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Please follow the link to the original post: Benefit Scrounging Scum: You don't know what you've got til its gone... #NHS 7 Mar 2012 | 09:18 pm

Bendy Girl says it better than I can – and Joni Mitchell sings it better than me, too... I mean, I sing it pretty well but, oh, please go and read the linked post. And celebrate everything that is jus...

Inaccessibility, Speech-to-text, Post-surgery 'fun' and Other Stories 28 Sep 2011 | 01:02 pm

Trey Harris's eloquent report on his recent surgery and the resultant need to use dictation software - in his case, mostly Dragon Dictate - should stand as a wake-up call to anyone who builds such sof...

Free Concert for Petition Signature or vice versa... 18 Aug 2011 | 04:37 pm

ONE International is a grassroots advocacy and campaigning organization that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa, by raising public awareness and pressuring politica...

Michael 'Würzel' Burston. R.I.P. 11 Jul 2011 | 11:16 am

I've just heard about the death of an old friend. Würzel (Michael Burston) was truly a gentleman, a gentle man, open, warm-hearted, generous, so easy to be around. He was a consummate musician, he w....

Ponies for All 28 Apr 2011 | 03:34 am

“Ponies for all” could lead to a large-ish slump in forecourt petrol sales with knock-on effects on the oil industry but hay and stabling costs are pretty high. Current pony purchase prices range from...

Waxing Lyrical 31 Mar 2011 | 05:46 pm

I’ve been slightly-off-world lately, in great part thanks to the interesting side-effects of the counter-intuitively trade-named Lyrica which continue to steal my words and give me other ones instead....

Yell...............................................ow! 10 Mar 2011 | 07:03 pm

An Open Letter To My Friend And To All Whom It May Concern (Pursuant to my visit to your blog as per your request to tell you what you'd written. More accurately, to tell you whether what you'd writt...

Suffering from Irritable Duncan Smith-itis or why my doctor is a liar 21 Feb 2011 | 02:29 am

A Guest/Cross Post from my friend The Purple Fairy "Apparently I am a fraud!  Hey!  How exciting, now I am labelled as something other than average or invisible!  Not that I have been officially told...

Blame And Recrimination 19 Feb 2011 | 03:52 pm

Blame And Recrimination (A Protest Song in a Reggae Style, inspired by Life, Aswad,  Benefits, Disabilities, Prejudice - and a new typeface called Syncopate, which doesn't copy over!) *One-a, Two-a,...

A Valentine's Gift to Current Welfare-To-Work Programme Contractors and Other Stories 15 Feb 2011 | 12:43 pm

Watching "Live Questions to The Work and Pensions Secretary and his Ministers" on BBC Parliament this afternoon I thought I heard Iain Duncan Smith say, in answer to a question from Dame Anne Begg MP,...

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