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Guess That Movie: LXXI

Guess That Movie Round 71Yes – it’s back! Bigger (well, erm, nope, the images are still 110×110), longer (erm, probably not) and uncut! Erm…

Anyway – Sorry about the long hiatus: it was unplanned, but time constraints and high work loads meant I hardly had time to check my email: let alone entries (let alone take screengrabs). I will try and ensure the next round is on time though – talking of rounds: congratulations to lawrie for correctly recognising Guess That Movie 70 as being from Scream Three!

For those of you who are new, read on for the details of the competition and the prizes you could win – otherwise, just make your guess by leaving a comment with your name (or alias), email address (real one please: only I can see them anyway and I hate spam), web site address (totally optional) and the name of the movie you are guessing at.

For those who are new here, basically Guess That Movie (GTM) is a little competition where you have “simply” just got to recognise which movie the screen shot on the left has been taken from. I say “simply” as sometimes, it’s not quite obvious which movie it is (yes, the screenshot has been cropped and resized – but I’ve done nothing else to it).

Snippet: Sick.

I’m ill at the moment (so ill I left work 4 hours early). I’m feeling a bit better now, but I don’t like the symptoms. Symptoms were stomach ache and thirst. Symptoms went away after lots of Coca Cola (2×2 litre bottles and 2 cans) and 4 pancakes with lots of sugar.

I know that a) baring a “turn for the worse”, I’ll be at work tomorrow, and b) I’ve I’m still feeling “odd” on Saturday, I’ll try and get a blood-sugar test done..

Bummer.

Guess That Movie: Coming Soon….

Question MarkComing soon to a web site near you – the next round of Guess That Movie…

Yes – after lawrie correctly recognised Guess That Movie 70: Scream III, the next round of Guess That Movie is nearly ready. I was hoping to have it ready today, but machine slowness prevents me from playing a movie to grab a screenshot. But what I’ll do tomorrow evening (promise!) is preload a dozen or so images and try and set them on a timer system so if my workload stays high (which it looks like it will for at least the next couple of weeks), then at least the next round of Guess That Movie will be available.

So until tomorrow – try and recognising what product this TV advertisement was advertising (25 points for the brand, 25 additional points for the product): “Do me a favour, plug me ….”.

Personal: Well, I went out last night…

Last night (Saturday), I went out “on the town” for what I think is the first time this year (yep, it’s already November!). Started getting ready around 6pm (bath, have dinner, shave, have hair wash, shave again, get trousers on, shave annoying bits I’ve missed again, get shirt on, use razor yet again), just missed the 10pm bus so I had to walk into town (it’s was chilly, but not cold): got into town and then went to the Creation nightclub on Churchgate in Leicester (Churchgate is practically all pubs and clubs down one side). Spent around 45 minutes in there having 2 “Red Square” Vodka bottle drinks and then headed home (since it was raining I caught a taxi).

Blarg! Seems a bit of a waste doesn’t it! I think I spent more time travelling that actually time at the nightclub: but it was very packed and I just wasn’t too much in the mood: plus going on your own isn’t that “fun” either. I need to get out more!

Snippet: Microsoft Frontpage 2003

As much as my hatred of Microsoft Frontpage is known, I must admit I’m seriously thinking about MS Frontpage 2003 [Order from Amazon.co.uk] amazoncom:B0000AZJV8 . Why? Well until now the “horrible code” it produced and the very templated look of the sites (I can usually tell within seconds if it’s a Frontpage site) has put me off even considering maybe getting a copy – but an advertisement over at Slashdot which pointed me towards this Flash Demo of FP2003 is seriously making me reconsidering. Clean code, “code snippets” (something that my “editor of preference” – EditPlus doesn’t yet offer), regular expression search and replace, “split screen editing mode”, Accessibility checking, and XML data connectivity…. *drool*.

Only two things are putting me off at the moment: The £153.49 price tag (how much!?!?) and the fact it’s a Microsoft product. Oh well, I’ll just have to do without for now.