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31 March 2002 |
Scott Johnson wrote an essay about trying to learn Radio as an outliner. "Anyone downloading software, particularly cheap software (Radio is $39.95), has the attention span of a rabid gnat. They tend to give up immediately when they hit a problem since their investment in the process is minimal at best." What he says is true, and if you use Radio for its main purpose, you get to the pleasure button quickly without too many distractions. But if you wander into the outliner (deliberately hard to do) you need to pay attention. Someday we may have a product that is just an outliner. For now we have to put the outliner on the side, and make it relatively hard to find, so it doesn't trip up casual users.  [Scripting News]
7:02:23 PM
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The Sunday Times on a Chaste Maid in Cheapside. Stinker of a review and we're off to see it on Tuesday.
"In theory, Thomas Middleton’s 1613 piece is a city comedy of lechery and greed. In practice, it is, for all its earnest plotting, one of his worst plays: the theatrical equivalent of a Jacobean Donald McGill seaside postcard, a tedious hotchpotch of absurd construction, turgid writing and ponderous dirty jokes. Ben Harrison’s production is more than a match for it, even though he misses some of Middleton’s more recondite obscenities. It is also clumsy, over-acted, and entirely innocent of style. The set is hideous and nonfunctional; the multiperiod costumes are tacky, vulgar or both. Stephen Boxer and Terence Wilton provide what you and I might call acting; the rest is best forgotten. Can this really be an Almeida touring production? The mind boggles. "
6:57:57 PM
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Went for a walk along the South Bank of the Thames today. Saw David Goedecke of IPS but he didn't notice us.
Great to be able to walk all that way away from traffic. HMS Belfast, the Golden Hinde, Shakespeare's Globe, the Tate Modern, then the London Eye. Noticed that they are building a new footbridge at Waterloo and that the wobbling Millenium Bridge is open again.
The Hinde, which is tiny, was crewed by 60 people apparently but the average Elizabethan was 5 foot four.
6:50:56 PM
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