January 2012

Last Friday night, after five years away from the stage, BAiT made its return to public performance, and it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. We had been offered a slot at Ditch The TV – a monthly, predominantly acoustic evening, run by local musician, Malc Evans, for whom I’ve played…

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I hate photo albums! There. I’ve said it. Photo albums ruin photos and prevent one from being able to scan the photos. If you have any photo prints, for the benefit of your descendents, please don’t put them in damned photo albums of any kind! If they’re in them at…

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So, let me get this right, Jimmy Wales… I should start out by stating that I have read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more and I am aware that you have left access to Wikipedia open on mobile devices or by disabling javascript (fine for those of us who know how to do that –…

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Just been explaining cultural (and temporal) relativism to our eldest daughter. She’s (rightly) been learning about naughty imperial practices in Britain’s past. I just wanted her to know that history can always be viewed from several perspectives. Judging past behaviour by today’s values is dangerous and fails to consider the…

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