Blog in Isolation

There is a radiant darkness upon us

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in memoriam

Apologies for the delayed transmission but the events of last Saturday left me traumatised and deeply shocked.

You might find it hard to believe that a once great club has been relegated to Division 2.

You might even shed a tear for the diminutive, chirpy, cheeky Cockney who manages this football club.

You might hope and pray that this sleeping giant makes a rapid return to the heady heights of, err, the Championship.

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a day in the life

A blog post in the classic retro style of ‘Dear Diary’. Stay tuned next week for relationship woes, football reports, psychotherapy, unexpunged details on my health, teenage angst, my current mood, the music I am listening to and why I am going to be quiet for the next 13 days.

Or, as Mark E. Smith of The Fall, once said to requests for ‘Bingo Masters Breakout’

‘Are you still doing what you did 5 years ago ?’ ‘Yeah - well don’t make a career out of it.’

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attention all Oracle bloggers

Dust off that blogroll. Highlight your best technical posts. Update that photo in the ‘About’ tab. Polish the colours on your theme. Prime the hit counter and prepare for an invasion from the Web 2.0 ‘A’ listers.

Justin Kestelyn (Oracle Technical Network) sparked some an interesting and though provoking discussion when he puzzled over the relatively low profile of Oracle Corporation in the Web 2.0 community.

Robert Scoble picked up the thread (twice) and there are some interesting comments. Certainly, I’d love to see a Scoble podcast from Oracle Corporation.

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my plans for the future

The climax of the football season is currently dominating my life somewhat. However, I feel obliged to inform the world of my exciting plans for the next fortnight.

Following next week’s UK Bank Holiday, the scheduling goddess informs me me that I will be doing a ‘brown bag’. This means that next Tuesday will see me wandering aimlessly around the shopping precinct in Reading, spontaneously shouting at shoppers while clutching four cans of Special Brew in a brown bag.

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another legal battle

I received a summons yesterday for non-payment of council tax. Ah well. It was good while it lasted. I reckon at £1,000 each year for 10 years residence at this address, I probably saved in excess of £10,000.

Still, all good things must come to an end. What a pity those rotters at the council caught up with me.

Then I realised - I already pay my council tax automatically by direct debit to fund the firemen, refuse collectors, recycling collections, the lengthy queues at the tip on a Sunday morning, the multitude of speed bumps and liquid lunches for the fine councillors of this parish.

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Nazi bus inspector killed my daughter

I am very lazy. It takes a gargantuan effort for me to maintain motivation and continue making material up for this blog.

Therefore, actually sitting down, in my own time, to compose a letter to appeal against a £20 fine imposed by Transport For London on my 14 year old daughter, Norma Jean, was not a task I undertook lightly.

I didn’t appeal because I can’t afford the £20.

I didn’t appeal because I think my daughter is above the law.

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migration of photo blog

Yahoo! kindly chose to close my Flickr! account because it was associated with an additional email and not my primary Yahoo Id. I contacted support in an effort to resurrect my Flickr account but to no avail.

So, goodbye Flickr and hello Picasa. To get things underway, I proudly present a couple of poor quality camera phone shots from my recent stays in anonymous and overpriced hotels in Cardiff and Oxford respectively.

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