I love this film! Watching it last night gave me more new insights into some of the metaphors and meanings in the film. And that car, that car is a work of art in itself…
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Vanishing Point
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Empowerment
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Does the apostrophe cause you to lose your nerve? Never again with this handy reference ! At last I feel I can take control of this grammatical black spot.
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Paris
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Amazing city. And that metro system puts the London underground to shame. Trips on the Paris Metro of the same duration as what I take in London felt much shorter. This is due to the noise on the tube. The tube screeches and squeals through the heat whereas the trains I used in Paris ran on tyres, and the effect is a smooth quiet ride. The Metro felt much cleaner, everything on the tube is coated with a layer of carcinogenic brake dust. Combined with the heat, no wonder my stress level on the tube is so high.
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Paris, city of light
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This is the space ship Cygnus from the Disney film ” The Black Hole “. I think that a designer might have been inspired whilst in Paris?
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Small steps complete the journey
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At the moment I’m trying to spend half an hour a day on the site sorting out design issues. I think it’s a good idea not to be too ambitious. It is just a matter of how long I will be able to keep it up, and if I’ll get all the necessary changes made within that time. Today I fixed a HTML validation issue. Not that the site validates (due to system generated URLs), but I removed an issue with divs (easily fixed – I forgot that I had to use divs with unique ids). Then I added the ‘star link’ over on the right there. A quick, randomly generated link. Making that the basis of the links page is the mission for the next spare half hour.
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Paris when it sizzles?
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Off to Paris tomorrow. I haven’t been there before and I’m looking forward to it, as long as we can avoid death by heat wave I guess. The ‘sights’ I can think of off the top of my head that I really want to see are:
- The Eiffel Tower
- Arc du Triomphe
- The Louvre
- Notre Dame
My friend (also called Ben) is living in Paris and I’m sure will make an excellent tour guide….
Yeah! I just found out that our hotel is next to the freaking Eiffel Tower! I guess that takes care of number one.
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SaveMeOptions
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Talk about being a dick. When I was scrambling to get the new design up on Saturday (I’d been sitting on it for months) I was having trouble saving documents (Notes/Domino people probably know where this is going). I was stumped. It turned out after what seemed like hours that I had a ‘SaveOptions’ field that was doing what it was told, in this case, don’t save the documents. The field was in a subform and was on almost every form I was testing. Great for all my $$ViewTemplates but not so good on blogs and the like. I couldn’t believe how obvious the problem was. I only figured it out after comparing a form that was working with one that wasn’t…. I guess that I’m getting a little rusty.
Hey Lotus – how about a ‘SaveMeFromBeingADumbArse’ field in 6.5?
Listening to The Throwing Muses. They take the edge off.
