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We lost a family member last night…
My wife and I have always had cats – folks who know me may remember the comment I often make that I love my cats more than I love the vast majority of human beings. Whilst I say it with a smile, I sometimes think there’s a large amount of truth in that statement, particularly
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-13
All this 'lots of love' from Cameron. Makes me a bit sick in my mouth. PM acting like a lovestruck schoolboy. #lol #leveson #cameron # All this 'lots of love' from Cameron. Makes me a bit sick in my mouth. PM acting like a lovestruck schoolboy. # My elance profile https://t.co/Vvp9erUj # Powered by Twitter
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Happy (Belated) Birthday Speccy!
It always takes me a while to catch up with things, but it was recently the 30th Birthday of the Sinclair Spectrum. Like many of a certain age, the Speccy was one of the computers on which I cut my teeth. I was lucky enough to have been exposed to most of the popular home computers
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-29
A new Joe's Jotting – http://t.co/gG0lZb42 #joesjottings #johnnycash # Powered by Twitter Tools
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Google Drive…to get your stuff.
I’ve always had the attitude that any company that has to remind it’s staff to ‘Do No Evil’ is either employing the wrong sort of people or is trying hard to hide the fact that they might not be paragons of virtue. This week my increasingly hardcore anti-Google attitude was turned up another notch by
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Variations on a Spotify theme…..
I found out tonight that there are over 70 versions of the Bob Dylan song ‘All along the watchtower’ on the online music service Spotify. I sort of worry that there might soon be a ‘Watchtower radio’ channel online somewhere that plays nothing but versions of the song – and, of course, there are songs
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-22
Whoops! Need to watch which WordPress buttons I press!! # Last year, Osbourne said that UK would give no more money to IMF. £10 bn later….can we all say 'Bunch of lying cuntservatives?' # My later 'Joe's Jotting' – what makes for a competent human being? http://t.co/jgQVhwZo # Hmph….Worldpay refuse to activate one of our
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Johnny Cash and me.
An early memory of mine is listening to my Uncle Idris play Johnny Cash songs on his guitar. Particularly he did a great rendition of ‘Ring of Fire’, though without the Mexican trumpets, Mexican trumpeters being singularly rare in the town of Warsop in the 1960s. Back then, Cash was a big name, although I’m
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The Competent Person….
The ‘Competent Man’ (or woman) is a character in literature who has a vast range of skills and abilities that make them appear to be capable of doing anything. Classic male examples are Jeeves or Angus MacGyver. Now, I’m pretty sure that I’m not one of these mythical men, but I was reminded of this creature