chez dafyd

16 hours gone, and I’m almost out of ideas.

The sun is shining outside again, it’s a beautiful shiny bright morning.

But I’m starting to struggle for things to post.

Any ideas? Anything you’d like me to review?

I’ve just uploaded to Flickr most of the photos I took at Disneyland a fortnight ago, including this one, which shows exactly why I love the place:

The sheer scale of the place, the ability to lose yourself in the park and forget that there is another world outside… just wonderful.

According to Wikipedia,

In the 1970s, TV was typically used to provide [Open University] lectures, and the image of the OU lecturer in brown ‘kipper-tie’ and flared corduroy trouser became something of a national icon. OU programmes are generally now much more innovative, using documentary styles.

That’s not what I’ve seen tonight. The brown ties [...]

Anyone else getting annoyed by those Volkswagen Safran adverts? The ones with the kids, meeting their “new neighbours”?

The first couple of times, it was pretty entertaining. But during three hours of the West Wing on Friday night, it was shown in every ad break. That’s ten times in three programmes. Which is, possibly, just a [...]

…and someone’s getting tired:

He ain’t the only one.

I’ve just looked at my last few posts, and it turns out I’ve been titling them out of 28 (26/28, whatever). Stoopid.

Caffeine helps, I think… I’m powering through this! There’s some exciting Open University programming on BBC2 at the moment (complete with dodgy haircuts)… or live Big Brother [...]

Over at Blogathon HQ, they’re posting “games”, basically post suggestions for which the best wins a prize of sponsorship money. Most haven’t been terribly exciting, and I’ve had other stuff to write about, but I just spotted Game 7 – I’m too late to enter, but I thought I’d post my answer anyway:

Post about your [...]

So, we’re nine hours into the Blogathon, and reading back over my last few posts, I can tell I’m getting tired. My prose has started to get a tad rubbish, and some sentences don’t even make sense. Bother.

I’ve not been sleeping terribly well for the last few nights, mainly because of the heat and my [...]

My laptop just died. Drat.

I was trying to get the TV card to work and show me BBC1, but it refused. So I’ve switched to the backup computer until it restarts.

I could, I suppose, just move the laptop downstairs to where the TV already is… in fact, I think I’ll do that in a bit [...]

Just over a quarter of the way through the Blogathon, I thought I’d pause the reviews for a sec and point to an article I just found on the BBC:

African elephants hate climbing hills because it is too costly in terms of energy, a study suggests. They found that the [...]

Well, welcome to Blogathon 2006 here chez dafyd. 24 hours, 48 posts… should be fun – I hope you stick around!

I’m mainly going to be posting on my Books blog – reviews, thoughts, etc – but there will be the occasional post on my main blog, especially once I start running out of things to [...]