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Nickname or 'nicksentence'?

Thursday, April 23 2009, Blog, wim, 1 comments

Nickname or 'nicksentence'?

With regards to a recent news story "Soldier's 'lucky' bullet escape" , I heard a news flash being read out on Radio 1 Newsbeat which literally contained the following: "...the soldier is now being nicknamed 'The luckiest soldier in the British army'..." That is some crappy nickname. Doesn't quite roll from the tongue now, does it? Leon 'The luckiest soldier in the British army' Wilson. Whatever. Nicknames need to be short and snappy. More than two or three words and they're not nicknames anymore, but 'nicksentences' in my book. Jeff Lebowski agrees. Can you imagine him calling...

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Up and running. Again.

Tuesday, April 21 2009, Blog, The Admin, 1 comments

Up and running. Again.

Just a quick first post to say that I'm chuffed I've got my personal website back up again. I will be mainly using this to spout off on just about anything that tickles my fancy. It could be technology related (I love gadgets) but it could also be topical or opinionated pieces on things that catch my eye (or ear) in the media. Thanks to Telligent for providing such a superb and easy to use web CMS: http://graffiticms.com/ - this site runs on GraffitiCMS 1.2. Worth checking out if you're after an easy to use CMS solution for your website. Until next time, stay tuned and welcome to my personal blog...

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