Archive for November 6th, 2005

Posted on November 6, 2005 - by jono

NO to fireworks!!

Did the gig tonight at the Little Civic and it went well. We got up on stage, treated the audience to 30 minutes of pounding metal and got off. You know when you have put your heart into a gig when you get off the stage and feel rather dazed and dizzy. The response was good, signed some tickets, met some new friends and had a great time.

You know, call me a curmudgeon, but I fricken’ hate fireworks. In this country we celebrate bonfire night every year, and the whole process of worshipping these pointless and inane fireworks irks me. Ohh…look…a big flash of light in the sky…wow, isn’t it beautiful. Erm, no. Maybe I am getting a little miserable in my old age, but I wish someone would figure they were a risk to national security and ban them. Maybe someone should plant a load of sparklers in Camp X-Ray and we can architect these infernal buggers to be banned. The problem is fireworks do nothing but amuse chavs and frighten the elderly, animals and men of a tall and bearded variety with a penchant for ducks. To be honest, my position on fireworks was not exactly improved when I was hit in the leg by one a few years back…

It seems that All hail the speed demons is causing some heated discussion on various sites, particularly on LWN. It is interesting to see so many viewpoints on the subject, and I have had some nice mails from some readers letting me know their thoughts. I was quite pleased to get a mail from Torsten Rahn who asked why I think his name is cool. He responded by saying my name was cool, to which I responded “Ahhh you see, it may seem cool from the outset, but having a surname that refers to a piece of pig that is eaten in a sandwich is not one that the girls immediately jumped at when I was at school many moons ago”. You know, I seem to amuse myself with some odd conversations sometimes.

New site hacking continues, and the anti-spam stuff is getting there. Just need to finish it and add some sheen to the site while also buffing the style-sheet up somewhat. I wish I had a big and popular website where I could get my readers to do it for me.