Lucid Dreaming

As dreaming’s been coming up a lot recently in blogs I read, I thought it might be a good idea to teach you all how to lucid dream. Lucid dreaming is when you know that you’re dreaming, and can control the dream. I seem to recall reading a few years back that the most popular …

Slacktivism

So, apparently Internet Petitions aren’t worth the photons they’re written with. Which might be considered a shame if, like me, you’d signed one recently in an attempt to get a second series of Being Human commissioned. Oops. This phenomenon is known as Slacktivism. It’s like activism, only it doesn’t require you to get your hands …

I’m It

Tagged by Helen. So here are five things about me which other people might think lame, but which make me who I am. 1) I cry at sad stories. Including but not limited to Casualty last Saturday, and the sad song that Jessie sings in Toy Story 2 about how people grow up and grow …

Hammer Time

It was only a few years ago that I found out the truth about Hammer Films. As a youngster, I used to watch their movies as they came on the television late at night. Sex, death, blood, toplessness, and lesbianism. Obviously as a young teen these concepts had no effect on me at all. Hammer …

State of Play

Been a while since I mentioned what I’ve been working on recently… So here they are. Con Anon – Sitcom with Christine PattonDone, dusted, finito. Next thing is to start sending it out to radio producers with a note saying “We are teh funny”. Con Anon has only had one rejection. That’s because we’ve only …

Ah, dammit.

It seems that Joost doesn’t run on Macs without an Intel processor. On the other hand, the BBC’s iPlayer doesn’t run on any Macs at all. So, you know, could be worse. I’m particularly sad about the loss of Joost, because they apparently have episodes of Total Recall 2070. At least for those of us …