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  1. Server move autopsy

    Painful details of why and how I moved servers again.

  2. See me in a play

    I’m going to be in a play about Lilia Litviak, a female World War II Soviet fighter pilot.

  3. This is on the new server

    If you can read this, you’re looking at the site on the new server. Hopefully it’s no…

  4. Moving servers

    Rather than spend this sunny day without work sitting outside, I’m in the process of moving…

  5. Captionless exhibitions

    I’ve been getting frustrated by exhibitions that don’t have any descriptions for their exhibits.

  6. 40,000 RSS feeds

    We’ve added a load of RSS feeds to The Time When. Yes, nearly that many.

  7. Encore Theatre Magazine

    The weblog is back in fine form with lots of top-flight passionate ranting.

  8. HotWired demo site from 1995

    A demo version of the HotWired website from 1995.

  9. Wanted: A walking map of London for Palm OS

    The map application I used on my old Palm Vx doesn’t work on my new Treo. I miss its walking directions and can’t find a more modern replacement.

  10. Summer clown school

    I’ve done a week-long clowning course at the City Lit which was lots of fun and very difficult. Really useful for acting generally.

  11. The Time When

    A new site I’ve built for the BBC has just launched, aggregating peoples’ memories and news events through history.

  12. I’m going to drama school

    In a few months I’m going to start at LISPA (London International School of Performing Arts), pretty much full time. Blimey.

  13. My new Whit Stillman website

    I’ve just moved my page about the film director Whit Stillman to a new site, powered by WordPress, which I’m enjoying a lot.

  14. ‘True and False’ by David Mamet

    My notes on the book, in which Mamet rants against acting eduction, acting teachers, The Method… everything other than the actor getting on stage in front of an audience and delivering the author’s lines.

  15. Ningbar

    I did a smidgen of work on Ning.com’s new “Ningbar”. It has some very clever CSS and Javascript.

  16. Foundation course final essay

    The final essay I wrote about the course — what had worked for me and what hadn’t.

  17. Category Archives with MTMultiBlog

    How to get the Movable Type MTMultiBlog plugin displaying entries in category pages correctly.

  18. New York Review of Books, 27 April 2006

    A few quotes/statistics from a review of books on globalization for me to remember not to forget.

  19. The Collection performance

    After rehearsals over several weeks we finally performed our ten minute scene in front of an audience.

  20. The Collection dress rehearsal

    Our dress rehearsal went almost worryingly well.

  21. The Collection Rehearsals part 3

    Continuing with rehearsals. Lots of fruit malarkey and finally getting somewhere with my character.

  22. ‘Sanford Meisner on Acting’

    Notes on Meisner’s enjoyable and inspiring book.

  23. ‘Respect for Acting’ by Uta Hagen

    Notes on the book, which has been required reading for my Foundation acting course.

  24. More rehearsals

    Continuing rehearsals for our ‘The Collection’ scene, trying to work out my character.

  25. The Collection rehearsals

    I’m rehearsing a scene from Pinter’s ‘The Collection’. It’s going OK, but is proving difficult.