Author: John

Wonderings and Ponderings

I wonder if using a garish and hideously bright wordpress theme could consitute an actual act of assult. See, I like this one – I munged it many years ago when the intertubes were less slick that they are now, and it reminded me (at the time) of serial consoles, blurry crt displays and nice

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ACE Lyric #9

“His skin’s all covered in slimey lumps, with lips that slide across his cheeks, his twisted limbs like rubber stumps, slubberdygullions on squeaky feet.” Genesis – The Colony of Slippermen

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Who Knew?

This post was made from Windows Live Writer and it’s actually surprisingly nice! And that’s the only purpose to the post. I have nothing more to say about that.

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Grr!

One of the FAILpods in my office has just suggested it may be time for me to “update my Desktop Environment”. I may have to stab him to death using a broken Vista install disk….

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Last post of 2008

I’m taking a leaf out of RedSmartie’s book here and doing a quick run down. 2008, all in all, his been pretty grim. So many things that were fine before seem to be irrepairably broken and as the months went by I just seem to have lost the energy or will to try and fix

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Half-Life 2 – Complet0r4t0r1z0red

Well, it’s been out a good couple of years now, but I’ve finally finished Half-Life 2 – and it was completely awesome, if incomprehensible. I still have no idea what any of it was about, but I had a lot of fun not knowing. High Points: Pitched battles with Striders in the streets – I

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FAIL

Clearly, I lose at blog updating. It’s the whole Christmas thing that causes it. Rushing about, worrying, not getting any sleep, worrying some more, and then – finally – the long soulless purgatory that is January. Still, the new build of WordPress is very nice – the dash is just ACE. So it’s not all

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Winterness.

Brr! It’s a bit chilly out! -4 last night, apparently. So, an icy foggy drive into work followed by hanging over the radiator gossiping and drinking giant mugs of coffee was required. Wandered down to the harbour at lunchtime – the yachts which have been left in the water have iced riggings and look very

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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.

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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

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