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It’s been lying forlornly next to my desk for over a year now, it’s 15″ monitor gathering dust. I keep meaning to re-format it, and do something with it, but what?

It has no USB ports, a PII chip, 128MB of RAM and a whopping 8GB hard disk.

Any suggestions?

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This’ll be brief. It’s Friday, you’ve got better places to waste your time and I’ve got no time to waste. Likely I’ll be working this weekend. Mis-communication at it’s worst. Ho fuckin hum.

Finished reading Michael Marshall Smith’s One of Use. Very good. If a tad odd towards the end. Don’t want to say anything and I would recommend it to others… if you HAVE read it… well you’ll know what I’m talking about.

Things I won’t be covering today:
1. Celtic – well done, although I’m still surprised that the press are surprised by this as they made it all the way to the final last year with the same team!
2. Haywood and Padgett’s All Butter Melters – get thee down to your local and buy some. Just don’t look at the ‘nutritional information’ (you’ll need a large glass of milk to go with them too).
3. The fact that, having just had a deadline re-introduced, that bloody Rolling Stones track is playing again. What is this? Karmic retribution via iTunes??? Time is NOT on my side!!

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See, I DO listen:

1. Main column is slightly wider (by about 30 pixels or 3-4 words).
2. Text is slightly lighter (not much but it is… might tweak it a little more).
3. New title… sort of… why? www.gordonmclean.com and www.gordonmclean.co.uk is why.

Up next, show/hide for the blogroll and the archives, and a few other tweaks.

UPDATE: Tweaking the text colours at the moment. But I think it looks pretty good. Especially as I just kinda “knocked it up in an evening” ;-P (check the comments…)

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Today is not Thursday. Today is meeting day. I will return at some point, until then I give you the following. It was culled from a mailing list and seems to be equally valid for those who indulge in this world we call ‘blog’.


You are in a large lecture hall… the speaker is boring, or off-topic, or offends you, or is speaking about something you don’t understand. Since you are an adult, you can choose how you react:

1. Jump up on the podium and beat the speaker with the microphone.
2. Complain to the manager of the lecture hall.
3. Wait for the Q&A session, then ask the speaker a pertinent question.
4. Research the speaker’s topic and think about it for a while. There, you just learned something new.
5. Ignore the speaker and talk to the people next to you. Hey, the stuffed chicken is not too bad, and look! You can order drinks here!
6. Wait quietly for the next speaker. After all, the lecture was free, and you can’t expect to be happy with every topic.
7. Leave the lecture hall and come back later.
8. Leave the lecture hall and never come back.

All those for option 1!

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Remember the stuff I had to sort out?

Well I went list crazy last night, and brain dumped a lot of stuff this morning. Much clearer now, if no less daunting.

As the Rolling Stones said (and are actually playing right at this very moment) “Time is on my side”.

Ohh and a top tip for iTunes/iPOD users. If you want to filter tracks so that some never ever appear on your iPOD, but don’t want to do it by rating, date played etc… just use the Comments box. You can tag multiple tracks with, for example, “ipod” and build a Smart Playlist around that condition.

Example: Comment contains “ipod”, Rating is *****. Simple.