Category Archives: Old Git Wisdom

Steve’s contribution to the UK Election

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Steve McDonagh

I cannot let the build up to the UK elections pass without having a useful pie chart on the old Blog. Here you go and please note it is WAY more useful than the guff you get from the main … Continue reading →

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Righteous curmudgeonosity and car park eittiquette

Posted on April 3, 2010 by Steve McDonagh

Okay tis one’s birthday today and it is one of what many people call “special” as it has a zero at the end. Now to me being completly divisible by 10 is not really an occasion for applause and rapture. … Continue reading →

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One of the best Mashups I have seen

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Steve McDonagh

Take a stonkingly good song from 40 years and mash it with an equally stonking song from 30 years ago…. and you get Rapture Riders The Doors Vs Debbie Harry PS that smile that the lizard king gives at 00:11. … Continue reading →

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High Energy Gender Physics 101

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Steve McDonagh

OK I have had several IMs about the veracity of my Phd. A couple of people doubt the fact that there is such a subject as High Energy Gender Physics for me to be a Doctor of let alone that … Continue reading →

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The mysterious FrockHandbagShoegasm

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Steve McDonagh

This morning Val asked me, “That wedding we are going to it is in June isn’t it? “No”, I replied, “First of May” for such is the date of the approaching nuptials. “Gasp” said Val, “Duck Light Rowlocks that’s only … Continue reading →

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Happenstance and Kismet

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Steve McDonagh

One of those things that just happens, get locked out of the house, hear a song you havent heard of in a long time which makes you think of another song. A song that meant something back in the distance … Continue reading →

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Mistaking “Respect” for “Tolerate”

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Steve McDonagh

I was listening to Sunday Sequence last week and there was a very interesting sequence on a recent speech given by the  ArchBishop of Canterbury entitled “When evangelism becomes bullying” There was a representative of the frothing ultra convservative unionist … Continue reading →

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3 Cheers for Mums on Mothering Sunday

Posted on March 14, 2010 by Steve McDonagh

I know I am not one for religious holidays but this one I don’t really mind. Back into the mists of time there has been a day on which motherhood was celebrated and this tradition has been absorbed in the … Continue reading →

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Parenting Skills

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Steve McDonagh

Some chums and I where having a bit of a deep philosophical type chin wag the other day. We are all of an age where we have been there, done that,  got the tee shirt vis a vis parenthood. After … Continue reading →

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