Made in Japan

I’m getting ready to travel to Japan next month. I’m fascinated by Japan and its modern history. Well, at least its modern history from 1947 onwards, if you know what I mean. I’ve been looking around to see what sights are worth seeing, and I think I’ve found a few. See what you think.

First of [...]

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Shoogly Peg

If there are any regular readers left of this blog they will have noticed a distinct lack of activity lately. The posts have been coming much less frequently and they’ve been even worse than before. Frankly, as we say in Scotland, The Earl of Hell’s Waistcoat has been on a shoogly peg.
I’ve enjoyed writing the [...]

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33% Hetero

Buggeration! I’ve just put my Twitter Feed into this Hetero Calculator produced by the Stockholm Pride folks and it’s trying to tell me that I’m 33% Hetero! Me! Analyzing the results, it seems that the words that knocked my score down include bugger, shop, rainbow, flower and brilliant. Hmm, it seems that this Tweet from [...]

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Stories I Have Tried to Write

I can’t think of anything to blog about. Nothing. Nada. Hee-Haw.
This has never stopped me posting lame muck before of course, but at this point I really can’t think of anything that I want to sit down and write a post about. There’s no real reason for it: I’m busy at work, but isn’t everyone? [...]

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Thumper Plowman Performance Appraisal 2008/09 Feedback Form

Hello there, well we’re coming to the end of another year here at The Earl of Hell’s Waistcoat, which means that I am obliged to ask for feedback on my performance ahead of my annual review. While I appreciate that you’re all busy folk, I’m hoping that you’ll take a minute or two out of [...]

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