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Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:35:54 -0800

Poem: The Old Battery Hen
An elderly ex-battery hen is like a sweet ghost made from weathered feathers, and glass; fragile yet determined, she...
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Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:35:51 -0800

What happened to our cockerels
Four of our cockerels hatched this year went to their one new home almost a fortnight ago, and you can now read all about the...
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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:47:39 -0800

New contact page plugin installed
I’ve been meaning to change the plugin I use for the contact page for some time now. I noticed some messages were coming...
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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:33:31 -0800

Past half-way with NaNoWriMo, here’s a taster of a book being born…
Yesterday was Day 10 of NaNoWriMo and I reached 25,992 words by the time I had to close up the laptop and go to my night class....
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:09:35 -0800

The Sun will use anyone, and anything, to smear Gordon Brown – especially grieving mothers
If it were stated baldly that a national British newspaper is running a daily campaign to destroy the career of a disabled man,...
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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:42:40 -0800

Press Complaints Commission ‘whitewash’ criticised by MPs
Image by Getty Images via Daylife I dubbed the Press Complaints Commission last week the Daily Mail Support Group, but it...
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Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:12:02 -0800

The Daily Mail Support Group, aka the Press Complaints Commission
“Isn’t it charming how homosexuals rally like-minded chaps to their cause?” is not a homophobic comment,...
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Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:26:04 -0800

Three strikes and only the stupid will be punished
As it’s a copyright violation to sing in the bath, can we expect the unelected Peter Mandelson–who these days has...
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Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:20:18 -0800

New money just means we’re half-living on borrowed time
Where new money is printed for greedy bankers to stash away. Image by BlatantNews.com via Flickr. Another £25bn to...
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Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:16:40 -0800

The 365 day comment rule now applies
I swear, I could sometimes die of boredom when it comes to spammers and their tired tactic of posting crappy comments on very...
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Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:12:55 -0800

Writing is magick
Image by neighBORROW.com via Flickr I was watching TV tonight and around 9.35pm the ending of the novel I’m writing...
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Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:20:02 -0800

Day 3 of NaNoWriMo
On day 3 of NaNoWriMo my word count stands at 8,458–only 41,542 words to add to that total before midnight on November...
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Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:04:10 -0800

Can’t run TweetDeck 0.31.3
I get seriously pissed when software updates are released that are flaky, but more so when one of my favourite Twitter clients...
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Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:13:15 -0800

More on writing on day 2 of NaNoWriMo
Image by oddsock via Flickr I managed to write 3,184 words today bringing my total up to 6,055 on day 2 of NaNoWriMo. If...
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Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:16:12 -0800

The first day of NaNoWriMo
Image by mpclemens via Flickr Heavy driving rain this morning, with gale force winds. It’s so bad I am thinking of...
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Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:08:25 -0700

Apple TV 3.0 review
When Apple released version 3.0 of the Apple TV software this week I didn’t rush straightaway to install after the...
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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:19:24 -0700

Mulder has FOUR wings – not three!
It’s one surprise after another. Mulder, our much-trumpeted three-winged cockerel, does not have three wings after all....
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Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:43:34 -0700

Gearing up for NaNoWriMo
Image by Simon Gurr via Flickr The US-initiated and oddly-named National Novel Writing Month (because it is open to anyone...
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Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:50:08 -0700

Meaties and veggies who serve up poison are not the change-makers we need
If I had as much passion for onions, peppers and potatoes as some meat-eaters have for bacon, chicken and beef, and was as...
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Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:20:54 -0700

I don’t get cats
I love ‘em but I definitely don’t get ‘em: cats are the strangest creatures sometimes. Just when we think...
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Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:42:18 -0700

Site back up now Midphase is just a really bad memory
Apologies to those among you who tried to access the site since the middle of last week, and instead were redirected toa crappy...
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Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:41:34 -0700

Poem: The Locket
I wear the locket because it contains a portion of you, just a tiny amount of hair groomed in the goodbye. Has it really been...
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Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:39:28 -0700

Petition the government to make the Press Complaints Commission a public body
Stephen Gately via last.fm After receiving over 22,000 complaints from the British public last weekend over the vile Jan...
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Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:21:53 -0700

Jan Moir scandal would go unnoticed in virtual enclaves of paid-for content
It occurred to me over the weekend in light of the Jan Moir controversy that the push towards paid-for online content by Rupert...
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Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:01:38 -0700

Why there was nothing ‘natural’ about Jan Moir A strange, lonely and troubling death…
A dead career at 87: Jan Moir The news of the death of Jan Moir’s career was deeply shocking. It was not just that another...
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