Posted in Vodka by: Alan G
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27 Feb
Last night at Duke’s Corner I sampled the DQ vodka and it was immense. Will definitely look forward to buying a bottle at some point.
This morning I was digging through old posts, spotting errors etc when I noticed one about Blackwoods going into administration.
It appears they have licenced their vodka to Blavod
I repeat, Blackwoods vodka [...]
Posted in Coding by: Alan G
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26 Feb
Developer Day Scotland Agenda has been announced and looks really good.
I went last year and thought it was excellent so was looking forward to this year. Only one clash and one empty slot for my preferred items I voted for so a good result for me.
Right now my plans would be for:
HTML 5: The Language [...]
Posted in Coding, Politics, Rant by: Alan G
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14 Feb
Friday was a special occassion. The 200th episode of the excellent Boagworld podcast.
To celebrate, rather than record the usual show of about 1hour the hosts organised a 12 hour spectacular pulling together some of the brightest and most interesting people in the web industry. There were experts on coding and design, CSS and CMS, useability [...]
Posted in Coding by: Alan G
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13 Feb
Having sat and looked at Gennas site and tried to come up with the best ways to improve it I have realised that it’s a while since I have done any HTML/CSS development. At work I have been doing a bit of Asp.Net but the majority of my time is back-end coding in C# with [...]
Posted in Games, Rant by: Alan G
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08 Feb
For the second time in a week I can’t log in to Games For Windows Live.
I can log into the Live mail account associated with it and am online doing other things.
What am I trying to do? Play Dawn of War 2 Campaign.
That, is a single player game which requires two online services to run [...]
Posted in Fitness, Politics by: Alan G
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03 Feb
In parliament today a bill on euthanasia for those with terminal illnesses was punted to a sub-committee. This is probably what you would expect in a parliament.
What was strange was it had been expected to be handed to the Health committee. According to party hacks euthanasia doesn’t fall under the remit of health.
The more you [...]
Posted in Links by: Alan G
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02 Feb
Lindsay Mathers has launched a blog (and soon to come site) with some of her horsey paintings.
Looking forward to seeing more images up soon.
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Posted in Equality, Rant by: Alan G
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02 Feb
It seems the supreme magic user in Europe has opened his mouth and channelled the spirit of a bigot from an earlier time. Given the organisation he is in it could be anywhere from the 1st century to last week.
Daily mash as usual are pretty on the ball with the satire.
He apparently will be touring [...]