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Five in a row

I was challenged the other night to write a proper English sentence that has five consecutive “ands” in it. I was unable to manage it but my friend did with this: A sign maker delivers a new sign to the owner of the local pub, the Coach and Horse. When he unveils it the owner says, [...]
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Typography

Apologies for the lack of content lately but as you can see I’ve been tweaking the blog a bit. I’ve been working with a “framework” for theme design which allows me to create a sort of sub theme in which I have worked to create an attractive (I hope) layout that focuses on content and [...]
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video

Visual Music – Amon Tobin music video from 12FRAMES on Vimeo.
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3-2-1

for the musicians among my readership (there might be one, come on!) I have a great new site for you. The title above refers to the basic time signature of old English hornpipe music. the site (see blow) is a sort of file sharing service for sheet music. ABC Notation It’s a way of transcribing music. [...]
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‘millions of words’

“To write, I meditated, must be an act devoid of will. The word, like a deep ocean current, has to float to the surface of its own impulse. A child has no need to write, he is innocent. A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way [...]
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Six weeks

A few months ago I took a holiday. I went off to London, England for a while, six weeks. It was nice. I was alone to do what I needed but it ended sadly when I had to come home to deal with a sick cat who died shortly after my return. I’m glad I [...]
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3,2,1…

And we’re back The forums have been completely revamped and the entire site moved to a new host. Enjoy
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14,000,000 bacteria in each container

yougurt..great stuff. New ones brag about being pro-biotic. Woopy fricken do. 14,000,000 little bactria all waiting to make my belly active. And just one con-biotic one and oops…open the flood gates. All it takes is one person to cough on you in a bus and one little bastard bacteria lands on you and whammo: You’re puking [...]
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zillions

There are literally zilions of them: youtube videos. So many videos that it boggles the mind. I have recently added a little tool on the music page that lets me show videos from Youtube’s massive database. I was poking around with search tags and found some rather interesting stuff and not surprisingly some amazing crap. The [...]
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one deer alone on the roadside

It was a pretty obvious but still sad sight. As we walked along the country road we turned a wide curve and there, on the far side of the ditch and between the roadway and a thicket of blackberry plants was a deer, laying and watching us. The island is filled (some say infested) with [...]
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