I had my assessment on Monday morning, I dont think it went well. The was no pass or fail, it was purely an assessment, so if you couldnt answer a question it was ok to leave, and quite a few people left as soon as it started.

The conversation part of the went even worse, I was asked my name, and then they introduced themselves, except I thought one of them said something else, so I had a blank look on my face, said that I didnt understand, and then finally realised that she was telling me her name, how embarassing. Oh well…

I managed to get a half decents nights sleep but still woke up at 4am, but 5 I had decided trying to sleep was pointless so I went for a walk. I walked past a big mall, a bathroom show room, and a couple of flower shops, I believe the technical is florists. I went to the Castle and the park around it, the best bit was the foot bridge crossing the river, there are lots of carp in the river that come to meet you as you lean over the barrier. As I walked along they followed me, gasping at the surface for the food that I couldn’t throw to them. Oh, I forget to mention that all this time it was raining.

I managed to escape the fish, but took a wrong turn and ended up looping back on myself, only to be trying to walk against the tide of kids heading to school, 4 hours later I arrived back.

Later, I went to a 2nd hand bike shop, but it was shut. And its still raining.

I finally made it, about 27 hours after I woke up I finally got some real sleep. The first leg of the flight was ok, nothing special, the second flight was much more entertaining. When I booked my flight I selected a seat that had no one arround it, hoping to be able to stretch out and have 4 seats to my self and get some sleep. However by the time of the flight those seats arround me had been taken and I was stuck. To make matters worse I had gotten all my gear sorted then I get asked if I wouldnt mind swapping so some lady could sit with her friends. Ever the gentleman I moved.

As it turns out this was quite good, I would end up sitting next to a Japanese Lady who had studied English at Durham University. I watched The Hangover and ate Lasagna. Didnt get any sleep, and didnt need to pee once.

The flight arrived almost on time, however the bus from the airport got stuck in traffic. A trip that should’ve taken 1 hour 30 mins took over an hour longer. But I eventually arrived, feel asleep for far too long and spent the entire night wide awake.

Last year I bought a Canon HV20. We took a little trip to Sea Palling to test it out, I put the video on Vimeo and 11 months later I get this email…

Hi, my name is Gary Standley and I’m the Producer for BBC Voices in Norwich.
Between the 12th and 24th October we will be running the Norfolk Film Festival and this will give filmmakers an opportunity to have their films shown to the public on our giant screen in Fusion at the Forum in Norwich.
We have seen your video entitled “Sea Palling’’ on Vimeo and we are really interested in showing it at our festival. (Over 1 million people visit the Forum each year so your potential audience could be quite large!)
Also if you have any other films that you feel would be suitable then we would very much like to see these too please.

I sent a reply back, but its really nothing special, in fact its really quite dull. So actually its quite an acurate depiction on Sea Palling.

Everything seemed fine last night but I gave it a fresh look this morning and noticed that the post thumbnails for the blog home page were not displaying at all.  My blogs use the Thesis theme which lets you specify the thumbnail as a URL to the image file in the Write Post admin page.  For some reason the .htaccess redirection for the old domain name was not working for the URLs configured on each post for the thumbnail image.

After a little snooping around in MySQL I found that Thesis stores this setting in the wp_postmeta table with a key name of thesis_thumb and a value of the URL itself.  So the solution was as simple as performing a find/replace operation in MySQL.  I made sure to backup my database first, then ran this SQL command:
Everything seemed fine last night but I gave it a fresh look this morning and noticed that the post thumbnails for the blog home page were not displaying at all. My blogs use the Thesis theme which lets you specify the thumbnail as a URL to the image file in the Write Post admin page. For some reason the .htaccess redirection for the old domain name was not working for the URLs configured on each post for the thumbnail image.

After a little snooping around in MySQL I found that Thesis stores this setting in the wp_postmeta table with a key name of thesis_thumb and a value of the URL itself. So the solution was as simple as performing a find/replace operation in MySQL. I made sure to backup my database first, then ran this SQL command:

Everything seemed fine last night but I gave it a fresh look this morning and noticed that the post thumbnails for the blog home page were not displaying at all. My blogs use the Thesis theme which lets you specify the thumbnail as a URL to the image file in the Write Post admin page. For some reason the .htaccess redirection for the old domain name was not working for the URLs configured on each post for the thumbnail image.

After a little snooping around in MySQL I found that Thesis stores this setting in the wp_postmeta table with a key name of thesis_thumb and a value of the URL itself. So the solution was as simple as performing a find/replace operation in MySQL. I made sure to backup my database first, then ran this SQL command:
Everything seemed fine last night but I gave it a fresh look this morning and noticed that the post thumbnails for the blog home page were not displaying at all. My blogs use the Thesis theme which lets you specify the thumbnail as a URL to the image file in the Write Post admin page. For some reason the .htaccess redirection for the old domain name was not working for the URLs configured on each post for the thumbnail image.

After a little snooping around in MySQL I found that Thesis stores this setting in the wp_postmeta table with a key name of thesis_thumb and a value of the URL itself. So the solution was as simple as performing a find/replace operation in MySQL. I made sure to backup my database first, then ran this SQL command:Everything seemed fine last night but I gave it a fresh look this morning and noticed that the post thumbnails for the blog home page were not displaying at all. My blogs use the Thesis theme which lets you specify the thumbnail as a URL to the image file in the Write Post admin page. For some reason the .htaccess redirection for the old domain name was not working for the URLs configured on each post for the thumbnail image.

After a little snooping around in MySQL I found that Thesis stores this setting in the wp_postmeta table with a key name of thesis_thumb and a value of the URL itself. So the solution was as simple as performing a find/replace operation in MySQL. I made sure to backup my database first, then ran this SQL command:
Everything seemed fine last night but I gave it a fresh look this morning and noticed that the post thumbnails for the blog home page were not displaying at all. My blogs use the Thesis theme which lets you specify the thumbnail as a URL to the image file in the Write Post admin page. For some reason the .htaccess redirection for the old domain name was not working for the URLs configured on each post for the thumbnail image.

After a little snooping around in MySQL I found that Thesis stores this setting in the wp_postmeta table with a key name of thesis_thumb and a value of the URL itself. So the solution was as simple as performing a find/replace operation in MySQL. I made sure to backup my database first, then ran this SQL command: