themaninblack

Light the blue touchpaper and stand back. Countdown 37 days...

Not too many Producers/Script editors from the original series left. AFAIK there's Donald Tosh (SE), Derrick Sherwin (SE/Pr), Terrance Dicks (SE), Philip HInchcliffe (Pr), Antony Root (SE), Eric Saward (SE) and Andrew Cartmell (SE)...

What do you have in mind? I ask this as I recognise that despite my efforts (I'm not a natural website builder I must admit), the site still looks like something from 2000! This is the problem, my background is in web content not web design so I have no fucking idea. As it stands, the site is completely manual, correct? So when Old Celebrity X dies you have to write the front page obit, work out the scoring, put their points and picks at the bottom of the front page, cross their name off on both the celeb picks and the teams page, add the date of death to picks page, then update the scores of all the teams that picked them, correct? Surely the first thing would be some sort of method that turns those six separate actions into one. The problem is it's not as if we can use some existing software (like the ones that exist for sports leagues) and repurpose it.... Actually much of it is automatic. The "manual pages" are the front page (index), List of the Missed, List of the Lost, Drop 40, Records/Stats & Theme Team League. The TTL table is cobbled together using the main scoreboard via an Excel spreadsheet which excludes the other competitors. The Scoreboard, Teams and Celeb pages are generated using a combination of Access database and a HTA, which generate the HTML pages. Now the aim in future is to have a website which includes the database within which would automatically configure the pages (scores, teams etc) via some web portal. I'm fairly sure that can be done (php+SQL). This would almost certainly mean me changing domain and abandoning the free website hosted by Madasafish/Plusnet (which has a maximum capacity of 100mb and allows no database within) in favour of a paid for, bells 'n whistles website. A complete overhaul, basically a new site altogether. That would take a little time to research the right kind of website and understanding what it takes to create the new site. But, it's about time... Following the erstwhile Deathray's suggestion, I could separate the TTL from the main site (with the added bonus for players of both to potentially have the same pick scoring twice as uniques if they are used in both teams) by simply creating a second access database just for the TTL...

He loves the smell of embalm in the morning...

Is she doing the stalking?

To think there are some men out there who have bust their nuts into that!

I'm just going to keep picking Jimmy till he croaks it...

Made all the headlines the next day, the day I was born!

Jim Slater has died at 86. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12006338/Jim-Slater-financier-obituary.html Edit: Ideal opportunity to tag Ludo as dead, too! Balls. Had him on my long list for a while but never got round to picking him. Harumph!

"It ain't over till it's over..."

I haven't rolled out what they are yet...

I have a feeling his "Realpolitik" will swing back into fashion again after recent events...

F5 is your friend...

Your laptop is being a job...

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If you hear Mitchell in the episode where he plays a doctor, you wouldn't know it was him....

Dundee Utd and Liverpool were the only British teams to beat Barca at the Nou Camp in European competition... Steau did what they had to do. The real tragedy is that Red Star played the same trick on Marseille in 1991 which was a real pity because they had a terrific team. Worst European Cup final ever...

Wasn't because a certain Terry Venables was in charge of the Barcelona team was it?

His dealer?

Ah, the last dictator in Europe is using some of the old tyrant tricks. He was doing the fucking Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah a few months a go!

I always get Geroge wrong!

Who will break the record? Cliff Michelmore...

The news that Betsy Drake has died at 92 back on October 27th breaks on a fast news day. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/betsy-drake-dead-cary-grant-838970 Note: Only posted here because of the previous reference by Handrejka. And another of my possibles for next year bites the dust. I thought this year was your last on the DDP? Not that I'm complaining!

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