Spielberg. Colin, not Steven. Again
I’ve been playing with the video clips we shot yesterday; rearranging the timeline, inserting a couple of bits, removing some bobs. When I was done
Spielberg. Colin, not Steven
We went to Avebury today. To shoot video. Because a bunch of 4,500-year old rocks make excellent video subjects, obv. Well… One 4,500-year old rock
Geeky nerdy cool stuff
I have spent much of today reading journals, updating my technical skills and watching videos, in a work-related way. One of the videos dealt with
Not in my name. Not in my daughter’s name
This is nasty. There are people out there, operating under the guise of one organisation (let’s call it ‘Mediamarch’ who are – and I quote
The weekend has almost ended
I’ve coughed and sneezed so much this weekend that I think I’ve pulled a muscle. Or trapped a nerve. Or pulled a nerve and trapped
Really snow joke
I am playing Scrabble on Facebook with random strangers. I have no life, shoot me now. How did things come to this sorry state of
Nearly back
I am still full of snot and coughs and shit and that. I shall endeavour to return with lolsome wordage and occasional rofling and passably
The view from here is mostly
… pretty damn amazing. This afternoon, after a meeting in the darkest West Country, I drove home using a more cross-country route than the one
Not joined up enough?
We are watching ‘Hitman’ (aka Hitman – Assassino 47, in Brasil), so I might get directed as I write this. Distracted, not directed. We recorded
Toilet excitement!
I went to the toilet today. Look, how am I supposed to try and raise the standard of the writing here, if all you can
An outpouring
I’m, watching Strictly Come Dancing for no reason other than The Manic Street Preachers are performing. The Manic Street Preachers. On Strictly Come Dancing. Strictly
So let me get this right
The British (not English) taxpayer has spent £15,000,000 on a bid to host the world cup, but the corrupt organisation that runs the sport has
What people google…
Amazing. Do you think they meant ‘pooping’? Still amazing though.
You are what you write?
Over at The Magnificent Frog there’s a conversation going on about online presences, social media and the research that employers undertake. There’s a software provider
Thoughts from inside my head
FIFA is the World Governing Body of Football Serious allegations have been made in a television documentary about a number of FIFA delegates including that
Not jealous at all
Soph is doing a webinar which I imagined to be a lecture for baby spiderists. Yes, if you follow me on Twitter you would have
Bit out of it
Not manflu, just a cold. But it got me up at 2.15am with a case of the shivers. So I sat downstairs for a couple
Probably not bad for you
I love the way the cautionary words of the government’s Chief Scientist are either being translated in, or ignored by, the media. What Andrew Wadge
A quick vid
The temperature in the centre of Oxford at 1pm was 2.5c: bracing! And yet these two guys were out doing their stuff:
One story, more than one angle
Students are revolting. Today has seen the second student revolt in a couple of weeks. The first student revolt didn’t go down too well. There
Improving the mobile experience
Those of us who use WordPress as our Content Management System of doom choice will like this (if you haven’t already got hold of it).
Linked Out?
Is there anyone who *gets* Linked In? OK, it’s just another website with connections and, possibly, a privacy functionality far worse than Facebook could dream
Getting better!
Mr Shouting At Cows (who drowns kittens if you don’t read my distinctly average work on his website) showed me a thing to make this
Travelling again
We’ve been up to Herefordshire again. As a direct result of this trip I’m: editing video whilst mixing audio and also writing up the current
Turn on, tune in, crack up
We were in the studio this evening mucking about with music and video stuff. So while we were in there feeling frisky, we recorded tonight’s
Selling Out
I know a likeable, personable, articulate, young (23yo) guy. He is an ideas factory. Concepts come to him as easily as girls didn’t come to
Miles to go, before I sleep
Man, I have done serious travelling in the last few days. Many a kilometre has passed beneath the wheels of my car. This has been
Biter bit, writer writ
I love a good wedding, me. And I love a good funeral. But which is… Sorry, I slipped in to Harry Hill mode for a
And sometimes I have nothing to do
Since July I have been working on a project with a local band. It is a really brilliant project; it is a cause that is
When is something not new?
I had a phone call the other week. It was a sales call. We are ex-directory, unlisted and registered with the Telephone Preference Service, but
Guilty guilty guilty secret
That little critter is my new addiction. It is *gorgeous*. But that’s not the problem. When bought in a ‘value’ pack of eight bars, they
And breathe…
Life’s rich tapestry just keeps on happening, viz: got up at 3am wrote stuff did work-related stuff made breakfast and tea took it upstairs gave
Standing, or brewing?
Regional colloquialisms are the thrombocytes platelets of received pronunciation. Or are they? This thorny question comes because earlier this evening I told Soph that the
Why do they do this?
Soph took me to the Oxford 02 last night; part of my birthday present, bless her. And as if that’s not enough, I was taken
Lazy Sunday afternoon
A total of 1 minute, 8 seconds of heavily edited Video and Audio produced these three short scenes of Witney on Sunday afternoon. The brilliant
Recycling garbage
There’s a thing that we do every Monday morning. Well, sometimes we’d do it on a Sunday night instead. We’d put out the rubbish. No,
Wasting police time
Serial police botherer, Kate McCann, is reported as being ‘Disappointed in the Home Secretary’ for failing to throw even more police resources at what many
I don’t get it
Qantas Chief Executive Alan Joyce has blamed an engine design fault for the well-documented problems with the A380, VH-OQA. But, you know, if it really
Revealing surveys
I love surveys. I love peeling back the layers. I enjoy revealing the motivation behind them. It’s a thrill to reveal the personal psychological profile
And so it begins again
It’s like those ‘seven ages of man’ gags, first documented by Shakespeare in ‘As You Like It’: infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon, and second
New design, new name, same content
Because of the redesign in my TLD at http://brennigjones.com, I felt it was time to give this website a damn good kicking bit of a