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This Reality – test post

28 February 2008

Move along, there’s nothing to see (or hear) here. 🙂 Just a test podcast post using the original test audio file, to see if the

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A103 TMA07

28 February 20083 May 2012

TMA07: Block 5 comparison This assignment related to Block 5 and you will be dealing with two different works. When you have completed the assignment,

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A103 TMA06

28 February 2008

Religious Studies or History of Science This assignment relates to Block 4. When you have completed it, please send it to your tutor to arrive

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Did the earth move for you too?

27 February 200827 February 2008

Well I felt it. The earthquake. At 00.57 I was woken by the whole house vibrating and a deep rumbling (as though a fleet of

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Top workery

26 February 2008

Look, English isn’t my first language. And besides, the English language isn’t static; English is an evolutionary beast, it changes with each generation. And if

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Drinking on the hoof

25 February 2008

Lunch is a take-away cardboard mug of latte as I jog down the road to Maplins. It has a lid. The latte. Well, I expect

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A big day out

25 February 200825 February 2008

OMG there’s a guy over there – a student – whose ring tone is ‘Jerusalem’. But not in a good way, I mean in a

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Road (train) trip – the first Monday

24 February 200824 February 2008

Tomorrow I shall be leaving my fellow motorists unscared as I swap my driving gloves (not really) for a return rail ticket from Bromsgrove to

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Oh the irony

24 February 200824 February 2008

But for some reason… Amusing in a very wrong way. B.

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Low fly, no fly, can’t fly?

24 February 200824 February 2008

First in this post, to Switzerland. Land of the cuckoo clock (even though it was a German invention), numbered account and the world’s most secretive

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Turkeys!

24 February 200824 February 2008

This should so be a podcast item, there’s lots of audio potential with the right library files! The people of Eire have chosen a puppet

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The sound of absolute drivel

23 February 200825 February 2015

The first test podcast for This Reality has been produced. Actually, produced is a massive overstatement for something that’s so hilariously bad. But at least

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Being very bad in the bedroom

22 February 2008

I’m lying in bed fiddling with something very hard. While my wife is downstairs preparing tomorrow’s lunch. I’m feeling slightly – but only slightly –

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You’re for the high jump, me lad

20 February 200820 February 2008

We’re gearing up for the Eventing season, me and Vin. Well, when I say ‘we’ what I really mean is: * I have been making

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Rndm txts agn. Agn

19 February 20083 May 2012

There are 176 texts in my phone inbox. Yeah, I’m just a digital hoarder. But now I need to delete them because my phone is

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Just so wrong

19 February 200819 February 2008

01.23 and I’m downstairs and wider awake than a wide awake thing has any right to be. Don’t ask why, just one of those things.

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Swindon (swine-don?)

18 February 2008

I had to go to the post office in the centre of Swindon today. Recorded delivery shit, the kind of stuff that one has to

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Cruisin’

18 February 200818 February 2008

The new car eats up the miles on what seems to be almost fresh air. The reported 50mpg is, I think, being exceeded at a

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OU musings

17 February 200818 February 2008

The penny’s dropped. Here’s what’s wrong with the Open University’s business practices in the 21st Century. Recycling. Yes, recycling is not a good thing. How

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Boring techie nerdy stuff

16 February 2008

My laptop (bless) is locked down. Yes I put all kinds of software on it but only for a purpose, never for fun. I use

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Ah reckon there’s change a-comin’, Cleetus!

15 February 200815 February 2008

Saturday 1st March 2008. A date that will live on in infamy (cue Kenneth Williams in a toga hamming it up with the immortal “Infamy,

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Child abuse?

15 February 200815 February 2008

The documentary ‘Baby Bible Bashers’ on C4 is deeply disturbing. It shows scenes that at best could be called child abuse, and at worst could

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VD (2)

14 February 200815 February 2008

See? I said there’d be more! They think we haven’t noticed. They’re up there every coffee-break. In Costa, on the second floor, sitting just a

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VD (1)

14 February 200814 February 2008

That’s (1) because there will be others, natch. That’s natch not snatch, that’s something completely different. I arrive home, knackered. It’s been a day of

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An apology

13 February 2008

To my friends and colleagues at the yard… I’m sorry. I seem to have used the last of the toilet paper. And I’d give it

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Working like a dawg

13 February 2008

(a work-based form of haiku-style form I invented in my sleep. I know it’s successful. In my dream I delivered it to a pubfull of

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Sharp intake of breath

11 February 200811 February 2008

We are considering buying a car. Another car. A second car. Yes I know. Very sinful of us. But you see, in the 21st Century

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Oxymoron

10 February 200810 February 2008

I heard this phrase on the radio the other day – and it was delivered without any degree of cynicism: “Bryan Adams classic…” Have you

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Taking stock

9 February 20083 May 2012

It occurs to me that our behaviour – sometimes perhaps more childish than the average person our age – might set us apart from other

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Writing for posterity

9 February 20083 May 2012

Get this. Amongst the exhibits in the Dublin Writer’s Museum are not one but two hairslides which are stated as having been owned (but not

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Stretching before me is?

8 February 200825 February 2015

Ah, the weekend. Or, as the French might say, Le Weekend.  🙂 I sit here contemplating all of the things I could be doing with

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Travel broadens ones…

7 February 2008

… arse. It’s all that sitting about that does it. Travel also stretches ones credibility. And tests ones patience. And pushes ones mental endurance to

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Ships of the desert, sights of the night

5 February 20083 May 2012

Get this. Amongst the exhibits in the Dublin Writer’s Museum are not one but two hairslides which are stated as having been owned (but not

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If it’s Saturday it must be…

2 February 2008

Dublin. Back soon. B.

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Namecheck…

1 February 20083 May 2012

Driving to work this morning, listening to Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code (edition 715), I was pleasantly surprised to be name-checked by Adam – the

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