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Ramblings / November 30, 2008 / John / 1
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.
Ramblings / November 22, 2008 / John / 3
 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”
Ramblings / November 18, 2008 / John / 0
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
Ramblings / November 10, 2008 / John / 0
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
Game Diary / November 10, 2008 / John / 0
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
Ramblings / October 31, 2008 / John / 0
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
Geekery / October 30, 2008 / John / 0
Well, there’s a turn up for the books! It appears that Phorm are being dropped by Orange. Hopefully more ISPs will follow suit. In an interview with the Financial Times, a representative from Orange said: “Privacy is in our DNA, so we need to be honest and clear about what we are doing. We have