I feel compelled to scribble a few notes in the back wash from the recent brouhaha over at Mr Bynkii's site (I wont link to it, I am sure you have all seen it)
Others can and will comment on the whether the sentiments expressed have value or not and I am not joining that particular debate, however having read Mr Bynkii's missive I am left with a feeling of dissatisfaction at the style and particulary poor use of expletive gymnastics he and his fellow travellers used in this post .... where has creative profanity gone?
Now as my more astute readers will be aware I do like a string of well formed, creative profanity. You may argue that profanity of any sort is not big and is not clever and yes that argument does hold some water in polite society. However an expletive in the hands of an artist can be used to create word pictures that clean and sturdy metaphor or muscular but inoffensive similie can never hope to achieve.
Profanity, like salt improving a under seasoned soup, improves the flow of the text. The Bard himself, old Billy Shakespear was not above slipping in the odd expletive into his plays, although he did it with style and finesse. His audience's picked up on these at once and no doubt tittered and guaffawed in equal measure. For example Malvolio sliped this line into one of his speeches "These be her very c's, her u's, and her t's, and thus she makes her great p" or when Hamlet makes reference to "Country matters" as he pointedly lays his head in Ophelia's lap it is fairly obvious what he is getting at and on what syllables the emphasis should be laid!
Mr Bynkii has his fellow travellers have fallen into the trap of believing that simply sprinkling "fuck" into a sentence shifts the energy of the sentiment they are expressing to level where we gasp at his prowess. But no! He lacks the panache and verve of one who is truely profane. Alas, his writing style appears to be driven by a pair of shite encrusted underpants lurking in the linen basket of his imagination. What makes matters worse it appears they were worn by a doubly incontinent syhillitic fuck wit who has all the inventive skills of a scatological sybarite licking the puckered arsehole of mediocrity .... and his goatee makes his face look like a baboon's arse.
UKLUG Supremo and Arch Mandrite of Brick Related Workings makes the big time
Thu, Feb 4th 2010 8:25a Steve McDonagh Noterati, UKLUG and ILUG honco, and Admin Guru a href="http://www.elsmore.net"Warren Elsmore/a has been recognized by the Beeb for building above and beyond the call of duty ... undoubtedly well deserved fame! Well done Warren and although not mentioned [SHAME!] Kitty too!br /
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A new 419 Scam arrived this morning and I just couldnt resist
Fri, Dec 11th 2009 5:55a Steve McDonagh Greetings people! It has been a while since i last posted , busy busy work work, you know the score. However I just couldnt help myself this morning when this popped up in my inbox
British Airways Authority(BAA)
Baggage Claims Unit (S506)
London Heathrow Airport
PO Box 5619
Sudbury Suffolk CO10 2PG
This is British Airport Authority (BAA), the world's leading airport
company. I wish to inform you that a box containing US$5.5 Million has been
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Wee tip about automated agents that produce M$ word or Powerpoint documents
Tue, Nov 24th 2009 7:55a Steve McDonagh If you have a scheduled Domino agent (either local or server) that produces a Wurd or PowerPoint(less) and you suddenly start to see "automation errors" appear... start Wurd or PowerPoint(less) and turn off spelling and grammer checking.
Took me ages to figure out what was going on ... Wurd and PowerPoint(less) will send a message if you are running interactively saying something along the lines of "You are a really crap speller and I have stopped because there are so many mistakes and I rea [read] Keywords: agent
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Bit of a problem with Firefox, Safari and FLEX uploads to a Domino Server
Sun, Nov 8th 2009 4:01p Steve McDonagh After much head scratching over an issue I had with uploads FLEX and Firefox, namely authenticated uploads work in IE but do not in Firefox i have discovered the cause. As described by Jake Howlett over on his excellent CodeStore site FLEX uses a class called the FileReference to get and then upload the file or files the user selects.
The problem comes in that for some reason Firefox does not sent the DomAuthSessId cookie over in the header.. for example here is a header receieved from FLEX f [read] Keywords: agent
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Ohh the modern bible is Nasty Namby Pamby Liberal falsehood
Sun, Nov 8th 2009 3:00p Steve McDonagh LOL this is priceless... and was passed to me by someone who thinks it is a "good" idea and loudly applauds it. I was [thankfully] speechless when he told me because I would have been very very rude had I actually read it at the time he told me about it.
The link I got is here ... however in synopsis
.. As of 2009, there is no fully conservative translation of the Bible which satisfies the following ten guidelines:[2]
Framework against Liberal Bias: providing a strong framework that enab [read] Keywords: administration
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Now this is an interesting a site - Multicolour Search Site
Sun, Nov 8th 2009 12:00p Steve McDonagh Now this is an interesting site, it takes several colours you choose and then presents you Flickr images that contain those colours. Now when trying to get a "scheme" for a web site that combines colours or uses what you believe to be challenging colour combinations this is rather useful as you can see if they do work and if the "real" world uses them too.
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Carl Sagan Day
Sun, Nov 8th 2009 12:00p Steve McDonagh Ah well a little late on the ball for the blog, but it is the week end and I was doing other things. Yesterday Nov 7th was the first Carl Sagan Day celebrating what would have been the eponymous scientist's 75th birthday.
Carl Sagan was one of my hero's as a teenager interested in all things scientific. One of the few "big" books that has followed me from house to house and has survived several "clear outs" is "Cosmos" and as my own small part in the celebrations of the day I re-read several [read] Keywords: blogger
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Pope Benedict the Anglicans the Guardian and married Priests
Sat, Nov 7th 2009 5:03p Steve McDonagh I was in a conversation the other evening about Pope BendyDick's recent repeated offer to the Anglican communions that should get get all annoyed, cross and fuming over the fact that someone who naturally has a uterus and no willy be made a bishop can come and be Catholics. Now the offer is open not only to Anglicans one at a time but aslo for full congregations including the priests, now this poses somewhat of a problem for those priests that are Anglican and are married.
Now the Guardian is [read] Keywords: document
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My Cousin Andy on stage, on CD an in Print
Thu, Nov 5th 2009 8:03p Steve McDonagh Just back from the "big smoke" (or Belfast if you prefer) where my cousin Andy White orginally from Belfast has just launched his book to a crowd of native Norn Ironer's including myself.
I am just home with the new CD and Book and both are worth a listen and a read.. You can find details and a few tracks over on his web site.
You can find the CD "Songwriter" on amazon but there is only 1 left!!! It is not on iToons yet , but keep and eye open if you like your music thoughtful, melodic an [read] Keywords: blogger
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Thinking of a new career
Tue, Nov 3rd 2009 10:57a Steve McDonagh It comes to us all from time to time, general malaise, dicomfortature with the day to day slog and a feeling of dissatisfaction with the way your life is progressing. Well today was one of those days for me. Rather than sit around moping and being grumpy which is my usual recourse at times like these I decided to mark today with a potential change in direction career wise. Get a little more £'s in the pension pot and all that. So having had a look in the "Sits Vac" I think I may have found the [read] Keywords: blogger
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