, and then save them one at a time as PNG’s. So I have plenty of time while it scans to read the web.
Which means I run out of things to read in Google Reader really quickly.
Which means I’ll probably blog a lot during today while I’m waiting for the scanner to finish a run of three photo’s. Simes has just posted some amazing photo’s he took this morning with his sexy new camera, I’m jealous. Click the image to see the whole set.
As we drove to work on Thursday we passed the canal and really wished we had our camera. There was around a foot of mist rising from the water, it looked incredible. It’s no wonder people believed in spirits and another world when you see some of the things water vapour and light can do.
We’ve started keeping the camera within reach in the house since the cats have a tendancy to get into silly positions and then fall asleep. If we go too far for the camera we wake them up, so within reach means we can preserve their crazyness for ever.