Steven Moffat, Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg? How can Tintin possibly be anything but everything it should be.
I won't be holding my breath but I will cross my fingers - this one seems to have been an eternity in the making.
I'm not entirely sure what I've been doing in the week since I last posted. An awful lot of work that's for sure - the results of which will make themselves public soon enough. I have fallen behind with my own projects though. I guess a few late nights will fix that soon enough though I'm not sure how much later I can get without just running 24/7 all the time.
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Back on the Virgin Express again today. I wonder if somebody has ever knocked up a graph that shows exactly how much creative writing gets done on a train. There are lots of people with id cards on strings on board today - this must be in case they forget who they are. The Man always likes to remind the automatons of their place.
I had the opportunity to sit down with a very clued in somebody today and spent some time figuring out exactly how much work Facebook could do for a project. Quite a lot apparently if you get it right. I even considered for a moment resurrecting my Zodiac Lung page over there but instead came across an cross-bred app that goes by the name of Networked Blogs that hooks into Facebook pretty seamlessly as far as I can tell. Let's see exactly how syndicated and networked we can get. So far so good.
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A few months back, I bought this great "road bag" from Scaramanga. Cost me a fair few crispy ones too but I love it. It had to be big enough to cater for a weekend trip so I opted for the larger option of those available. It's getting good and battered now but damn, for a shoulder bag affair, it's freaking heavy. I thought I had really crunched down on the amount of stuff I had packed this time, but it seemed just as heavy as ever. I guess a MacBook and an external hard drive with all of their associated power cables and leads mount up. Throw in a book and some pens and I've not really cut down on very much at all.
So, the question is, how do I cut down on what is already a minimised amount of essentials.
Given that when I'm away, I don't really ever do heavy duty InDesign or Photoshop work, maybe an ipad with a dump into a dropbox account is the answer. Or, could I actually get away with just working on the iphone? Maybe that's a bit extreme. Possible, but extreme. Maybe I'll give it a try next time. What would be really helpful is if the train carriages were packed with USB sockets for charging stuff up - somebody really needs to get that into development.
