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Don’t these guys ever tire of getting high and making music? Don’t they realise the fashion for attention spans is toward the shorter, these days?
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As two CDs have comprised around 95% of my music listening pleasure for the last four months, I can safely say that I have listened them to death and should be able to tell people something about them.

Describe Ozric Tentacles CDs. Ah yes, well there’s the trouble. Unlike most other musicians, the Ozrics deliberately make their music difficult to describe in words. Rather than asking “do you like our music?” the Ozrics ask “would you like to come on a journey with us?” Describing a journey through a physical landscape is taxing enough, but an aural landscape or soundscape? How does one begin?
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Why? For access to your search history from anywhere on the internet.

Just be careful with the weather. Given the limited range of regions and cities available, Google are likely using it to target advertising. If I can’t have the weather for Kota Kinabalu, the service is of no use to me.

Liberta and I are spending the first festive holy day in Norfolk.

“The House of Tiny Tearaways” is a programme on BBC3 where troubled families are helped to solve their discipline problems in a “Big Brother” style, reality TV format.

I find it interesting but a little disturbing, more so than most reality TV shows. Do these children know they are on public display? Is a TV show an appropiate setting in which to effect professional family therapy? Does anyone else who watches this programme wish to talk about it?
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On omnipotence, could an omnipotent being create something over which it had no power?
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Maybe I should have Dinner With Portillo.

My prospective employers felt that my ethos and approach to software engineering would not be of benefit when serving their customers. We’re a commercial organisation. We cannot do the right thing for all our clients all the time.

So, basically, all the depth of knowledge, innovation, creativity, service and quality I could bring to the relationship was not welcome.

How very British.

I humbly announce my latest mad invention. It is called Outreach.

Don’t ask me what it is because I won’t be able to stop telling you. Ask me instead how you can share and enjoy. It’s easy, fun and, unfortunately, educational.

The advent and continuing maturation of internet technologies, such as blogs, forums and on-line banking, is having a great impact on our daily lives. Never before have we been able to lose ourselves so satisfyingly in that greatest of challenges: the pursuit of cold, hard cash. I have an idea to share that might help.

Before considering participating you must be confident that you are;

1. knowledgeable on, or able to bullshit about, a range of subjects,
2. willing, able and competent to participate in rewarding public internet discussion about those subjects, and
3. serious about making money from doing that, even if only a little and even if you have to help other people to do it.

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