Occulomency

I've got a brand new Combine Harvester.

The Melody Maker charts for the week ending May 29th 1976 explain a great deal about everything that is wrong with music from the 1970s.

1. Fernando - Abba - Mawkish shite.

2. No Charge - J.J. Barrie - Even more mawkish shite.

3 - 7 Generic crap probably.

8. The Wurzels, now we are talking.

9-11 Motown crud.

12. Devil Woman - Cliff Richard.

It's tough to know where to start with Caroline Coon's New Single's section. Do we start with the unfortunate name? The Terrible photograph or the appalling Prose?

I suppose it could be worse. Move on to page 14 and you get "The Slik File" including an in depth expose of James "Midge" Ure (Guitars, Vocals).

 

So Midge, surprise me, what musical training have you had? Oh, that would be none then. OK, lets move forward, who are your musical influences? "Paul McCartney". Midge, you are a twat.

The 70s. Not as good as the 80s.

 

I have been a slack tart.

OK,

I have been a bit of a slack tart haven't I. I have largely forsaken my beloved Occulomency in favour of these new flash social media sites like Friend-face and Jitter or whatever they call themselves.

But it's all false, they aren't my real friends. Not like the lovely folk who stop by my little cave on the periphery of reason.

So.what have I learned this year?

I've learned a lot about the Information Security Standard 27001 and how to implement it into a company's management systems.

More recently I've learned how not to do implement it. I think, over the next few weeks, I'll share this with you here. All names will be changed to protect the innocent, but i think the truth should be told, and tell it I will.

You lucky people.

 

It's nice to be back.