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Back to Scotland for a few days.

Back posting next week.

A few problems with the Wordpress theme I was using before so I’ve changed to a less adventurous one.

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What the hell have I done ?

I’m going to write a blog. What a dickhead !

I’ve been sitting on my arse for too long, searching for work - mostly failing, then expanding my ‘work skills’ into areas that have little chance of sustaining me.

Well, the least I can do is propagate my frustrations (in many different arenas) and hope I can drag you all down with me.

If you can’t beat them, get them to join you.

Having thought about blogging and uploading the necessary software, I’ve previously lifted my arse off my Argos purchased ‘work’ seat only long enough to sit down on my hands so my blogging ability was acutely compromised.

Maybe, subconsciously, I intended to put as little effort into this attempt as I had done before.

But that bloody Tim at www.bloggerheads.com is a persuasive bugger either directly or, by his enthusiasm for this medium, indirectly - and then he’s just mentioned on his website that I’m going to start blogging.

So, I’m obligated to take this seriously and I shall.

It won’t try to emulate what Tim and other political blogs are doing - a recipe for an inferiority complex.

I like to think I can make a few salient points, mix it up with a few of my juvenile and superficial gags (sometimes pointed) and music recommendations. Hopefully, my musical preferences won’t put you off the rest of the blog.

I appreciate the tone of the site might, in some minds, devalue my political beliefs but it is a chance I am prepared to take (laziness or belief in the format ?). Maybe I shall be typing into thin ether but at least I’ll be typing - without the instruction of Mavis Beacon.

Short term goal - to get another image to go wildly viral. (to satisfy my ego-driven, pat-on-the back mentality)
Long term - to put something together in flash or broadcast quality video (if there’s anyone out there to help) to show how close the written word is to it’s consequences. For example, how a sentence can be changed (in the comfort of one’s own office) to reinforce public/political opinion and how it’s desired interpretation leads to the death and mutilation of innocents in a country so far away that distance provides a convenient buffer from reality and, while the pool of blood doesn’t travel far from the bodies, the trail of blood leads directly back to the wordsmith.