Category: Ramblings

Destructive little morons

Why is it that the above title fits so many kids these days? There’s a particularly repellent little reptile who lives across the road from us who only seems to be able to express himself by destroying things. As an example, my four year old daughter drew a little picture and stuck it on the

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Nelefa has moved! Again!

It’s not situated in t’US, courtesy of a very good little hosting company called challengehost.com. Being moveable type, it was very easy to shift without any downtime as well.

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Stand up and be counted

Not much time left – the government are getting ready to steamroller the ID card bill through parliament. That means that each and every one of us will be made to go to a police station to be fingerprinted and possibly retina scanned so that our every movement, purchase and library borrow will eventually be

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Tiger Tiger

Well, Mac OS 10.4 is out – so what’s it like? In a word, lovely. One minor hiccup is that my SpeedTouch 330 USB ADSL modem no longer works but as it’s a huge resource hog at the best of times this isn’t a great loss. Spotlight is the thing that’s grabbed me the most

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No games, just lots and lots of snow.

It was bizarre. It took 45 minutes to do a 5 minute drive, because the wheels kept on spinning and the car was skiting all over the road. People had given up on our hill and just abandoned their cars at the road end, the schools were closed, and the kids were having a great

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Prizewinner Feb 2005

Its Debbie here. Long time since I posted ;-). The kids and I went to a Prizewinning Ceremony and Art Exhibition at the Scottish Mining Museum on Friday. It was the Big Draw – Big Machines Art competition that took place in all the Midlothian Schools last Autumn. Various children from Tristan’s school had entered

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BBC NEWS | Politics | Blair defends house arrest plan

Well there we have it. That lovely Mr Blair would like to follow in the footsteps of Apartheid by giving law enforcement officials the power to effectively imprison and silence anyone the state considers to be a supporter of “terrorism”. Without trial, without being required to provide any evidence whatsoever. Does posting this blog entry

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A ramble!

There haven’t been many rambles on here of late – it’s really just been the game diary that’s been getting postings. Anyhoo, I’m here now. First off, homeAudit has been doing very well of late – it seems to have attracted a fairly large audience. Just as well, really, because I’ve been spending a lot

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