Monthly Archives: August 2006

About speaking to ducks

I know you’ve been waiting for it. Here is the promised wee talk about ducks. It’s been sitting in my blog drafts for a couple of days waiting for a moment to finish it. “What do you do when you … Continue reading

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Google PageRank of Google

Is there something wrong with my Google Toolbar for Firefox or does Google really not think much of itself? As you can see from the screenshot Google’s PageRank “is Google’s measure of the importance of [a Web] page”, and Google … Continue reading

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The book is finished!

At last, I’m done — and I’m fairly done in too! — the book manuscript is finished and awaiting posting. For those of you who may not know, since May I’ve been working on writing an update to the Hodder … Continue reading

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A kreative day

The last few days have seen me listening to a lot of thrash metal, death metal and generally rather extreme style music. Check out my Last.fm account and you’ll see what I mean: Slayer, Morbid Angel, Stone Sour, that sort … Continue reading

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The write place

God is good. I know that I’ve said it before, and I’ll probably get a load of comments claiming that God is good anyway regardless of the lovely things he does for Jane and I, and I quite agree … … Continue reading

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Bill Bailey – Steampunk

On Saturday night Jane and I got last-minute tickets (from a friend-of-a-friend) to Bill Bailey‘s Edinburgh Fringe show Steampunk. Sadly, it being the Fringe, the show only lasted for a few minutes over sixty before we were ushered out so … Continue reading

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Review: Lenovo 3000 C100

A couple of months ago I realised that I had the Scottish Episcopal Church youth camp approaching, for which I was requiring a PC to work on the daily ‘newspaper’. With various other web-based projects on the go and looming … Continue reading

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