Posted in Random by: Alan G
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10 Nov
Well, it’s been a while since I posted about winning a competition. In the summer I won a Blood Bag Shower Gel from a True Blood competition on Facebook. Today I just had delivery of a leather Olympus camera bag from a competition from some time ago I had forgotten about. I normally use the [...]
Posted in Philosophy, Random by: Alan G
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02 Aug
I was initially quite excited by the launch of Google +, mainly due to it separating circles of friends in an easy to manage way. I have been quite wary of posting things online due to overlapping circles of friends. A number of cases have emerged where people have been fired for gross misconduct for [...]
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15 Jul
I realised today that it’s been about 3 months since I last posted here. I’ve been pretty busy, with exhibiting at the Highland Show with Genna, doing lots of work on her website and so on. I’ve also been reading again a hell of a lot more than before. Since the start of June, I [...]
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Random by: Alan G
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10 Mar
Note: this post was sitting in my drafts from February 2009. No idea why I didn’t publish at the time. The RIAA (Recording Industry of America) has had a potted history of cases against individual alleged file sharers. They have sued children, people who don’t own computers and dead people. Their only courtroom victory was [...]
Posted in Food & Drink, Random, Vodka by: Alan G
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24 Jan
I had heard of Valt Vodka a few weeks back but didn’t want to throw down £25-£30 on a rash buy. Well Genna dragged me round the Scottish Trade Fair on Sunday as a recce mission for future exhibiting and I spotted their stand. Disciplined we wandered round the rest of the food section before [...]
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21 Jun
2 minor annoyances with Travel Dundee lately. Firstly they have binned the flexi-cards and replaced them with paper tickets to be stamped by the drivers. Notices say this is to speed up the journey etc. Except the driver taking ticket, inpecting it, then leaning forward lining up stamper, stamping, checking stamp is in correct place [...]
Posted in Random, Rant by: Alan G
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15 May
Due to a combination of factors regarding scammy scummy business practices I remembered about this incident. A few weeks ago I get a knock at the door and it is someone from an energy company touting for business by trying to convince us to switch suppliers. I forget the exact figures but he asked me [...]
Posted in Funny, Random, Rant by: Alan G
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23 Apr
I was recently contacted by someone else who had received legal threats from First Search Consultancy. They have since edited and re-published their post about First Search Consultancy. I recommend reading it. Ryan also says he has a recording proving the claim made by a number of people online and my partner that they say [...]
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29 Jan
Well, I can only assume as much given the 13 cops and command unit sitting in a layby on the Kingsway… Bookmark It Hide Sites
Posted in Politics, Random, Rant by: Alan G
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07 Jan
Sitting in the pub last night one of the 24 hour News programs was on giving us breaking news such as roads frozen and temperature below freezing. How this was breaking news baffled me. Then after the news finished there was the weather. The newspaper headline section was hilarious with their shocking headlines and attacks [...]