Month: May 2002

Friday Five

Friday Five

1. What’s the last vivid dream that you remember having?
Last night, my first dream in ages. Was being interviewed for a job for a computer game company, and I had to complete the game to get the job. Anne Robinson was the interviewee and the game was Pitfall I think…

2. Do you have any recurring dreams?
Not that I am aware of no.

3. What’s the scariest nightmare you’ve ever had?
Probably something when I was a kid, the scariest recently was dreaming about a snake slithering into our bed past my head. At the same instance my beloved wife decided to move her hand and it brushed the side of my head. AARGH! Sat bolt up right in a blind panic before I realised what had happened. She didn’t wake at all needless to say….

4. Have you ever written your dreams down or considered it? Why or why not?
I think I’ve mentioned them in passing on here, but never really considered them a valid enough to write down. Every dream I can remember I can dissect and pin-point where most of the components came from (Last nights was the result of revisiting the BBC’s IQ Test website, the programme was hosted by Anne Robinson; The interview was from Friends, Chandler went for an interview; and Pitfall is my wife’s favourite ‘old’ game)

5. Have you ever had a lucid dream? What did you do in it?
Hmmm don’t think so no. I do have dreams when I know I’m having a dream, but nothing more than low-level lucidity I think.

Friends are…

The people who point out your flies are undone.

Proofread

I recently passed on a piece of knowledge that I was given by a previous boss. I was a young eager thing with no real mind of what I was doing. I would throw a document together and punt it out to the world without so much as a second thought, not advisable when you are a Technical Author. Nevertheless it was my first real job and I really wasn’t THAT sure what I was doing (still not that sure now).

Anyway, I came across a website tonight, read through it’s blog page and thought to myself “That person could do with that piece of advice”. So here it is:

“Always re-read”

Simple, huh. Then why doesn’t this bloke do it? The man’s an idiot, obviously.

How to…

Title a blog

OK not really but I do like this one: Positively Mental.

Not sure about all the pink, but that’s because I’m a boy I think and prefer blue of course, but well put together, cleanly designed and, most of all, well written.

Definitely to be added to my daily(ish) list of visits.

West Side Story

Or why “I like to be in America”

Reason #14: NBA.

I’ve mentioned this before I’m sure, but I REALLY miss my NBA since it moved to Sky Sports Extra here in the UK. As a Telewest customer I can’t get the channel at all. The time I spent in San Francisco was great, I actually had the choice of which game to watch, unbelievable!

Anyway, things are getting tense in the Conference Finals, my ‘showtime’ team are being held the Kings in what looks like being a tight series. Granted I can get a lot of info from the web, but as the NBA is very rarely covered here in the UK I miss all the little extra’s you get from news bulletins, et al.

In saying that, I’m confident the Lakers will brush past the Kings and into the final, I mean if the Kings coach can be heard to say “I just wish one of them would grow four inches” in connection to his two active guards they are obviously the weaker team. Now if someone could just knobble Chris Webber I’d be much happier…

Note: I’m actually very happy with Telewest, especially the nice people at BlueYonder, but PLEASE GET SKYSPORTS EXTRA!!!

Screen Saver

I downloaded this one ages ago after picking up the link from k10k. Lots of screen saver goodness for your PC or Mac.