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Lyle is moaning about those little “Contains” taglines films have these days (moaning is the wrong word I think, but it’s late and I’m knackered).

So a little digging reveals that they are just an extension of that little grid you get on the back of videos/DVDs indicating the content of the movie: Consumer advice – or why a film or video has received a particular classification.

So, if you had to provide a “Contains….” tagline for this site. What would it be? Prize for the best one.

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bookmark_borderLimbering up

So congratulations to Porto for winning the Champions League. The new Chelsea manager seems like a bit of an odd bloke, so he’ll fit in at Stamford Bridge quite well.

Anyhoo, we were visiting a friend tonight who is recuperating after an operation on her back, there was some talk of the details but thankfully my squeam-o-meter kicked in and disengaged my brain before any of them made it too far. Ick.

Mind you, after four swift bottles of Corona I’m feeling a tad light-headed (christ, what a light-weight I’m becoming) so it’ll be off to bed for me soon.

But not before I mention that I’ll be buying Jordan’s “autobiography” at the weekend. No, not for me, it’s been requested as a birthday present for someone, and no I won’t be borrowing it as I’m not the slightest bit bothered about that “celebrity”. The birthday in question is my brother-in-laws girlfriend’s and will involve a 3pm start in a pub in the West End of Glasgow (somewhere in Ashton Lane). I’ve already written off Sunday.

bookmark_borderNot here

This is rapidly turning into the week that never was.

Still ‘fatigued’. Stressing about loads of stuff and just can’t be arsed with any of it.

I want to go lock myself in a room (preferably armed with a sniper rifle and a little peep hole – ooeerr…) and never come out.

[Insert random chain of sweary words here]

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bookmark_borderPrisoner

Prompted by this post by that man Sevitz.

I’ve linked to this before (but can’t find where as the search engine is still catching up since the domain/server move), and notice that it’s also been updated concerning the “parallels with the recent abuse of Iraqi prisoners”.

The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment.

“Our planned two-week investigation into the psychology of prison life had to be ended prematurely after only six days because of what the situation was doing to the college students who participated. In only a few days, our guards became sadistic and our prisoners became depressed and showed signs of extreme stress.”

Well worth a look and I’m surprised I’ve not mentioned it before now.

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bookmark_borderEr…. nope, nothing to say

Tired. Ohhh so very tired. Think I’ve got a wee bug of some sort that is sapping me of all my energy.

Bleuch.

Whilst I remember, any Firefox users out there? How do I get rid of the ‘remembered’ form information. It’s annoying the crap outta me having to remember to change the URL in ever comment box I visit. I’d rather wipe out all the entries and start over. Help!

bookmark_borderScottish Blogs

So, it’s live. Ish. Almost. Well it IS live. Taking submissions and all that. There are a few minor tweaks to be sorted, but overall I’m happy with it.

The main problem has been figuring a way to handle both the webring AND a “directory” site. In the end I decided to leave them as separate entities as getting the two systems talking was just proving too darn hard (especially as one of the systems is outwith my control).

It’s been fun really, learning all this new PHP stuff, and that process will continue as I tweak the site, fix known bugs, add new features, but for the meantime I’m just happy to say that THE NEW SCOTTISH BLOGS SITE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS.

Thanks to those of you who helped out by answering all my stupid questions, it was very much appreciated, as ever, and I know this site has little bearing on a lot of you, but I REALLY would appreciate some feedback – ohh and I’ll be hand checking all the new sites for the first wee while, so no funny business!