{"id":326,"date":"2006-02-24T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theblankscreen.co.uk\/selfdistract\/2006\/02\/24\/its-good-here-isnt-it\/"},"modified":"2006-02-24T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T14:21:00","slug":"its-good-here-isnt-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2006\/02\/24\/its-good-here-isnt-it\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s good here, isn&#8217;t it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure where everything is yet but I&#8217;ve found the kitchen and the whole place is just more comfy than my old blog page. If I&#8217;ve not met you before, hello. How are you? <\/p>\n<p>This was all meant to be a simple What&#8217;s New for my site www.williamgallagher.com site which is the home to the UK DVD Review podcast that you can also get through iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>But I think it&#8217;s become something more, I&#8217;m not entirely sure what, and if I&#8217;m right that it&#8217;s developed then it&#8217;s because of you. Wow, did you freak me out when I discovered how to do a counter and saw how many people were flying by. Ta for that, it was a shock but a great one.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ve been away quite ill &#8211; just man-flu, but it seemed bad at the time &#8211; and some things have happened. Previously on this blog, or its ancestor anyway, I&#8217;ve boasted that I got a gig presenting DVD reviews on BBC Hereford &amp; Worcester local radio. Their Friday breakfast show focuses on the weekend, it&#8217;s still a news show but it&#8217;s got an entertainment side and dotted throughout the show are four DVD reviews. Each is one-minute long, I present them.<\/p>\n<p>And if you just glazed because I&#8217;ve said this before, there is one teeny detail I always left out and it&#8217;s this: the gig at Hereford &amp; Worcester was a trial. <\/p>\n<p>Whereas what&#8217;s new is that the trial is over and the station&#8217;s asked to extend my contract for a further few months.<\/p>\n<p>You know what&#8217;s supposed to happen, don&#8217;t you? They ask, I haggle, I play it cool, I haggle some more. But nope, I emailed back instantly saying &#8220;Yes, please&#8221;. I love doing this, though you&#8217;d be surprised how much work it is. The total running time is four minutes, four entire whole minutes but the average time it takes me to do is a bit over three hours, not including watching the films.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I used to do the picture editing for the RadioTimes.com website and though someone else has taken that over &#8211; and she&#8217;s markedly better and faster than me, incidentally, so I doubt I&#8217;ll be getting that gig back &#8211; I am now working on the site&#8217;s photo galleries. It ought to be astonishingly easy: Radio Times magazine has a great picture desk team, the shots they take or get in are truly tremendous, all I have to do is pop them onto the website.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what I do. Just one is up and about now, a selection of photos from RT&#8217;s famous covers party:<br \/>http:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/content\/features\/galleries\/coversparty\/01\/<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re hoping to add something to that next week, but I&#8217;ll tell you what if it works out. Also RT gave the cast of Hustle a compact flash digital camera and I&#8217;ve been looking over the shots they took. The best are going to be in the next issue of Radio Times and should be online shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, a script of mine won me a place on a mentoring scheme where a professional full-time script writer. I had a meeting about that right in the middle of my cold; I drove the hour to it with a hot-water bottle up my jumper.<\/p>\n<p>So.<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;ve you been?<\/p>\n<p>William<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure where everything is yet but I&#8217;ve found the kitchen and the whole place is just more comfy than &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2006\/02\/24\/its-good-here-isnt-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4chyI-5g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}