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Travelling – The Agony and Ecstasy
My dream Is to fly Over de rainbow So high No, actually that’s Yves La Rock’s dream (and my bloody nightmare as, in Egypt, they still think that this trick is new and interesting when everyone else stopped playing it … Continue reading
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On Becoming Telephobic
That’s as in ‘fear of talking of the phone’, as taken from the famous BT Commercial: Unless the date was written on it, I’d never have guessed that this was from 1991 – I woud have thought it the best … Continue reading
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Stop the Social Networking Madness Now
OK, enough is enough. If anyone else invites me to join another social networking site, I’m just going to tell them to go fuck themselves. It’s just getting completely out of control (not to mention completely bloody pointless). Despite being a … Continue reading
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Born Too Soon
In a previous posting, I was saying that I am not a great believer in nostalgia, but rather I am the opposite – ‘prestalgic‘ – having a great longing for the future. I often mope around, begrudging all these lucky … Continue reading
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Confessions of a Secret Screenshot Voyeur
I have a secret fetish. Well actually I have several, but I sure as Hell aren’t going to tell you lot about most of them! But I will admit to having an unhealthy fascination with the contents of other people’s computers. When … Continue reading
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I am NOT a Luddite (Honest)
Reading through my past few posts I can see that I come over as being one of those boring old people who like to say “things were so much better in the old days”. Which old days were these exactly? The … Continue reading
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Return of the PC: Conversion from Islam
After a highly nervewracking 18 hours or so not knowing if my beloved PC was going to survive, I finally got it back (after four different trips to the shop because this is Egypt and nothing ever goes smoothly – … Continue reading
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Islamic IT Irony
Well, literally 15 minutes after making that last post (and I do mean literally – there’s nothing that irritates me more than people who use the word literally when they don’t mean literally as in “that curry was literally hotter … Continue reading
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A Bad Workman Blaming His Tools
You may have noticed that in my first posting, the formatting was all screwed up at the bottom. This is not my fault. It is my computer’s. Actually that’s not true. It’s Egypt’s fault. My computer is Latvian by birth. … Continue reading
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