Month: February 2003

Today I went to the Technology for Marketing show at Kensington Olympia with Jeremy. All the previous exhibitions I’ve been to have all been purely technology based (well, except for the Ideal Home Show which doesn’t really count!) and so it made a change to see a show which targets a specific sector. The exhibition seemed to be mainly full of businesses offering direct marketing services, CRM services or search engine placements. We found one company who were doing something similar to Fluid Network and so we had a long chat with them.

And just for the record, the best conference freebies were a red stress frog, and a light-up pen.

Does anyone happen to have a copy of January’s Outdoor Photography Magazine that I could beg, borrow or steal from them? Apparently there is an article reviewing tripods that I’d like to get my hands on. Ta!

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This was taken from the car on Sunday night as we drove back from Margate. Just thought it was fun!

I’ve been a fan of Terry Gilliam films
for a while,
although he’s perhaps more famous for the not
making films, or almost making films, or maybe for film
studious worrying about the films he makes with huge
piles of their money. While trying
to track down the DVD version of Brazil, I spotted
the following on the Terry Gilliam Fanzine:
“Lost in La Mancha gains BAFTA nomination”. Turns out
that Lost in La Mancha
is the documentary of the making of his film, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote that failed to be
made (did that make any sense?). Lost in La Mancha was apparently released
in August 2002, and should be on DVD by the end of the month (view the trailer).

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So, it’s not enough that the West Pier is slowly collapsing into the sea, but the Palace Pier had to get in on the act too. Last night, one of the fair rides caught on fire, and blazed into the night sky (apparently – I didn’t hear anything about it until 10pm or so by which time it was all out). I cycled off this morning to take a look and the pier generally still looks intact. The Police said that they thought that only the Ghost Train and the Helter Skelter had been damaged, and that all the structures still seemed to be ok, although they needed the engineers to come and check it out.

We went to meet Paul and Tess‘s new baby last night in the hospital. I think that Max is the youngest baby I’ve ever met (he was just over a day old) and it made a nice change to be going to a hospital for a nice reason, and in fact I think it’s the only time I’ve ever been visiting to a hospital for a birth rather than some illness or ailment or other.

Afterwards, we headed off to the Earth, Moon and Stars pub for a Virtual Festival meeting. The Virtual Festival is run during May (same time as the Brighton Festival) and tries to introduce new technologies to the community, via multimedia days, and the like. We thought we’d offer our services and see how we could help.

Grrrr…. I’ve been using the search facility on my (newly xp’d) pc a lot this morning, desperately trying to find a function in one of my source files. I knew it was there, as the code works, but I couldn’t find it. I was using the “A word of phrase in the file” search and it was bringing back no results. So, I googled it and found this. Apparently source code files aren’t very “relevant” and so those helpful people at M$ have removed them from the search so as not to “pollute” the results. Thanks for that then!