Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Dec 2, 2009, 3:08 am
Broadband Genie Joe’s made a couple of comments on some of my older posts and he asked me to have a look at his website. I admit, the first time he left a comments I thought “spam”&...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Dec 1, 2009, 10:47 am
Well, after waiting almost three months and giving up on phoning them, I emailed again yesterday and – amazingly – received a response this morning. I guess they’ve actually hired so...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Nov 30, 2009, 6:23 am
SAAS are still defying belief as one of the most inept government departments I have ever dealt with. And that’s facing some stiff competition. Following on from the last letter I received and ...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Nov 25, 2009, 11:39 am
I nicked this one from Helen. Feel free to comment, rip it, post a link to your own version, tell me to stop messing about and do my homework… whatever. FOODOLOGY What is your salad dressing o...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Nov 24, 2009, 12:27 pm
Secretary for Business and out-of-touch sleazebag People my age will remember the old days when someone would tell you off for something, and the response would be to tut and say “it’s a ...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Nov 22, 2009, 10:38 am
I managed not to break this car. I apologise forthwith for that awful headline. Anyway, later than it should be up, a little something about last weekend. Courtesy of a birthday present I’d no...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Nov 18, 2009, 4:23 pm
Taking Woodstock I managed to get an afternoon off work due to the school going on fire and everyone being given the rest of the day off. Taking this as a sign from some random deity that I was being...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Nov 18, 2009, 6:31 am
Blue Dragon Children's Foundation Nothing I’m directly connected with, at least as far as being actively involved, but here are two good ways to waste your cash instead of… I dunno...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Nov 17, 2009, 1:02 pm
How SAAS make the money to pay your course fees For those who’ve tried to call SAAS recently, I’m guessing you likely had a nightmare getting through to them on the phone. I tried last we...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Nov 13, 2009, 11:00 am
It's already got a name Copy of an email sent to the following addresses: info@ampersand.uk.com Deborah.Grocock@sportsdirect.com info@sports-world.com Along with tens of thousands of others, ...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Nov 12, 2009, 7:09 pm
For those waiting for me to get back to them about stuff (this includes TravelFish for that review of the Kho Phi Phi guide and Joe for my brief look at broadbandgenie), please bear with me. I am abso...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Nov 11, 2009, 5:00 am
Thank you Post from: Mosher'sUnimaginativelyEntitledBlog - why not pop by and read some more shit?
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Nov 10, 2009, 3:42 pm
Don’t you love how we tell kids to do things (or not do them) and then undermine the whole concept with our own actions and decision? Over the last week I’ve gone over the concept of Inte...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Nov 10, 2009, 12:41 pm
I just found this by random and it’s well worth a look if you like whacky artwork and clever computery stuff. Essentially it’s a big Flash animation, but it’s very hypnotic. A series...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Nov 8, 2009, 3:12 pm
Yes. It comes with night vision goggles. Seriously. I still follow the gaming press though I play about 2 hours of computer games a month right now – and that only when I visit my folks and loa...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Nov 7, 2009, 4:43 pm
Just for a change, a Saturday visit to the picture house and what a change it made crowd-wise. While I much prefer an empty theater (as people are generally selfish, noisy buggers in this country) it ...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Nov 4, 2009, 5:35 pm
Not my local one, but I have been here! A few weeks ago I emailed Cineworld to ask why they didn’t encourage people to re-use their 3D glasses. With the number of 3D films coming out now, it se...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Nov 4, 2009, 5:17 pm
No real updates right now as I’m utterly buried in work. Back at school and, though I’m still enjoying it, it’s really hitting home how much effort this course is. By mid-December I...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 31, 2009, 9:47 am
His friends called him "Billy-boy". Maybe. The what now? That sounds like a Shakspeare play or something. Which it is. And this is the film review category which means I must have watched it. Which I...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 29, 2009, 5:14 pm
9 My last “Film Thursday” for 6 weeks as I’m on placement from Monday. Argh. It wasn’t as busy as I was hoping, with only three films making the “can be arsed going to s...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 28, 2009, 4:36 pm
In Bruges Just to warm you up for Film Thursday tomorrow (or whenever I post the related blog article), here’s a quickie about In Bruges. This is a dark comedy. Think inky black. With quite a b...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 28, 2009, 2:44 pm
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 27, 2009, 2:58 pm
Just a couple of things that are a little too long to be posted in the 140 characters that Twitter allows. The silly bird-based website has become my outlet for a lot recently. Eldster You can tell ...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 24, 2009, 5:42 am
Look, Green - no adverts! This is a very simple hack to get rid of the annoying adverts in Windows Live Messenger (and possibly older versions of MSN Messenger). It doesn’t involve any download...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 22, 2009, 1:19 pm
This week I did my first “stand up and teach” experience in front of staff and peers at the uni. Just a small group of Computing PGDE(S) students and three staff, but it’s enough to ...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 22, 2009, 4:15 am
There will be no film reviews today as there are precisely no films on at Cineworld Glasgow that I want to see. I’m not big on horror any more, so Halloween 2 isn’t an option. I’ve n...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 21, 2009, 2:39 pm
SLAYER!!!! I was tagged by The Random Within for this one. Git. By reading this you are also tagged, and you must answer all the questions below using song names from one artist/group. You are not a...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 20, 2009, 4:38 pm
SAAS - see this? It's like mine - BRITISH. For those who don’t know SAAS is the government body responsible for withholding as much cash as possible instead of dishing it out to students in...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 20, 2009, 3:50 pm
Ong Bak 2 Tony Jaa is back, and this time you can watch him on the big screen in the UK! Ong Bak: The Beginning is the prequel to the original Ong Bak but aside from the fact that it centres around m...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 19, 2009, 11:25 am
Image via Wikipedia I was down south this past week (to Londoners, this doesn’t mean I went that far – right now to me anything “south” is latitudinally below Glasgow) and amo...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 17, 2009, 3:56 pm
I’ve not done much about books recently, and partly that’s down to the fact I’ve not had a lot of spare time to get through the huge pile of novels I want to read. Between (ab)using ...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 17, 2009, 4:28 am
Well, my parents for two. Anyway, there are numerous reasons to say that this is rubbish -- other than the fact that I like it an I iz ded smart, like. I could point you in the direction of Iron Maid...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 16, 2009, 4:00 pm
Spreading the films around this week… today’s serving consisted of horror/thriller Triangle and comedy Couples Retreat. Triangle First off, it’s hard to review this one without giv...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 16, 2009, 4:42 am
Front of shirt Raffle entries closed yesterday and a huge “thank you” to the entrants, of which there weren’t many but each was very generous indeed. Please, if you missed the compe...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 15, 2009, 5:08 pm
I finally caught Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs today, three weeks after it came out and just – I think – before it vanished from the screens. I paid extra for the 3D performance as it ...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 13, 2009, 4:00 pm
Just a quick mid-week film review as I caught Disney Pixar’s Up tonight with Tracey in Bradford. Plot-in-a-nutshell: grumpy old man decides to get away from it all by inflating a bazillion ball...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 8, 2009, 4:06 pm
Pandorum Due to unforeseen technical hiccups (i.e. Cineworld’s web site lying to me) there are only three films reviewed today. I was also hoping to see Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs but th...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 7, 2009, 1:59 pm
I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned this bunch of nutters before but they have a new video out. Steel Panther apparently started off as a parody act purely ripping the piss out of glam band...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 6, 2009, 1:28 pm
Making up for it... Following on from the earlier post, I’m glad to say I received an email response from Olympus. First up, a mail telling me that I did have to ring the support number despite...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 6, 2009, 10:00 am
Feed us both! Most people are one or the other or both. Well, I’m going to beg to you a little on behalf of them all! Back at Christmas 2007 I set up a standing order to the Newcastle Dog & Cat...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 4, 2009, 3:38 am
D'OH! A friend of mine works in a call centre and today had a little tiff with a customer. A customer who obviously likes to throw big words around, but who doesn’t understand what they mea...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 3, 2009, 3:01 am
Would kick Eminem's ass any day Well, after being out of the country for a couple of years and (happily) ignoring television, radio and the tabloids I find myself drowning in a sea of recently fa...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 2, 2009, 4:34 pm
All good things and all that. Today was the last day of my initial Induction Period and it was a shame to be leaving, in all honesty. Once more it was quite busy and once more I picked up a few more h...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Oct 2, 2009, 3:46 pm
Not so good this time After the superb customer service job they did for me a few months ago, Olympus have decided to make up by being a bit crap. Following are the details of the problem and the ema...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Sep 30, 2009, 1:05 pm
The tie in question Another couple of days under my belt and I’m still not ready to kill anyone else, let alone myself. I am becoming more and more aware of the workload and issues to be dealt ...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Sep 30, 2009, 2:03 am
I’ve not had a poll on the blog for years! After hearing about Ourman’s random barging in by his landlord this morning, I just have to ask (ideally, you need JavaScript enabled): Free Blo...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Sep 29, 2009, 4:00 pm
R.I.P. little fella Before I left the UK to go travelling in 2006 I had two lovely cats. Both were adopted from other places – KK from random chav neighbours who moved house and abandoned her, ...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Sep 28, 2009, 5:13 pm
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Sep 28, 2009, 12:51 pm
Windows 7 Time for a geeky post – it’s been a while. I was tinkering with the beta version of Windows 7 for a while before it expired and was… well, I’d not say “impress...
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Iain P. posted an article on Mosher's Unimaginatively Entitled Blog - Sep 26, 2009, 1:19 pm
The Soloist Friday this week as it suited the workload a little better. The downside is that Friday was a holiday in Glasgow so the cinema was rammed more than it usually would be. Added to the fact ...
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