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Our Sun shines with a luminosity of 1L[1]. By the time its light reaches Earth it is already perceived as a much smaller, brighter and hotter disc than it truly is. By the time its light reaches Pluto, 6 billion km from the Sun, it already looks like any other star in Earth's night sky.Our nearest star, Alpha Centuri (A) shines with a luminosity of 1.5L. and is 41.5 trillion km away from us.Question: How can the light of a star, which is one and a half times brighter than our Sun, travel nearly 7000 times further (41.5 trillion divided by 6 billion) and still be perceived to be as bright and large in the Earth's night sky as our Sun would appear when viewed from Pluto?

Looking at the rhymes I wrote in 2012 I am quite surprised at the number which were married to WildScreW musical melodies, effectively turning the poems into songs. "Free Fall", "Beast With Two Backs", "Stung!", "Cougar!" and "On My Own" were all developed from original Thomas Wild guitar melodies, so called ALPHAs, and were professionally recorded on the studio CD which was released at the start of 2017. "On My Own" is a guitar melody which has haunted Thomas, so he claims, since he started to learn to play the guitar and was his personal favourite melody.The WildScreW ALPHAs "Last Man Standing", "Demon Eyes", "Nothin's Gonna Change" and "Adulterous" are, in my opinion, still, today, all useable and listenable ALPHAs and hopefully will one day also be recorded as part of a professional CD album."Hold You In My Arms" is the first poem/song I wrote for Thomas Wild to a guitar melody which wasn't quite rounded enough and my vocals were also somewhat choppy so were mutually agreed to assign the ALPHA to the digital dustbin."Marchin' In" and "Keep Your Distance" were both written for a project band called PackEis and a detailed study of those lyrics is available in a separate book.

A collection of over 90 poems and rhymes from 2019, written mainly as song lyrics, although many "poems" were also amongst the number authored. All song lyrics, for now at least, are missing a musical melody.

On the 19th of November 2010 I began using WORDPRESS as "digital paper" to centrally store and edit my rhymes and I promptly digitized nine of my poems which had managed to survive till that point."Jezebel" was one of those rhymes, written originally as "Live Dangerously" several years earlier (probably around 2007) but which, amazingly, managed to find its way onto a rock CD almost ten years later. "Without You" was also adopted for a WildScreW guitar melody and also found its way onto the CD with the title "On My Own" and "Ain't No Such Thing As Too Young" was also the basis for the CD title "Stung!".I sang "She's Like" to a beautiful Thomas Wild guitar melody but, unfortunately in my opinion, the song remained nothing more than a WildScreW ALPHA. At the end of 2018 I decided to enter it into the 2018 Great American Song Contest for judging.But truthfully, back in 2011, I was cutting my teeth with song lyric writing and none of the many other efforts were to find themselves selected for ALPHAs, although some of the lines and ideas found in these earlier poems are recognizable in later lyrics . Many of my poems from this year were written to loosely fit existing commercial song melodies. There were also a handful of lyrics which were variations on existing, or completely new, lyrics (sometimes a parody in the style of Wierd Al Yankovic) for a popular song.In hindsight I believe this exercise was a good way to gain experience in song lyric structure and rhyming.Several of the rhymes were sent to the Great American Song Contest for appraisal and the results can be found later in this book.

The on-line systems failed to meet their start deadline by hours and resulted in the loss of valuable trade and a tarnished reputation, despite the efforts of costly damage control instigated by customer relations. The cause of the problem was the addition of a new application, which had monopolized the hardware resources during the nightly batch run. Even now more money was being spent upgrading the CPUs and hard disk devices, so that the catastrophe wouldn't recur.The situation could describe any company, anywhere, any when, and any application. Blinkered management and ill-informed specialists still pontificate, that a programmer's time is their most expensive resource and that programs should be written to work, and not to work efficiently.This book dismantles these traditional ideas and demonstrates how highly efficient and maintainable COBOL Applications can be written, and includes many examples of SECTION and program optimizing as well as discourses into VSAM, JES2 JCL and online programming.

A collection of over 30 poems and rhymes from 2020, written mainly as song lyrics, with a fistful of "poems" also amongst the number authored. A handful of the song lyrics were also written to music which, "music God" willing, will one day soon make it to a professionally recordd CD collection.

Documentation of the various trials and tribulations which led to the WildScreW band name logo, the CD cover and booklet art and even the graffito tag which also adorns this eBOOK's cover illustration.For this eBOOK I have drawn heavily on the relevant blog entries which have not only jogged a few of my memories concerning the process, but have also, effectively, meant that the chonological detail is accurate.

Our Sun shines with a luminosity of 1L. By the time its light reaches Earth it is already perceived as a much smaller, brighter and hotter disc than it truly is. By the time its light reaches Pluto, 6 billion km from the Sun, it already looks like any other star in Earth's night sky.Our nearest star, Alpha Centuri (A) shines with a luminosity of 1.5L. and is 41.5 trillion km away from us.Question: How can the light of a star, which is one and a half times brighter than our Sun, travel nearly 7000 times further (41.5 trillion divided by 6 billion) and still be perceived to be as bright and large in the Earth's night sky as our Sun would appear when viewed from Pluto?