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The Emperors New Movie Clerks

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While listening to a podcast a few days ago, the movie “Clerks” came up, and I realised I had not seen it. A quick search on Amazon revealed it for a reasona...

Clerks 2 And The Great Redemption

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I like to finish things. I might not finish them immediately, but there is some weird, screwed up part of my head that likes things to be orderly - in the ri...

A Social Networking Sht Storm Of My Own Making

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When you’re busy fiddling with something interesting, it’s easy to become so engrossed in “the next thing” that you forget all about the trail of things you ...

Lunchtime Redesign Of Cheese And Beans

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I got a virtualmacheteout this lunchtime, and set about hacking lumps from my personal blog. I have been looking a the “Thesis” default template recently, an...

The School Barbecue

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This afternoon we all trooped off to one of the several events throughout the year at the primary school two of our girls attend. Well troop is somewhat of a...

Ducks In A Row

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I have been meddling with the various places that I hold accounts on the internet this eveningtrying to bring the same username into effect everywhere (as mu...

Contemplating Another Twitter Cull

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Back when twitter was shiny, new and horrendously unstable, it was also interesting; or rather the people who frequented it were. Popularity heralded the arr...

Acronyms

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Why are some people preoccupied with acronyms, or catch phrases ? I’m going to theorise that those who include them in their general vocabulary are perhaps e...

Preparing For Adventure As King Of The Nerds

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I’m not actually sure if the next few days of my professional career can be regarded as adventure or not. Of course, given the usual constraints on that whic...