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Theatre Skills for Adults Showcase: All Their Own Work

This vivacious group return once more for an evening of pieces they have lovingly created. From the early stages of simply staring at the dreaded blank page to the last night and the post show blues, you can join the creative journey as it heads to it’s final destination. A rollercoaster of an evening is on offer with some of the best new work in town.19:45 Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Courtyard Centre for the Arts, Hereford - Studio £2

This is looking to be a good evening. We are in the midst of rehearsals now, after all writing our own piece. Style and theme vary greatly, from the tragic to the comic to the unnerving… but I am sure that you will laugh, cry and be challenged by these pieces.

Come and see us - only £2 - Bargain at twice the price!

On Monday I woke up full of plans for the day - only to find my PC wouldn’t boot. Aaargh. A quick look in the BIOS showed - or rather didn’t show - one of my hard disks to be unrecognised. OK - now’s a good time to kick myself for not organising some sort of backup…

So with feelings of dread - I set about trying to see just how much of a mess my hard disk was in. Case open - seemed to be spinning - so something was happening…

Ok let’s try a linux boot CD, see if we can see anything from there… nope.

Ok lets try a parition magic boot disk and see what we get? success, I can see the drive and I can see the partitions. I run a few checks which all report OK. next step then is to get a new drive - then I should in theory be able to copy the partitions into the unallocated space and - fingers crossed - all should be well.

I bought a new disk, got it home, opened it. Doh! should have read the label on the box more carefully, I had a SATA not a PATA drive (I had never noticed that IDE had been renamed!). Took it back, got the IDE drive, popped it in the machine, fired up partition magic and - after several hours copying the partitions the data is all there and good. Now I just have to write a new master boot record for the drive and all will be well.

Oh yeah, and I had to set a flag in windoze registry to allow LBA-48 so that windoze would see all 320GB of the new drive.

Not normally being one to forward office e-mail jokes indiscriminately, it comes as a nice change to feel as though you are a hand-picked chosen one. Thanks Richard! (welcome to personal blogging by the way!)
The only complicated part may well be choosing who to tag next…

But enough, on with “reveal five things about yourself”…

1. Lime jelly is a favourite food, along with Lime Marmalade and Chocolate Limes, so when i wrote a CMS (very simple, and runs www.timhodson.com), I was going to call it lime jelly. However, I couldn’t because at the time there was a site using the name. So I plumped for a second favourite, (second as in alternative) which was teacake.
2. I once was the male chorus in the Sound of Music Playing a member of the Von Trap household staff , a guest at the party, the Vicar, and a Nazi Youth. It was a three and a half week run, and as well as being some what fatigued by the end of it, I never want to hear it again!
3. I am a children’s entertainer (in what spare time I have left at the moment), performing Albert Ironstain’s Puppet Theatre.
4. I am a perfectionist, and believe if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing properly. Consequently if I don’t think it’s worth it, you have no chance…
5. I collect Meat Mincers, currently having around 30. I use one that looks exactly like this one on a regular basis. Perfect for breadcrumbs and chopped nuts, and is easier to clean than the food processor!

But who to Tag? Tony Hirst, Bonaria Biancu, Jules, and I think everyone else has been ‘it’.

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There has been yet more outage in this corner of the web. My hosts HDD failed on christmas eve, and it’s taken a while to get everything straightened out. but we are back, and hopefully non too worse for wear.

I now have a google mail account, although I’m not sure why. I find it slightly spooky that all my emails can be archived and indexed by people who I don’t really know, in order to serve me with targeted advertising.

But I’m not afraid to at least play with it.