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Silence In The World
Sep. 4th, 2006 08:33 pmI'll have to get a whole new list of bloggers, because my current bunch are being remarkably quiet at the moment.
I would have more to say for myself, but life conspired today to make everything impossible. People wonder when a GH is coming out. At the moment, I wonder when I'll find the energy to write my name, let alone an issue of a zine.
Of course, it isn't helped when your IT department seems intent on conspiring to stop you accessing the outside world. This morning it was impossible to access Bloomberg, Forbes, Finspreads, III, Individual.com and Live Journal, and heavens knows what else (this is on top of the filtering used to stop access to anything gambling-related). By 2.35 this afternoon IT said that it had "resolved" the problem. To give you an example of the level of literacy that we have amongst senior people in an IT capacity in what is theoretically a publishing company, I quote it verbatim:
"The internet routing issues we had this morning have now been resolved, the problem was caused by a third party company who provide our "link to the outside world" and was effecting both Websites & Email".
Depending on your level of fussiness, you could find one, two, three, four or five errors there, which isn't bad going for 36 words. A sub-editor would make six corrections, by the way; I leave you to your idler moments to decide what they might be.
But, hell, he was probably under pressure, so that's okay, then, isn't it?
Actually, I could have forgiven any number of grammatical errors if the whole thing hadn't gone wrong in the first place. Blaming an external company just doesn't really hack it, does it? Or is that what IT people do automatically?
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On happier matters, there were a couple of hidden gem movies on TV at the weekend. "The Goonies" was directed by Chris Columbus in 1985 and is well worth a visit or a revisit (depending on your age). I fear that I have a kind of Richard Herring problem here in fancying Martha Plimpton in 1988 (for Herring the instance is Jenny Agutter in, er, 1974 I think). However, recent pictures of her (Plimpton) show that not much has changed. And, well, any female from the Carradine family is OK by me.
The second move was "Rennt Lola", also known as "Run, Lola, Run". Parked away by Channel Four at 2.15am, this masterpiece of alternative realities stars the woman who went on to feature in the Bourne series (Franka Poente?). The film (made in 1999) throws the kitchen sink at cinematographic techniques. Its only failure is using the plot device of a conveniently placed casino when the hero or heroine of the movie is in desperate need of money. I tell you, if casinos paid out 1000-to-1 shots at anywhere near approaching the percentage that they do in movies, there wouldn't be any casinos left. (And if it isn't the casino, it's the lottery.)
But, that minor quibble aside, the film is an absolute joy. If it ever gets shown at a sensible time, try to catch it.
I would have more to say for myself, but life conspired today to make everything impossible. People wonder when a GH is coming out. At the moment, I wonder when I'll find the energy to write my name, let alone an issue of a zine.
Of course, it isn't helped when your IT department seems intent on conspiring to stop you accessing the outside world. This morning it was impossible to access Bloomberg, Forbes, Finspreads, III, Individual.com and Live Journal, and heavens knows what else (this is on top of the filtering used to stop access to anything gambling-related). By 2.35 this afternoon IT said that it had "resolved" the problem. To give you an example of the level of literacy that we have amongst senior people in an IT capacity in what is theoretically a publishing company, I quote it verbatim:
"The internet routing issues we had this morning have now been resolved, the problem was caused by a third party company who provide our "link to the outside world" and was effecting both Websites & Email".
Depending on your level of fussiness, you could find one, two, three, four or five errors there, which isn't bad going for 36 words. A sub-editor would make six corrections, by the way; I leave you to your idler moments to decide what they might be.
But, hell, he was probably under pressure, so that's okay, then, isn't it?
Actually, I could have forgiven any number of grammatical errors if the whole thing hadn't gone wrong in the first place. Blaming an external company just doesn't really hack it, does it? Or is that what IT people do automatically?
+++++++++
On happier matters, there were a couple of hidden gem movies on TV at the weekend. "The Goonies" was directed by Chris Columbus in 1985 and is well worth a visit or a revisit (depending on your age). I fear that I have a kind of Richard Herring problem here in fancying Martha Plimpton in 1988 (for Herring the instance is Jenny Agutter in, er, 1974 I think). However, recent pictures of her (Plimpton) show that not much has changed. And, well, any female from the Carradine family is OK by me.
The second move was "Rennt Lola", also known as "Run, Lola, Run". Parked away by Channel Four at 2.15am, this masterpiece of alternative realities stars the woman who went on to feature in the Bourne series (Franka Poente?). The film (made in 1999) throws the kitchen sink at cinematographic techniques. Its only failure is using the plot device of a conveniently placed casino when the hero or heroine of the movie is in desperate need of money. I tell you, if casinos paid out 1000-to-1 shots at anywhere near approaching the percentage that they do in movies, there wouldn't be any casinos left. (And if it isn't the casino, it's the lottery.)
But, that minor quibble aside, the film is an absolute joy. If it ever gets shown at a sensible time, try to catch it.
