Monthly Archives: September 2002

journalist sacked update

Posted on September 19, 2002 by andrewb

Perhaps it couldn’t have happened to a better man. or a nicer paper: cop this for a piece of grotesque moralising: Continue reading →

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The front page of today’s Telegraph is disturbing for many reasons. There is a huge colour photograph of an apocalyptic figure blowing his horn in front of a bonfire: it shows “Andrew Brown, joint master of the Saltergate Hunt.” Well, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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teach them English

Posted on September 17, 2002 by andrewb

How do you say to a customer, “Sorry, it’s a bug. We don’t know when we’ll get around to fixing it?” Not like EMusic, to whom I had complained that their MP3s don’t have a full v1 tag, and always … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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journalist sacked

Posted on September 16, 2002 by andrewb

for fucking? I’ll never complain that there’s no new news again. Continue reading →

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seduction

Posted on September 16, 2002 by andrewb

Listening on headphones last night to Sympathy for the Devil in a state of elevated insomnia, brought on by the consumption of trout and grappa, and a subsequent low-class drunken argument about Nobel prizes with Dr Wilkie. Perhaps it was … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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the most beautiful trout

Posted on September 15, 2002 by andrewb

in all England must have been the one I caught yesterday at Grapham. Most rainbow trout in this country are like battery chickens with scales. This one was like a sea-trout, perfect, glittering silver with each scale distinct. I should … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Commands

Posted on September 15, 2002 by andrewb

missing from the database manuals: drop table [on foot] dance on table. beat head on table sob into puddle of beer on table Continue reading →

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a new phrase

Posted on September 14, 2002 by andrewb

Who writes the Smallweed column in the Guardian? It reads like Ian Aitken sometimes, sometimes like Paul Routledge. But this week contained one of the most perfect pieces of abuse that I have ever read. Continue reading →

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Shantytown computing

Posted on September 14, 2002 by andrewb

I went round to see my copy editor today. I had to deliver a copy of the worm book, and she had asked if I could give her a lesson in *nix. Of course, I gave her, free. the most … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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recursive

Posted on September 9, 2002 by andrewb

I think I understand trackback now. Thanks, Kieran. It’s a thought-provoking blog. Continue reading →

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