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Grump…
Spent the last two and a half hours setting up a server on my comp. I need one to properly teach myself PHP, and to also test out various CMSs and doing it all remotely is too slow. I’ve got Apache, PHP5 and MySQL installed and configured, but the blimmin’ PHPadmin keeps telling [...]
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Reading a couple of other blogs….
One is of a graphic artist/designer. Let’s call him Eejit. Never met him. but last year, he and I had an electronic spat when I dared to criticise his ghastly frames-ridden website in my blog. He was enormously childish about it. Not only was he personally abusive and [...]
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Musings
I don’t do much artwork any more. And I’ve been asking myself why. Mainly, I just don’t feel compelled the way I used to be, to get out my sketchbook or my painting boards and express something graphically.
When they ask why I’m not painting any more, I make the excuse to people that I [...]
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Getting Political…
This morning, there was more bad news for the Home Office: Hundreds of inmates have escaped from open prisons. Shouldn’t the Home Office now consider a change of name? How about “The Lights Are On But Nobody’s Home Office”?
And the ever-excellent Charlie Stross weighs in with a third blog post on the insuperable [...]
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Quick update
Been quite a busy week again. Advanced my plans for making money online, and got a couple of new websites up.
Got some new photos, but can’t upload them to my photoblog – probably because I’ve hit their storage limit. So I’ll look at Flickr now for a photogallery.
Son is supposed to move [...]
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The Bluebells of Scotland
Went into the woods this morning and got some pics of the bluebells. They’re late in blooming this year, as everything is. But now they’re out, it’s a beautiful sight!
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Albinos Protest Against Da Vinci Code
First it was Opus Dei, then it was the Catholics. Now albinos have it in for Dan Brown’s bestseller:
As Tom Hanks’ “The Da Vinci Code� opening looms May 19, featuring an albino character as a murderous, self-flagellating monk, a Hingham-born albino moviemaker is set to screen his own film tomorrow in Boston that wryly [...]
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The Importance of Blasphemy
Don’t have time to read all this article now, but it seems to have some good points:
Something terribly important has been missing from discussions orbiting around the Mohammed cartoons. It’s a simple point, but one whose recognition is utterly crucial to the functioning of a healthy democratic society. The avoidance of it is, I’m afraid, [...]
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