ACE Lyric #8
“Let me flow into the Ocean, Let me flow back to the sea, Let me be stormy, let me be calm, Let the tide in and set me free.” The Who – Drowned.
Author: John
What’s in a name.
How many syllables, Dear Reader, are there in “car”? Yup, that’s right. One. So how many syllables are there in “C”? No, you’re quite right – it’s also one. So you would think there would be little point in replacing the word “Car” with “C”, would you? It’s not an improvement in terms of efficiency
Chilly for June
It’s -3.5 degrees outside (that’s Celsius, for those heathens who use the ‘F’ system). Which is chilly, but nice. It was about the same temperature yesterday as well, which made marching along Linlithgow High Street while playing a tuba interesting. Still, it was nice and christmassy. And cold. Oh so very cold.
Rediscovery
 I’ve been having a rummage through my music collection and listening to some stuff from the seventies and eighties (yeah, alright – I’m an old crumbly who was listening to music way back then). Anyway, I rediscovered Saxon! I’ve been ploughing through such epic albums as “Strong Arm of the Law”, “Denim & Leather”
Exhibition
My lovely lady wife has her first solo exhibition! Entitled ‘Organic Form: Exploration of Spirituality’, it will be on display in the upper foyer of The Regal Community Theatre, Bathgate, from Monday, 17 November, to 31 December. If you find yourself in West Lothian, it’s well worth a visit. It makes a change from the kind
My Day At Work
Honestly. There’s two ways I can describe today. Firstly, imagine I am separated from the rest of the office by a giant fishtank that fills my whole field of view. Now imagine that the fishtank is full of huge, twitching, orange octopi which are juggling hand grenades. Next, imagine there’s a slow-motion car crash involving
Warhammer: Age of Reckoning
God, I love this game. My main character (on Karak Izor, if anyone’s interested) is a Black Orc called Barukadur (I think the spelling is correct). He behaves the way a Black Orc should and basically thumps anything that gets in the way and is quite happy to change routes to make sure things get
The FAIL bot.
There are times when you just have to do things the hard way. For example, on finding a bug in a piece of software deployed to thirty-odd client systems, it would generally be considered a good idea to connect to those systems, ascertain whether or not said system was affected, and then patch and test