Dec 31
Round this time of year, you do often find yourself in the mood for lists. Earlier today, I was listening to one of my favourite albums, Dog Man Star and mused over how many great tracks there were on the album that never made the light of day as singles. And naturally that leads on to “So what are the best album tracks ever?“. The definition being any...
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I‘m not one for New Year resolutions. I have always contended that if you want to do something, just do it. Don’t wait for an arbitrary point in time start. (Same goes for the “I’ll start my diet next week” crowd). So, instead of resolutions, I thought I list some things I would like to achieve in 2008 and see how I do against that list...
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It is said that time adds a rosy hue to most things. And the urge to be and feel young again drives a seemingly unquenchable thirst for nostalgia and unending mutterings of how “things were better then”. There is one area of such nostalgia for people* of my vintage that seems to have me in a very tight grip. The sights, sound and memories associated with...
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Oh look shiny toys! I briefly wandered off the “getting the book publishing done” to spend a few fun days finally getting something together for scottliddell.net, the long since abandoned photography only site. I got up early one Sunday morning and just built a very basic layout with much of the CSS I had already. It worked OK, I much prefer it to the...
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After almost interminable provarication, I finally decided on my publishing name, so, gentle reader, I give you “Closed Loop Publishing” (Yes, I have got a degree in Electronics, very rarely referenced and almost entirely forgotten.) Now I have to prepare the book for publication. Good news is that review is flooded in. A creditable “enjoyable...
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