Imagine the following new programmes in the autumn schedules... * "L.A. Web Design": A high-tension soap about this L. A. web design firm which has loads of meetings in expensive make-up, and occasionally wins a Web design award (generally towards the end of each show). * "SR" (Support Room): The audience is introduced to one or two companies' networks long enough to build up an emotional connection to them before seeing something go terribly wrong (it could be software, hardware, an accident involving cleaning staff and power points, whatever). Then the glamorous SR team fight to save the network, in between emotional dramas, bonking their colleagues and one young SR trainee's struggle to overcome her addiction to WYSIWYG tools and other Microsoft products she was prescribed as a child. * "Help-Desk": This is the BBC's equivalent of SR, less glamorous, with far more plotlines involving funding, and Brenda Fricker and the Cusack sisters as the tele-centre project managers. * "When Big Ambitious Projects Attack": Live footage of deadlines colliding with clients wanting to add something to the spec. Unbelievable project requirements. See demands that an e-commerce system handle ten million hits a day and run off access. Watch as coders go insane. * "Buffy the Cracker Slayer": Buffy kills crackers that the police don't even know about, never mind are able to deal with. Complicated by the fact that her boyfriend 4ngl3 is b4d. * "4ngl3": Spin-off of "Buffy" as 4ngl3 tries to make amends for previous misdemeanours, while wearing tons of black. Not as popular as Buffy, but with much nicer theme tune. * "Heartbeat.com": Nerds loll around Yorkshire Dales listening to not-so-great music from the 1960s waiting for newfangled computers to become fashionable (and cheap enough that they can afford them, instead of just reading about them in the New Scientist in the public library). Once in a while someone dies or something, but the audience are only listening to the music anyway so nobody notices. * "The Bunker": Successful Unix programmer Richard Kimble fights a low-bandwidth enabled man who kills his wife. Falsely accused of this crime, a system-crash enables him to do a bunk from Tommy Lee Jones. He then uses his contacts with programmers and designers developing for low-bandwidth devices to track down the low-bandwidth man and bring him to justice. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
