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A potted history of Table Rappers

A potted history of Table Rappers

The idea behind Table Rappers originally developed as a television screenplay sometime around 2002.
At that time, the characters and their world were developed, a television series ‘bible’ created, and second draft screenplays for the first two episodes written.
It is difficult enough for established and experienced writers to break their ideas into production, so after several years of collecting rejection slips and some programmes in a similar genre appearing on both main UK TV channels, I decided to mothball the project for a little while.

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Now all I need is three months off work…

This weekend is planning and execution weekend (no rolling heads involved) for the Table Rappers: Persistent Spirit audio novel.
First some time yesterday morning to plan out the workload leading up to release of the promos and prelude episode by the end of November. There is a huge amount to accomplish - far more than any [...]

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Phishing DNS Trojan hits Mac OSX

MacWorld reports a genuine Trojan risk on Mac OSX

It was always inevitable that the stronger market share Apple achieve, the more chance there is of the less desirable elements of the internet world to want to attack its system and users. Though nowhere near as vulnerable as most Windows systems, we will certainly see an [...]

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A visit to Malta - Part 1

This post is brought to you in association with the year’s obligatory holiday reading matter is the exquisite League of Gentlemen Book of Precious things, in which each member of the league lays out his inspirations, with example stories, scripts, and passages. It is much like one of those “Top 100 Best Movies to Dress [...]

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How utterly cool for the original UK podcaster

Martin “Green Dragon” just posted this message to twitter:
txt msg from friends at Glastonbury. They were woken this morning by the sound of my voice, tent next to them playing my podcast
I cannot begin to express just how cool this is. Nice one, GD!

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Is that a phone..?

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Quote of the day #001

Adrian Pegg, in Egypt, working on a TV programme for LivingTV:
“I’m glad I stayed at the hotel today. I’ve got 15 people up a mountain on donkeys at the moment”

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Great Britain? Season 3.0 trailer

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MT 29 - Deliver us from the clutches of P & J

A Minor Technicality 29:
Deliver us from the clutches of P & J
Minor Technicality slips into your ears once more with a look at Twitter, how authors are being branded more than their books, the way to deal with email is to switch it off, sniffer dogs at the station, freecyclegems, and at last, the banjo!
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SEO software with a massive discount

This is a superb idea from the SEO Software Link-Assistant. SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) helps your visibility on search engines for your niche keywords. One important factor in achieving this is generating incoming links from sites which Google considers important and relevant. This relevancy is marked by Google as Page Rank (PR), the higher your [...]

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