We’ve had this thang going, starting from random conversations, that certain phrases sound like Bond Girl names.

So, if you hear something in conversation that sounds like it could at a stretch be an entertaining Bond Girl name, you are duty-bound to point it out in the time honoured way outlined below.

The last post here mentioned marine debris, so that’s a good example to start with. You have to assume a bad Sean Sean Connery accent and say… “Ah, Mish Debris! Or may I call you Marine?”

I can’t take the credit for coming up with this, but I did introduce the idea to Umra who’ve had a little occasional fun with it.

(I’m writing this from my mobile, so bare/bear with me if it doesn’t quite work)

Coming from inland, the thing I like best in any seaside resort is the sea itself. Blackpool is no exception despite its many and various insalubrious attractions.

Last night at high tide, the sea was forced against the sea wall and spray was shooting up to 30ft in the air. Eventually, there was enough water on the Promenade that there were waves ebbing over the tram tracks. (interestingly, water and waves are the same under predictive text). This morning, the tide was back out again, but left the tracks covered in marine debris (“Ah, Mish Debris“) like seaweed, and shells.

I’ll be at conference from this afternoon, and may or may not be able get online and/or post for the next few days.

Librivox have a very worthy project of recording copyright free books from Project Gutenberg as MP3s and keeping them ‘somewhere’ on the internet as public domain recordings.

I’ve volunteered to read two chapters of Frankenstein. I really must stop volunteering.

Here’s the first of my chapters, chapter 7. Other people are recording 1-6 etc. It was a bit strange starting in the middle of the story — it’s been years since I read Frankenstein. Not helped by the fact that I half had it in my head that I was actually reading Dracula.

Because it’s in the middle of a story, I’m not going to tag it into my podcast feed. I’ll set up a new feed and list it on the specific Podcasting page (link top right for most people).

Librivox also say that if you want to take on an entire book and read it all, you’re welcome, so I’ll have a think about what I might want to do when I get back from Conference. It has to be a work out of copyrite, and one that’s already in Project Gutenberg.

Celebrity endorsement for this blog.

OK, so I made my first Podcast. The subscribe link is http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/system:filetype:mp3+nilespod. The link for the individual episode is here.

This would not have been possible without the detailed instructions ofTroubled Diva who wrote about how to make and listen to Podcasts.

P has heard it through and snorted. Apparently I’ll never get a job with hospital radio.

I’m happy to report that with the help of Stella’s walkthrough, I have caught up to the point in Tomb Raider I that I abandoned it years ago. After about an hour on the Fire Torch room, I finally got through it.

Lots of annoyances. I’m playing it on my laptop, and there are key combinations that are needed by the game that just make my laptop beep.

And of course, this is a Windows 95 game, which is, at best, flakey under XP. In particular, the game freezes at certain points, and the only way out is to kill the instance of the game, start again, and reload the previous saved game.

Unfortunately, these freezes come:

• At the Eidos splash screen
• When the title page fades from white to colour
• When the title command sprites launch into orbit
• At the beginning and ends of levels
• When saving or loading games
• Before and after cut scenes

So I’m really having to keep on my toes and cross my fingers, and save frequently.

Last time I was playing this, I was under the impression that the Fire Torch Room was some key pin at the very end of the came. I was sadly mistaken: it’s pretty much exactly halfway through.

So, now that I’ve got this far with the walkthrough, shall I abandon it and play the game for myself? … Probably not…

I’m happy to report that with the help of Stella’s walkthrough, I have caught up to the point in Tomb Raider I that I abandoned it years ago. After about an hour on the Fire Torch room, I finally got through it.

Lots of annoyances. I’m playing it on my laptop, and there are key combinations that are needed by the game that just make my laptop beep.

And of course, this is a Windows 95 game, which is, at best, flakey under XP. In particular, the game freezes at certain points, and the only way out is to kill the instance of the game, start again, and reload the previous saved game.

Unfortunately, these freezes come:

• At the Eidos splash screen
• When the title page fades from white to colour
• When the title command sprites launch into orbit
• At the beginning and ends of levels
• When saving or loading games
• Before and after cut scenes

So I’m really having to keep on my toes and cross my fingers, and save frequently.

Last time I was playing this, I was under the impression that the Fire Torch Room was some key pin at the very end of the came. I was sadly mistaken: it’s pretty much exactly halfway through.

So, now that I’ve got this far with the walkthrough, shall I abandon it and play the game for myself? … Probably not…