Shaggy Blog Stories

Reading time: < 1 min UPDATE: The deadline has been pulled FORWARD. You have until 6pm on Tuesday 13th March (that’s tonight!) How tardy of me. At some point, deep in the midst of my brain-melting week, I received an email from mike. Mike had had a big idea. That, in itself, is nothing new. Mike has big ideas all…

Last week…

Reading time: < 1 min Hello all, apologies for my absence last week, couldn’t be helped, c’est la vie and all that. So a quick catchup. Last week was my induction week for Graham Technology and the only downside is that it made me feel very old. This is only because the majority of the other ‘new starts’ were fresh…

Still here…

Reading time: < 1 min … just busy and without a home PC until Saturday. Normal service will be resumed soon. Whatever the hell that is…

Cynic-less

Reading time: 2 mins I must be getting old. I’m losing my cynicism. Or rather, I’m refusing to be curtailed by it, and I’m stating this now so you can all point this out later on when I suddenly perform a dramatic U-turn. Which reminds me, to the lorry driver in front of me this morning, yes you. The…

Eagles of Death Metal

Reading time: 2 mins First time I’ve been in the ABC in Glasgow and as first impressions are, supposedly, important then I think my relationship with the venue is off to a flying start. Small without being dingy, large enough to hold a big crowd without feeling crammed in, it’s an ideal venue for all but the largest acts.…

Miscellany

Reading time: 3 mins Vroooommm click Wouldn’t it be cool if you had a front mounted camera on your car. How many times have you been driving along, admiring the view laid out before you, without anyway of stopping and capturing it? Those mornings when the sun is streaming dramatically through the clouds, whilst some idiot is 2 feet…