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Old 24-03-2011, 22:01
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Musings while trying to code web pages recently:

Redo from start.

I know too much already,
now my head is getting heavy
and my little pinkies aren't very well.
CSS is cool,
but I'm too much old school
to learn to do HTML.

It's the same with C++.
I got BASIC just
when object oriented came out.
I could do some assembler,
but I never remember
what classes and pointers are about.

Give me firewall configs
and name server digs
and I apt-get along real fine.
But cascading style?
I just run a mile.
Too many ways to align.

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And; while being undecided:

I'm free.

You know; to be or not to be, can sometimes be - the sanity of quiet free.
Or merge the cold and shiny words, as told to me by men and birds.

For now, fear I no smiley tap. No vengeful strap may sheer my nap.
For style and famous doth corrupt. Who knows what mad men may obstruct
this freedom to be quite unknown. Can't catch me - I'm all alone.

Or © my name and my number? Would I really write hereunder
all the things I'd want to say, if you could come and break my day?

No then. Well fank frank for that. Perhaps I'll buy a pussy cat.
You'll never know the real me. Hallelujah! I am free.

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Old 24-03-2011, 22:08
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Ere I walk anon,
With grandeur and aplomb.

Ere I lay, alack,
I have smoked too much crack.

© Biffo the Bear 2011
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Old 24-03-2011, 22:15
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Ere I walk anon,
With grandeur and aplomb.

Ere I lay, alack,
I have smoked too much crack.

© Biffo the Bear 2011
I can tell it's going to be a great Part 3 Mr B.
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Old 24-03-2011, 22:15
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What must've been said, in this thread, to make it so very dead?
Oh, part 3, I see, silly me.
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Old 24-03-2011, 22:18
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Three very interesting poems Archiver It's a pity One Sky got left behind on the other thread

Hi Biffo I don't remember that in your Beano exploits

Welcome to Part 3 everyone
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Old 25-03-2011, 00:03
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Well here to part three cos two has gone.
It now lies in history with part one.
Is poetry dead an art long past.
not here, not here on DS.

Now they clamour to get the last post.
The poem to end and yet begin the next thread.
Who will decide what that poem will be.
Not the poet but the powers that be.

Congratulations on your third thread.

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Old 25-03-2011, 00:21
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Ey oop Sasser That's a great ditty to help kick off Part 3 - thanks
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Old 25-03-2011, 10:15
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the quest

I need to find an ebb and flow that renders
The undertow and those romantic splendours
So tangible the hardest heart surrenders.

Where every wave is full of dreams that last
And every fountain guides a golden mast
And every ripple slides into the past.

Where sirens are so beautiful young princes
Learn of a love so special it evinces
A memory that's lost and yet convinces.

The seeker cannot put aside his quest
Until he finds this sea-home and can rest
Submerged in deeps harmonious and blessed.


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Old 25-03-2011, 18:07
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An exquisitely crafted poem Musty with remarkable imagery.


Blinding stuff indeed!


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Old 25-03-2011, 18:48
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An exquisitely crafted poem Musty with remarkable imagery.

Blinding stuff indeed!
Thank you Troy Most of this one came to me while I was wandering around Horsham recently. That's ok, but it's important to memorize key rhymes when you're out or the poem can get forgotten.
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Old 25-03-2011, 19:15
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Methinks for our betterment we'd be better for far more smiles
Pity is that petulance and frowns can be much more prevalent
Our mood may be low to midling, down or deeply direly worse
Polarities of blandishments morph through perversity to curse
Among our frail accomplishments make best of humour's bent
Jokes help you through dark waters and stab at blue crocodiles

Frank.
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Old 26-03-2011, 11:45
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Methinks for our betterment we'd be better for far more smiles
Pity is that petulance and frowns can be much more prevalent
Our mood may be low to midling, down or deeply direly worse
Polarities of blandishments morph through perversity to curse
Among our frail accomplishments make best of humour's bent
Jokes help you through dark waters and stab at blue crocodiles

Frank.
Good advice, Frank. From now on I'm going to keep a few jokes handy in my backpack incase I encounter any blue crocodiles.

Interesting pattern of line endings there.
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Old 26-03-2011, 11:45
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Lovely to see the new chapter buzzing.
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Old 26-03-2011, 12:28
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"Real Programmers use JCL" !

Everyone knows

Linux is much better than WIndows

But will it run on my computer? Well, here goes ..........
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Old 26-03-2011, 18:39
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Our mood may be low to middling, down or deeply direly worse
As you say Frank, smiles are better by far but it's so hard to avoid different mood swings. An interesting ode
Lovely to see the new chapter buzzing.
Hi Biz Our third tenancy! Quite a feat for poetry
Linux is much better than WIndows
Speaking as a true techno-numpty, you lost me there Spiney
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Old 26-03-2011, 19:12
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Actress Elizabeth Taylor died from a heart failure,
a heart put severely to many a test pursuing love.
She tangled on many a reef that ensnare errant
relationshipwrecks. Matters of her heart's desires
occupied oursilver screen goddess in a Sargasso
Sea of romantic love. Mortal she was though rich
in so many ways. death tragedy and ill health as
constant visitors as those to her Hollywood star.
Beauty would tarnish naturally from those heights
given by fortune's providence but a cloak of grace
would tarry and settle around this elegant person.
Elizabeth's tender heart rent so often rendered rest;
great life: mega epic, modern Cleopatra to: The End.
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Old 26-03-2011, 22:05
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Our third tenancy! Quite a feat for poetry
So we're agreed. Poetry is not a dead art.
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Old 26-03-2011, 22:12
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"Real Programmers use JCL" !

Everyone knows

Linux is much better than WIndows

But will it run on my computer? Well, here goes ..........
I'm the same as Musty, but my curiosity got the better of me :-

From Wikipedia - Job Control Language (JCL) is a scripting language used on IBM mainframe operating systems to instruct the system on how to run a batch job or start a subsystem. The term "Job Control Language" can also be used generically to refer to all languages which perform these functions, such as Burroughs' WFL and ICL's OCL. This article is specifically about IBM's JCL.

Let us know the result of the venture - in verse of course, if that is possible - unfortunately I haven't the gift.
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Old 26-03-2011, 22:16
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I find most Poetry a load of pish !

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Old 26-03-2011, 22:21
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You prefer fish?
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Old 26-03-2011, 22:46
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From Wikipedia - Job Control Language (JCL) is a scripting language used on IBM mainframe operating systems to instruct the system on how to run a batch job or start a subsystem. The term "Job Control Language" can also be used generically to refer to all languages which perform these functions, such as Burroughs' WFL and ICL's OCL. This article is specifically about IBM's JCL.
I'm even more lost now
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Old 26-03-2011, 23:04
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Some say; it's a load of pish.
Others; it's a rare dish
better heard within a song
to help the mindless day along.

Some even say; that one short line
can make their day or mark a time
when everything was better then.
What better use for a pen?

To sign a cheque for some new toy?
To write to beg for new employ?
To write off for some chicken feed?
Or write as if to somehow plead;

for sanity. For peace of mind.
It helps me to unwind
the mysteries of humankind.
I came, I and then I rhymed;

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Old 26-03-2011, 23:05
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You prefer fish?
Not even on a dish

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Old 26-03-2011, 23:53
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Elizabeth's tender heart rent so often rendered rest;
great life: mega epic, modern Cleopatra to: The End.
Another irreplaceable piece of Hollywood falls away Nice tribute Frank
I came, I and then I rhymed;
LOL Vini vidi vici updated - I like it Archiver
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Old 27-03-2011, 00:39
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LOL Vini vidi vici updated - I like it Archiver
Thanks Musty. I agree it's a shame One Sky got left on the end of part 2. Redo From Start is too technical for the first in part 3. Oh well, the DS blade cuts and cannot be undone.
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