Several assorted goodies today:

Cristina translated the Ciak article, which has a great last line from Paul. She also sent scans from the Italian magazines Grazia (new picture of Paul on the DVC set) and Panorama.

Janina made a Wimbledon music video, “Let’s Get It Started.” Save target as, please.

I finally got around to making a sound clip of the Jonathan Ross show.

Finally, thanks to Steffen at Capelight Pictures for sending the news that The Reckoning is now available to rent on DVD in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. It will be available to buy in a 2-disc set on July 28. The DVD website is here, and it includes some great new high-quality pictures! Just be patient, as it takes a little while to load.

Angeline, Janina, and Rahalia have very kindly agreed to offer little “thank you” gifts for donations to our UNICEF drive. When you donate one of the amounts listed below, I’ll email you to find out your preferences, etc., and then I’ll pass your request on to one of them.

If you give £1 (about $2.00), you will get a custom-made 100×100 forum avatar / LJ icon from Rahalia or Janina. (Go here to see examples of Janina’s icons, and click here to see some of Rahalia’s)

If you give £2 (about $3.75), Rahalia will make you a custom signature banner OR a 100×100 forum avatar / LJ icon.

If you give £3 (about $5.50), Rahalia will make you a custom signature banner AND a 100×100 forum avatar / LJ icon.

If you donate £5 (about $9.00), you can get a custom-made wallpaper from Angeline or Janina.

If you give £7 (about $13.00) – the amount mentioned by Paul in the Mozambique video – you get a custom-made wallpaper, banner, and avatar/icon.

For those of you who have already donated, just email me.

If you want a Silas Lego-man, click here.  :laugh:

We have further confirmation of The Journey Home, which Paul and Jennifer are attached to film in England and Iceland. Click here to read the new article – thanks to Hildi for sending it and translating it for us!

US folks: Paul’s very funny appearance on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson will re-air on CBS Wednesday night. If you missed it before, you can catch it this time!

What a pleasure! I just had to make a new UNICEF gift-o-meter graphic because the total is already higher than what I expected… and it’s only Tuesday! *going to bed with a smile*

Ahh, today was such a relief. No news, just like the old days.    I did add some beautiful new wallpapers and icons by Janina, as well as other odds and ends.

If you’d like a cilice of your very own (who doesn’t? *cough*), check out this auction on Ebay. Right now the bidding is at $91.

:O

I’m completely overwhelmed with how many people are visiting this site since last week. Examples?

Since I made the gallery members-only yesterday afternoon, over 400 people have made accounts. That’s right. 400. In less than 24 hours.

And the forum! It used to get maybe 5-10 posts a day. Now there are hundreds every day. I can’t even read them all anymore.

Since yesterday morning, about 3,300 people have accessed this main page alone. Close to 80,000 pages have been loaded. Total requests for pages, pictures, etc: about 619,000. Data transferred: over 21 gigs. All since yesterday morning.

I know that owners of large websites would smile indulgently at my awe, but this site used to transfer about 3 gigs of data a week. And now we’re transferring 21 gigs in less than two days?

Silas, what have you done? *runs away from scary monster PBnet*

Added a new interview from Bazaar Australia magazine.

Due to the large number of new visitors since DVC came out, and since the forum bugs are all sorted out now, I’ve re-locked the gallery to members only. This helps me to save some bandwidth and avoid spammers. The forum and gallery are not connected. If you don’t have an account on the gallery, you’ll need to create one. Don’t worry, it takes about two seconds.