Ah, Scotland. Never again will I complain of your preference for operating towards the cooler parts of the temperature scale. Well maybe until I’m blessed with a body shape that doesn’t exhibit all the hallmarks of the greenhouse effect. Yes, Manchester was still too bloody hot. I was granted enough of an overnight respite from …
I used to joke that when it came to temperatures, I’m a bit of a reptile. Of course, in my natural Caledonian settings, that often meant that I could quite comfortably accommodate the cooler (viz. ‘witch’s teat’) temperatures that Scotland enjoys. As a wise person once pointed out, Scotland is on the same latitude as …
Thursday 6th of May is going to to be an important day in my life. It’s the last day of my anti-depressant use. There was also some kind of election, but that’s possibly for another day. The past two weeks have been among the most personally productive of my life, especially when the necessity of …
My initial plan for my last post of 2009 — technically now the first post of 2010 according to the clock on my tool-bar — was to craft a witty pastiche of the annual Christmas Letter beloved of many, but I’ve decided not. There wasn’t going to be much mileage in a parody that hung …
I’d like to think I’m a utilitarian when it comes to technology, with lots of modest single function applications in my home and shoulder bag arsenal. To date I’ve been content to use one of the generic corporate Nokias that my employer has been kind enough to give me. I’m not sure how much value …
Back home in the cool gloom of Edinburgh. As much as I enjoy the sun this time of year, I prefer to experience it reclined on a travel rug nursing a good book and a cool drink. Walking and Tubing it around London not only played merry heck with my feet but I had to …
Day one over in London. Don’t feel much like blogging but the 140-character limit of Twitter just doesn’t seem enough. Here’s a compromise – a bullet point review. London is still horribly hot. Had to peel my jacket off my shirt which had aquired a pint of sweat between Heathrow and Hammersmith. A little nugget …
Something rather pleasant and surprising occurred to me recently – I’m reading rather voraciously again. Aside from any work-related reading and the studying I’m doing for my part-time theology class, I seem to be ploughing my way though novels at the rate of one a week. That hit rate will probably slide once I move …
I was pleased to see that Amazon had ventured into the downloadable music market recently. What’s particularly laudible is that they only offer DRM-free downloads. I have a strange relationship with DRM – or in Facebook speak, “It’s Complicated”. It’s fine when its unobtrusive, for example its use on the Steam games download platform or …
My electronic diary has been nagging me of late with one of those ill-considered ideas that may have seemed worthwhile when originally keyed. Only this time it seems to have worked! I’ve been toying with the idea of Ebay, and latterly using Amazon Marketplace, preferring to donate to charity those odds and sods that were …