One Man's Notes

This is taking too long.

Stuck on the M25

Oooh. New look Vox...

Some nice new features, including the ability to import posts from other systems and media from its existing url. That should be handy.

In other news, I'm back in Suffolk for the day, taking Mum for her latest dose of chemotherapy.

I'm really, really looking forward to having a complete week in the office next week.

Break Like the Wind

Spinal Tap

What song gives you the most holiday cheer?
Submitted by Roxy.

When do you start your holiday shopping?
Submitted by Murphy.

As late as humanly possible. I'm a bit rubbish at this sort of thing, and tend to everything in one afternoon's retail binge.

What's your favorite Thanksgiving dish?
Submitted by Brennan.

Thanksgiving?

Bloody Americans.

Grabbed on my phone.

Open mouse

What were you afraid of as a child that seems silly to you now?
Submitted by navelgazer.

Tron [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

There was a single scene in Tron that terrified me as a 10 year old when I first saw it. The hero of the movie is "shot" with a laser and digitised into the computer. I've no idea why it scared me so much, but I refused to have a computer in my bedroom, until getting my first Mac at university left me no choice.

While that particular fear is pretty much gone, I still get seriously freaked out by what you might call "cyber-horror", where human bodies are partially replaced by mechanical parts. The cyber-conversion scenes in the most recent series of Doctor Who really freaked me out, for example, as did "cyberwoman" from Torchwood.

What's your favorite heartbreak song?
Submitted by esta86.

Here's Where the Story Ends

Tin Tin Out

I Quit

My favourite is probably Here's Where the Story Ends, by Tin Tin Out.

Depending on my mood and the girl in question, Ordinary World by Duran Duran, Locked Out by Crowded House or even I Quit by Hepburn have all been soundtracks to heartbreak for me.

You'll not that my heartbreaks are very mainstream, very pop-y. How very teenage.

This is what some charmer did to my car overnight:

Wing clipped?

Off to see Casino Royale tonight. I'm more excited about this than any Bond film I've seen in years.

You may have noticed that my Livejournal posts have dropped to almost nothing since Vox launched. I'm finding posting there a more satisfying experience.

Well, now I can cross-post to LJ from Vox, so you should be hearing a little more from me.

What song makes you rock the karaoke mic?
Submitted by Ann.

No song does that. I last did karaoke about 14 years ago, and am in no hurry to do it again...

Mum has wanted to go to Sutton Hoo for years. On Sunday we finally went. More pics to follow…

Mum at Sutton Hoo.

The only business mag in the local supermarket is Farmer's Weekly.

How to tell you're in the countryside...

We had our annual Editors Conference in Brighton a couple of weeks ago. I was hoping to pull together some video of the event, but  I had precious little time, as it turned out. So, I've pulled together what I did shoot in this silly little video:

Windows, Mac, Linux - What's your preference and why?
Submitted by ramblingsbymark.

I'm pretty much a Mac man and it's pretty much because they're pretty machines.

I'm actually quite serious about this - I find the aesthetics of the Mac OS and the machine design to be more conducive to productivity than the aesthetics of the Windows environment. Of course, this being an aesthetic judgement, it only holds true for the value of me.

Linux? Waaaay too techie for me.

What's your dream career? 
Submitted by Something.

Oh, probably as a multi-media reporter given the freedom to travel, and cover stories with words, pictures and movies as I saw fit. And the freedom to go out and find those stories for myself.

What I'm doing right noiw comes a pretty close second…