Author Archives: Richard Graham

It’s got to be perfect

I can’t get the Left and Right video to work right. “How are you?” is just about finished, and “What’s your name?” is looking really good, but Left and Right just doesn’t jive. Hmm. After trying lots of different things I gave up (no use working with no motivation) and did some work on the…

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No batteries

Went out to work at Seattle’s Best again today. Except that I couldn’t use the electric socket, so only got 3 hours work done before my battery died. But I had a plan! I brought my music computer along to do some music work. But when I switched that on the batteries also died. Hmmm….

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Argh!

Oh I’m fed up with problems with the web servers!! I’ve spent just about all of this week faffing around with the new web host, rather than getting work done on the DVD, which is now well behind schedule. The new web servers just have so many little problems, it’s ridiculous! I was thinking of…

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Eating Live Octopus!

Today I had a meeting and the food was a little interesting to say the least, basically because everything was alive. They set up a BBQ on the table and brought out a massive platter of crawling, moving live shell fish!! I had never seen anything like it. The jumbo prawns were fighting each other…

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Backing up the Discussion Board

Well I think I got precisely zero productive work done today! First off I spent hours and hours trying to install the discussion board on the new server. It just refused to work!! But there are a load of really good posts on there so in the end I just bit the bullet and updated…

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More DVD stuff and extras for the site

Did some quick reshoots today and spent a lot of time recording the voice parts for the animations I did last night (recording at 4 AM probably isn’t the best thing with neighbours living as close as they do in Japan!). I also found out a really cool new shopping cart system, which could be…

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