Bridawg Blog

No, I’m not talking about me (although I do wear rather nifty rimless specs and did celebrate a birthday a few days ago.) I’m talking about my beloved old Sinclair Spectrum.  According to the good old Beeb, the Sinclair Spectrum is 25 years old this month (younger than me - makes me feel old)  Turns [...]

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I have a lot of fun in my office, but the other day I was getting kind of peeved. I would keep typing on my new Vista PC and weird stuff would happen. I couldn’t work it out but was swearing at Vista. The application would swap accidentally and strange spellings [...]

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I was on the bus to work yesterday when we stopped at the east end of Princes Street. We’d been passing and being passed my a huge vehicle on a lowloader since Murrayfield but it had pulled past as the bus made a couple of stops.
When we got to Princes Street we had [...]

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I vividly remember sending my first Valentine. Her name was Pamela
and I was in love. I was about seven.
I walked to school and back every day - not very far. Crossed the
road, down the traffic free lane and then over another road to school.
Five or ten minutes depending on how keen I [...]

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Did you know that if you rip a CD to MP3 files and then copy those onto your Ipod or other MP3 player, then you are breaking the law?
There’s a Petition to the Pirme Minister to look at more sensible copyright laws.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to create a new exception to [...]

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But I remember dancing to this when I was at school discos, circa 1985.

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Back when I was about 9 years old I took part in a musical at school and I can’t for the life of me remember the name. I think I was some kind of elf - it was my first and last experience with makeup and I hated all the work taking it off. [...]

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I was in the local shopping centre at lunchtime and they have a big stand up selling calendars. For the past couple of years I’ve had an Old New York calendar, with old black and white photos of the City. I saw the Edward Hopper calendar too, and now I’m torn as [...]

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I grew up around some pretty imaginative people. For several years my parents helped run a beach mission in St Andrews, and I was one of the kids who got to run around and play with all of the enthusiastic young people running it. I do vividly remember my first Serompie though. [...]

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I don’t think that issues like this get enough coverage and I, for one, am glad to see this in depth article from Wired magazine on What’s inside Squirt-on Cheese.
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