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I put the retreat diary in the blog when I first got back. But with hindsight it makes more sense to keep it on the main site, so I’ve moved it into the Project section.
It’s divided into first week…

On the 23rd December, I announced a simple but effective spam-blocking device for comments on the blog using a password system. See Comment spam – password (required).
I finished the post with the rhetorical question:
“Let’s see how long it…

Like everyone else who runs a weblog, I’m being pestered by comment spammers.
Because search engines (and Google in particular) rank sites by the number of links to them, spammers are now sending in hundreds of comments to blogs. With…

This is sad.. Really it is.
Ruth has gone out (”Ru-ubee, don’t take your love to town”), the kids are asleep and I’ve got a chance to rewire the guitar, or work through the backlog of tapes, or research cottages…

I’ve just realised that my set of first principles has one crucial principle – no the first pre-eminent first principle missing.
And that principle would be, Jim?
“If anything can go wrong, it will.”
It’s alright, I’ve just updated the…

So I’ve built the shelves and started sorting out the piles of cassettes that will be stored on them. I’ve bought a cassette deck, plugged it into the system and arghhh! Is that me!
Or, more soberly, I’ve added a…

I’ve changed the format of the music section. It still covers only a short section of my long and varied career, but it’s now a little bit more accessible.
Instead of linking full length tracks, you can now listen to…

I’ve re-organised the guitar section of the web site. The history of the guitars I’ve used has been moved over to the biography section where it rightly belongs, and the 50th Anniversary Strat now has a page of its own…

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – oh bugger!
Since I started putting pics on the site to accompany the biography, I’ve been pestered to add more. For some reason, you want to see pictures of this…

I’ve started adding pictures to the web site from the extensive Bisset archive. Not that it’s that extensive really – trying to hold the guitar, the pose, the mirror and the camera proved quite difficult.
So I had to resort…