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Amy Winehouse

Amy Winheouse found to be 5.2x over the drink drive level. A definition of dead drunk?

Rolex 5513

After a period of wearing a couple of my other watches, I’m back wearing my trusty Rolex. It has responded to my rekindled appreciation by returning to the COSC accuracy it displayed when new, namely +2 seconds a day. It clearly relishes being out of the safe.

Here’s a shot of one of its older [...]

Religion, a pernicious virus

On the Dawkin’s scale I’m a 7. I’ve been rated a 7 before!

Arch-hypocrisy

So the Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow, Mario Conti, has written to every parish in Scotland, urging all Catholics to oppose the planned legislation for allowing same-sex marriages. He said the Scottish government did not have a mandate to “reconstruct society on ideological grounds”.

Who voted for you Archbishop? Where did you acquire your mandate? Are [...]

A musical nation

So sorry for the Welsh, to loose to the French at the rugby. Their massive consolation is that they clearly have the best national anthem of all the nations in the UK.

Compare and contrast the magnificent “Land of My Fathers” with the plodding “God Save The Queen” for the English or even “Swing low [...]

Schoolboy French

It’s a rare post here at Wicked Fire, when I comment directly or indirectly about work – this is because I’m a firm believer in not conflating the two, unlike the recently departed Liam Fox – what was he thinking?

Anyway, since the powers that be made several important announcement earlier this week, the week [...]

The pathetic fallacy

My mood today is matching the forecast for the next few days.

Except tomorrow and Friday are too fucking cheerful by half.

Unix history

I was wandering around work last week, and found myself in a conversation with someone with secret geek tendencies. As one of my rules is not to talk about work, I cannot reveal that person’s name here, but I will say that I was most pleasantly surprised to learn of his secret fascination with computers [...]