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Category: Ramblings
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
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
Communing with my Inner Idiot
So I was woken up the other day by the sound of Son #2 leaping about excitedly because The Goon Show was on the radio. (Actually, it was the TV, as that’s where our digital reception comes from, but let’s not let today’s climate of technological ambiguity get in the way). So, as I was
Magic: The Gathering
 Well, I promised my lad I’d have a few games of Magic with him at the weekend. The trouble is, he has a Mortivore. It’s a pretty rare card, and it’s rare because it’s bloomin’ evil. In two ways. First of all, its strength and toughness are equal to the number of cards in
AWESOME!
I know this SHOULDN’T be awesome, but IT ACTUALLY IS. When the BBC post an article entitled something like “Pirates Threaten Christmas Shopping”, it gets an automatic eyeroll for me, half expecting it to be a rant comparing unauthorised copying of music/moves/whatever to pillage and murder on the high seas. Clearly, the irony is lost