Ricky Gervais

Ricky's on TV tonight, the trailer didn't look very funny at all though :-( here is an updated from www.rickygervais.com

Hello

It's the last week of Ricky's 'FAME' tour and there are some newly released
production seats available for today (Monday ) and tomorrow at the Hammersmmith
Apollo.

To book, call the venue on 0870 606 3400 or go online to
or ticketzone.co.uk
ticketmaster.co.uk

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If you didn't manage to see Ricky live, the show's been filmed and will be out
on DVD November 12. Pre-order it now at Amazon

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There's a new teaser for the forthcoming Extras Christmas Special available as a podcast.
If you've got iTunes you can get it here

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The fourth Flanimals book - "The Day Of The Bletchling" is very shortly on the 4th October.
You can
pre-order it at Amazon here

2007 :: Comment / reply

Beer: not bad

My homebrew was not bad at all, not 100% clear, but brown and smelled and tasted of beer, so can't complain. Was a little bit malty for my taste, but I can fis that when I start on a proper recipe and really mess things up.

All in all had a very nice weekend, we went to Escondido for lunch, and did afternoon drinking in The Ship, and browsing of antique shops and then off for a full evening of boozing it up. We took in The Harbour, and The Burstin just to see what it was like - madly busy, with visiting coach parties from around the country. The place was actually packed out, and had the odd atmosphere of a holiday camp. then we finished off at The Ship, the other one, in the harbour.
I think I finally had some success with DVD burning, which I've been struggling with for ages to get it working without actually having to buy any software. I have a load of things as AVIs that are fine for me (my DVD player plays data discs), but I want other people to be able to watch on a regular DVD player. I think I've finally got it sorted with a combo of bits of software, all of which met my requirements of being free, and legit, and not a trial only version or any crippleware... I'm now using something called Super to convert AVI to VOB, then /> DVD Styler to make menus and save as an ISO, and then cd burner x pro to burn the iso to a disk.

Can't find the proper link to Super right now, but it is French and their site is rubbish. I think I can get away with converting AVI to MPEG using any other software now I come to think of it, I just need a bit more experimenting.

I can't believe it's taken me so long to get things sorted though, what does everyone else use? I mean to make proper DVD's with menus and things.

2007 :: Comment / reply

RE: More likely I've just been lucky so far

Virtual Dub rocks and does most things you need it to, including rotating video images (handy if you've been using a Sony digital camera for video and then finding that everything's 90 degrees out when you watch it on your PC screen).

Also, unless you're converting the xvid file into a DVD VOB format (MPEG-2) then you shouldn't have to worry about whether it's PAL or NTSC. You're playing on your iPAQ and PC (or DVD player that reads XVID's MPEG-4 stream) so the players will sort out all the hard stuff for you ;o)

itchypaws :: 10 Nov :: 2005 :: Comment / reply