A miscellany of opinions, thoughts, rants and comments
They’re all stuck.
Look at me.
Silence is gray.
Silence is golden.
Silence is a stone in my mouth.
Nobody can see me.
I had no idea.
They’re going to miss me.
Here we go again.
What is she thinking?
17 years…
If I had a gun.
How’m I gonna do this?
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
They that sow in tears shall reap [...]
Ten years is a long time. Ten years ago, as the 90s slipped into the noughties, I marked New Year by combining the roles of DJ at a millennium night party and being on call for PSINet UK as lead tech support contact for the Y2K response team. In the end, the millennium bug turned out to [...]
Awoke to the sound of wind and rain, elements lashing the bedroom window, wheels splashing in the road. Cats cowering in the kitchen, unwilling to risk the perils that lie beyond the flap. Short walk to the newsagents, streets unusually deserted even for a Sunday morning, fallen leaves swirling round my feet and tumbling, twisting [...]
n. Opposition to the state acknowledgement of Jedi as a recognised religion.
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n. Generic name for the style of website design which attempts to mimic popular social networking sites.
I’ve added a Google Friend Connect widget to my blog. Friend Connect is, supposedly, Google’s answer to Facebook, MySpace, etc, as it allows individual blogs to be connected through a similal system of social networking.
I have no idea whether it’s going to be any use or not, but it’s worth a try.
This has been doing the rounds of Facebook and mailing lists recently:
1 – Go to “wikipedia.” Hit “random” or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 – Go to “Random quotations” or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is [...]
In honour of this year’s contribution to Comic Relief by Peter Kay, here’s yet another take on the well-known song….
When I wake up, yeah I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who wakes up for a beer
When I go out, yeah I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who goes out [...]
I’ve got my name mentioned in the Backbytes section of Computing magazine. For some reason, I am disproportionately pleased about this.