Author Archives: adrian
Blame Canada!
Pointed out on #ukmg by pádraig, this Wired article article tells of a Canadian man who found his Ebay purchase was cancelled by the American seller. The reason given was that the seller, a company called CompAtlanta has the following … Continue reading
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It’s springing out there
There are lots of opportunities to discuss dark and negative subjects right now. I think it behoves us (ie we who are not directly involved in fighting a war) at least to keep abreast of the broad issues and arguments … Continue reading
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A weekend in Ulf’s town
The weekend’s over, although the freakishly fine weather looks like continuing for another day or two. With unusually (for us) good timing, Nicola was at a conference in Preston on Friday, so we decided to take geographical advantage of this … Continue reading
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The euphemised language of war
Lubin Odana writes of the effect of war on language. We’ve already had the eye-popping stupidity of Freedom Fries, but look out for lots of euphemistical and tactical mangling of the English language during the coming days/months/years (delete as fatalistically … Continue reading
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War begins in the small hours
Well, it’s all started. In the middle of last night, somewhat inevitably, the US launched a small number of cruise missile and bomb strikes against Baghdad. Tony Blair only received two hours’ warning of the attack, which suggests (as did … Continue reading
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Keneally in the UK!
Last week was particularly good for me in a musical sense. As you may know (I hardly hide the fact) I’m a quite hopelessly dribbling fanboy when it comes to Mike Keneally. I’ve been buying his albums since the first … Continue reading
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Ypres
Last Friday, four of us went to Belgium for the weekend. Now, Belgium’s always a fine place to visit on account of the fantastic beer culture they have. Add to that the art and architecture of towns such as Bruges, … Continue reading
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Freedom fries
Via Michael Pierry in the alt.music.mike-keneally newsgroup comes the story of freedom fries. If there are any French people reading this blog, I suggest you go out and burn down your local McDonalds.
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Comments – a consensus emerges
Okay, so three people have emailed me and told me I should add comments. That’s good enough for me. However, I find the Grey Matter manual slightly confusing on the subject of comments, so I’m going to do a bit … Continue reading
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Webstats again
Another idle browse through the webstats for this site. Some poor (and probably quite disappointed) sod ended up here after doing a search for ‘porn in spaghetti’. I’m not entirely sure what this person was looking for. I’m guessing there … Continue reading
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