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Coma

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:08:21 +0100

coma

gentle, rhythmic beeping –
lights on, lights off. Machines purr in the dark
and a heart beats for us now
tooled and efficient, as cool
as our fevered love never hoped for.
Aren’t you glad we upgraded?

oops

Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:21:28 +0100

i made a boo boo so you've all had to live with out fcm today, sorry folks.

I've also had to disable public comments as there's a security vulnerability in the content management software fcm runs on.

I'll try to update fcm later in the week to fix this

Daniel Orlick tracks available for download

Sat, 14 May 2005 16:44:35 +0100

Daniel Orlick has kindly let us host some of his tracks from his current CD, Calling Out To Boredom Nation, available from Ghost Town Records.

Meanwhile, in Ireland

Wed, 09 Mar 2005 19:25:33 +0000

There appear still to be real barbarians in the shape of the IRA and their less than amusing Sooty imitation, Sinn Fein. Quite apart from the original terrible murder the subsequent intimidation of witnesses, the absurd Martin McGuiness urging witnesses not to co-operate with the police but to go to the police ombudsman, the craven sophistry of Gerry Adams (gasp) quite how they could ever imagine that offering to shoot McCartney's murderers would ameliorate the situation is completely beyond me.

Oscars, everyone!

Thu, 03 Mar 2005 19:47:00 +0000

They liked Million Dollar baby.

Theirs is not an opinion that I am going to dignify with any comment.

Rant! The Prevention of Terrorism Act

Thu, 03 Mar 2005 19:32:27 +0000

Since nobody else appears to be going to say anything at all on the subject of the Prevention of Terrorism Act that is currently making its uncomfortable passage through parliament, I will have to have a bash at explaining why it’s wrong wrong wrong and why it’s absolutely imperative that, come the election, everyone uses their vote and gets rid of this lunatic government.

Oscar, anyone?

Sat, 26 Feb 2005 17:22:13 +0000

Here are this years Oscar nominations, apparently picked at random out of a very small hat by people who were late for an appointment.

Here are my inconsequential, impartial, ill-informed opinions:

Commercial

Sun, 06 Feb 2005 14:41:27 +0000

Those of you with more cash than you know what to do with and no grammar skills will be pleased to know that thelanguagehawk.com is up and running at last.

Go there, go there now.

Whaddyamean, Europe?

Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:14:04 +0000

THIS IS VERY MUCH A WORK IN PROGRESS. THE WAY I SEE IT, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE A UNIFIED EUROPE EVENTUALLY. I'M GOING TO WRITE ABOUT SOME OF MY (ADMITTEDLY INCONSEQUENCIAL) IDEAS ON HERE AND I'D LOVE TO KNOW WHAT PEOPLE THINK OF THEM. HERE'S THE FIRST BIT OF THE FIRST BIT (BEAR WITH ME - IT'LL BE A WHILE BEFORE I'VE ORGANISED MY THOUGHTS ENOUGH TO WRITE MORE).

Exhaustion of the Punctuation Mines

Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:52:26 +0000

It seems that the current collapses of grammar and punctuation are not entirely down to the simultaneous collapse of what might plausibly be regarded as an education system. It seems that our literary forefathers have, to put it bluntly, used all the grammar and punctuation up. What we are using now is the poor quality stuff that they thought uneconomical to use.

Europe Fails Again

Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:16:34 +0000

The European Union as it currently stands is an irritating parody of what it could be, but it is not completely useless.

Or it wouldn't be if anybody there had any courage to do what is obviously the right thing.

features, features and yet more features

Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:10:33 +0000

and no doubt more bugs.

the additional features are threefold

files can now be uploaded into FCM. via create content/upload file. you can have them listed in the download section by selecting music, video or both in the imaginatively titled download box. there is a 10 Mb size limit.

More downloads added

Sat, 04 Dec 2004 22:16:57 +0000

I've finally got round to adding more of the music downloads that were availble from this sites previous incarnation.

Engine Room 25/11/04 Photos

Sun, 28 Nov 2004 03:53:50 +0000

Photos from the last engine room

Government Health Warning

Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:55:31 +0000

Researched published this week suggests that the nation could be on the verge of a potentially catastrophic outbreak of Hypochondria. The disease, which can devastate lives as it floods through people's nervous system like a white elephant in a china-shop, has been described as having symptoms ranging from "a bit of a sort of a nebulous ache" to sudden unexplained death.