An audience of two

Monday October 01, 2007

Best. Video. Ever.
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Let's stop now and just declare Google the winner.
These are all the videos on YouTube that YouTube thinks are tagged with suncec2007. At the time of writing there are two.
These are all the videos that Google has found on YouTube that are tagged with suncec2007. At the time of writing there are seven. So Google is doing a better job of searching YouTube's tag database than YouTube is.

Similarly, this is what Technorati claims is Everything in the known universe about suncec2007.
This is what you see when you google suncec2007.
I've been trying unsuccessfully to get Technorati to update its cache of my blog which is 111 days old.
Why bother. Google for teh win!

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Iliad must read my blog
Today's UserFriendly cartoon

I was only complaining about this at the weekend.
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CEC Videos: Drivel
Drivel was my second CEC video. Unlike the first, this one was actually planned and had a real script. Rob and I thrashed it out over email, then recorded ourselves reading the whole thing. I gradually replaced the two of us with everyone else.

I spent ages on the race sequence, editing the timing to fit the tempo of the song (in case you don't recognise it, it's One Of These Days by Pink Floyd). I was furious when the CEC video people overdubbed it with some techno crap instead.

The team T-shirts contains sponsor logos for Tabs (geordie slang for cigarettes), Remoulds tyres and Crap Cola - slogan "Have a crap and a smile". I wore one of the shirts at STS, but the iron-on transfers began to peel off when they were washed.

RDA was one of our group's early products. It used callback modems. Ben was responsible for maintaining the modem pool back in the UK, and while that wasn't the exact same brand of modem that we used, I think he found it cathartic. TeleAlarm was a monitoring solution developed by the support centre in France, hence the music and the page.

The RTFM jingle is the theme from Battle Of The Planets. In much of the actual driving sequences, the stunt man is me. I drove that go-kart around the Newark car park on a weekend following Ralph and Suzanne. Most of the footage was too shaky to use. The go-kart belonged to Russ Sears.

The video includes clips from real Formula 1 races along with the movies Charlie's Angels and Driven, and an Indianapolis DVD that Rob had. The opening theme is from the movie Pi (excellent movie, great soundtrack), and the flames in the background are from Alien 3, the bit where Sigourney Weaver dies. (Spoiler alert.)

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