There's two reasons I've been neglecting this blog lately, it's partly because I've lost momentum following a break for travels and entertaining visitors, but mostly it's been due to the zeitgeist that is Facebook. A web site that is highly addictive but only really starts to become interesting when you've got enough friends. Thankfully, somehow, ( Read more... )

Hey, Google Maps have got high-resolution satellite images of Edinburgh at long last! Judging from the buildings that still stand and the fact that the previous resident of my ex-flat in South Gray St is parked in the flat's allocated spot, I'd say these images are from 2005 or earlier... more specifically summer as the grandstand seats for the ( Read more... )

Ever wondered about who the type of people are who have enough time in their life to write Wikipedia articles? Well just take a look at this photo. Need I say more? Other than this is how you can meet these people. :-)

If 2005 was the year of moving for me (having started the year at my Parents following my PhD, I moved to Winchester in January, and then from July I moved between three different flats in Edinburgh), then 2006 was certainly my year of travel. Last year I travelled further North, South, East and West than I've been before. In March I endured a 20 ( Read more... )

Google Calendar has a great new feature that I've been using for some time now, where you can display little weather forecast icons on your week ahead diary view:


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My love affair with Google continues. Having become addicted to RSS feeds I thought I should collect all my feeds together in Bloglines as there were now far too many feeds distracting me on my Google Homepage, and it was too easy to let some important ones fade into the background. The idea being that when I've got the time to browse through the ( Read more... )

This blog is worth checking out if you fancy a laugh and are not offended too easily! I discovered it when Andy sent me a link to this entry on "Is Your Car Patriotic", and I got carried away reading entries on Israel v Lebanon and Linux v Microsoft. Thinking that surely this blog has to be a spoof (yanks surely couldn't be *that* polarised) - it ( Read more... )

The Register have a whole collect of Zidane headbutts. :-)

...but this is my favourite.

I've become addicted to everything Google lately. I now have a Google Homepage, keep my diary on Google Calendar, plan trips with Google Maps, chat to people with Google Mail, manage my photos with Google Picasa, share my photos on the web with Google Picasa Web, and generally waste a lot of time with Google Earth... then there's Froogle for ( Read more... )