Author Archives: Giolla

Tales from a wedding

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So the wedding is over and rather pleasantly quietly it would seem – but then I’ve not been near a paper or a pub with a TV, so what would I know. Reading comments on other peoples blogs it seems to have been quite a mixed bag of a wedding, from what it tells us about the state of the nation. Given we are still a monarchy (even if there is debate as to how much power/relevance the monarchy has) how people, both the people and the powers that be, react to it is rather interesting. Lets start with the … Continue reading →

Automatic fear updates

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Quite a while back I bemoaned the fact that MI5 weren’t kind enough to provide an RSS feed of the current UK threat level so I wrote a little script so I could know in real time if I should be more or less afraid, and so make sure that my fear and paranoia were at government approved levels at all times. Well it seems that they’ve finally* got round to providing an official RSS feed which is very nice of them and far more reliable than my efforts. You can find it here: https://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/threat-level-rss.html Note it’s available over both … Continue reading →

New blog in town

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Whilst I’m sure everyone reading this is already aware of the fact, I thought I’d just briefly plug the Orphans of Liberty a new group blog being written by a miscellany of people whose own writings have sat in my blog roll for ages already. So if you’ve not already done so , do go over there and have a read you’ll not be wasting your time. Whilst I’m plugging good reads I should also point you at Leg-Irons new book “Jessica’s trap“. It really is a very good read, and well worth buying as soon as it’s actually released, … Continue reading →