Now this apparently is a contraversial post, being that i have been accused of breaking the rules. [Adrian] I think it is a rather creative way to get around the fact that there is very little in the world that starts with X.

X-Rays are incredibly hard to get hold of due to radiation and fears that i will turn into a super-see-through piece of walking transparency, or soemthing should it bite me.

Xylophones only exist in schools to provide a visual aid to one of the most boring, and elusive letters in our alphabet.



I didn't want to photograph another console, as i actually despise it, I dislike the X-box for many reasons, primarily because i am terrible at it. but also felt it was a little too obvious.

So i settled with this creative excursion away from the letter X, in an admittedly terrible picture.

Charlie's Picture of the day : X is for X in Roman Numerals, and the Metric System.

So X. Meaning 10 in Roman numerals, was the first way of breaking things into tens, which is now standard across most of Europe, and a lot of the World. In terms od measuring anything, liquid, distance, monetary units, there is no escaping it.

Adam Hart-Davis would love me for this; This is what the Roman's did for us. They helped create amoung many other things [After stealing them from other sources] to standardise everything, make things fair and easy to understand wherever you are.

This is my 'X' Adrian, and i am confused as to why you dislike it so much, based on the fact if i'd come back with any of the above things, I am sure you'd be fairly dissapointed i'd been boring. So I thought I would be a little leftfield today. Make it interesting.

Hmmmmm. Point taken though, maybe i should have tried to photograph Xenophobia. Maybe next time.


Last Alphabet Blog: W



The Story So Far in Alphabet Soup :

Alphabet Soup: A Half Explaination, and Experiment
Day 1 / A: MK II. A isn't for Apple
Day 2 / B: B isn't for ball, balloon, or bird. Not bus, bike or boat.
Day 3 / C: C isn't for cats, or cars. Its for diggers and smugness??
Day 4 / D: D isn't for Dogs, Ducks, Dynamite, or Des Lynam
Day 5 / E: E is for Near Calamity & An Exam
Day 6 / F: F isn't for Frogs, but it IS for French, kind of.
Day 7 / G: G is for Gambling and Gay Games
Day 8 / H : H is for water and friendship.
Day 9 / I: I is for Ice Bar.
Day 10 / J: J is for Disappointment
Day 11 / K: K is not for kites.
Day 12 / L: L is for Leftovers fit for Lions
Day 13 / M: M is for Mysteries of Kinds
Day 14 / N: N is for Laziness
Day 15 / O: O is not for Oranges
Day 16 / P: P is for CAKE
Day 17 / Q: Q is for Quarters
Day 18 / R: R is for Roof thats leaking.
Day 19 / S: S is for Scoresheet
Day 20 / T: T is for Tea
Day 21 / U: U is not for Umbrella
Day 22 / V: V is for Vendetta
Day 23 / W: W is for Wasting Days
Day 24 / X: X isn't for X-Ray