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Phoenix Rising
People deal with bereavement in different ways. I keep sadness private and gallows humour public. So just a warning that you’re going to get a bit of that. It’s an…
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Stacy Glasier / Ellard 1967 – 2015
You have burned so very very brightly.Rest in peace. Thank you all for your kind words. When somebody ends their life, the best remedy is make the most of yours.…
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Horse eBooks
For the last week I’ve had no phone line, no internet except that which comes over the ‘smart phone’. Holy Shit how do people ‘consume’ through that tenuous porthole? Here’s…
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Praise for ‘Walkies’
There is a kind of computer game where the player travels a world, first person, and takes in the sights. There’s a back story, often a mystery that needs exploring,…
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Clifford Darling
Working on Clifford Darling now. This was a compilation album called in by Ink records in 1985, which was to collect all the stuff made before Since The Accident. So…
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Kurt Vonnegut explained the death of education long ago
Back in 1952, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a novel called Player Piano. Back sometime in the 70’s I read a copy. Now I get to live it. If it weren’t for…
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HH Part 2
Miracles occur only at great distances. Go back to the start of time and a single dot expands to be the universe. Go to the extreme of scale and particles…
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HH Part 1
This is the back story to HH, written in episodes running from 24th Feb to 29th March 2015. It was part of creating a consistent world for a sequel called…
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World’s least interesting blog entry
Somebody tried to mail something to me that completely rooted the sevcom server in Texas. If you sent me a mail in the last day or so, you’ll need to…
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Whatever happened to Something Awful?
If Something Awful was completely without merit, there would be no problem. Shit is shit and let’s run this shit into the ground as they say in one of the…