Archive - May 2006

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Dunfermline Dramatic Society

May 19th and 20th in the Carnegie Hall Annexe Studio sees Dunfermline Dramatic Society's latest production. Two plays by David Tristram, "Forget Me Knot" and "The Extraordinary Revelations of Orca the Goldfish".

After last years very traditional shows, these two complimentary plays mark a new venture for the society. Both shows mix themes of adult life, using the language and references necessary to portray them with superbly timed comic observation.

Writing is progressing apace on the Cossmass serialised audio drama. However, I can't update my word count totals yet, for two reasons. All the writing is still in my notebook, so I can only give a rough guess at about 4,500 words. None of it is actually the body of the story. It has all been fleshing out the arc of the series.

I'm getting a much better picture of the characters and what is motivating them, so I am not complaining.

I've done enough writing for tonight. That and my pen has run out of ink.

I've updated the header to replace that chilly winter treeline with a refreshing spring forest shot. I've been out walking in Devilla Forest a lot again and it feels very appropriate.

The picture, by Alabama photographer Marianne Venegoni, was found at everystockphoto.com.

I was going to make that subject read '--of the Day' but I really don't want to think that I might have that many of them.

So I have this new TV. In my house. A TV. And I have all these video media files on my PC. Now it's a 17" monitor, which until today was a CRT. With a dodgy brightness control. More a sort of darkness-control. So all these video media files. And a new TV. There has to be a way that I could watch them on the TV. Well of course there are.

Method one: burn a DVD. Nope. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but it just won't work.

If you have used Firefox in the last day you will have noticed that 1.5.0.3 has been released. I'm glad to say that this release appears to have fixed the one bug-bear that I had with Firefox. It doesn't swamp the processor when it loads Google Mail. I had been getting so hacked of that I was using Epiphany for GMail.

From this week's Slice of Sci-Fi: Ronald D. Moore has been given the go-ahead from the Sci-Fi Channel to create a spin-off series from Battlestar Galactica called Caprica. The show will be a prequel, which raises awkward questions as to how they will draw in the audience to care about the characters given that we know they will almost all die during the Cylon attack. I look forward to seeing how they do that.