As I’ve explained before, I have my reasons for posting stuff on here. Mostly, I treat it as a brief break from work (I’m sure there’s some kind of inverse correlation between the quality of my posts and how hard I’m working/how busy I am), an opportunity to try (and mostly fail, I suppose) to be funny, and an excuse to write something more interesting than technical documentation. Yes, believe it or not, that is…

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Two things on BBC news caught my eye as I munched on my sarnies today: 1) Liverpool was named European Capital of Culture for 2008 today. Someone from the council told the BBC website that: “This is like Liverpool winning the Champions League, Everton winning the double and the Beatles reforming all on the same day – and Steve Spielberg coming to the city to make a Hollywood blockbuster about it.” Hmm, I think I’d…

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