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Hurricane Katrina 2 (00:46) - After my posting about my expectations of America's response to the disaster and on the day that America actually asked other countries for help I've discovered that my friends share the same sentiment (its always nice to have a... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Climate change! (02:16) - The forecast for tomorrow morning in Glasgow is round about 14ºC...That's at 7am. Its expected to be 20ºC by the afternoon. This is SCOTLAND FER CHRISSAKES!?! Where's the rain and gloom? Its almost getting to the point where its... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

G8 In Edinburgh (12:53) - Well it seems that most of Scotland is gearing up for the G8 summit at the start of the July. A lot of people I know are planning to go and protest (or at least see what the whole... | 0 Comments

British Summer Time (10:32) - So Saturday was quite a nice day, so me & some of my friends went for a wander, that culminated in a spontaneous picnic in the Botanic Gardens. I guess that British Summer Time is now over View image... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Work (13:59) - Had a link to this article forwarded on to me, about one of the projects that I am actually writing! That's my work!... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

US Presidential elections (23:10) - Its strange, but as Sammiches mentioned today, the current US Presidential election could well be one of the most pivotal events this century. It seems that unlike previous years, there are whole blocks of countries that have vested interest in... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Does this count... (11:27) - as circumventing a copy protection device? ;-)... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Open-Media.org (19:58) - This looks like a really interesting project, that is being set up by JD Lasica and Marc Canter, which aims to open up repositories of Public Domain and Creative Commons materials as well as setting up a huge repository of... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

BNL Round the world (01:28) - I must remember to try to make one of these meetings if I'm ever in Islamabad, being the BareNaked Ladies fan that I am....errr maybe not...:-)... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Tchai Ovna Under Threat (00:53) - Some news from the West End of Glasgow which I was quite shocked to hear, but it appears that there is a chance that Tchai Ovna (which is a really cool and charismatic tea shop) may end up going the... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

A night on the tiles (03:49) - It was just a flat warming party for a friend of myself and Sammiches (d!SGIA contributors) which has resulted in a rather strange bit of text from Sammiches (posted for posterity on d!SGIA). The important bit for me isn't that,... | 0 Trackbacks

According to El Reg the (14:48) - According to El Reg the next generation of biometric passports will require your photograph of you to be not smiling. This is further backed up by the guidelines on the UK Passport Office website: Applicants must submit two identical photographs,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Copy Left & The Metro (17:09) - You know when things are starting to enter the general public consciousness when they appear in the Metro (for any one who doesn't know, The Metro is an free, ad supported newspaper that distributed on public transport in various... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

I was sure that I (16:29) - I was sure that I had linked to an article I read a couple of months ago about a new system for increasing drivers' awareness by (effectively) removing all the markings on the roads, and eliminating separate pavements for pedestrians,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Its Tony Bennett's 78th birthday (00:00) - Its Tony Bennett's 78th birthday today --------... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments