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Posted in Uncategorized on October 14 2009 | 2 Comments »
So where would you rather be on a Monday morning in October?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged BBC, Mondays, office, Tiree, windsurfing, work. on October 12 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There you are just about to go off to your nice cosy office for another hard day at the coalface. You are glad to have a job, but at the same time you wonder if life could perhaps be a little bit more exciting. Well it could be – watch this video on the BBC [...]
Krakow
Posted in Uncategorized on October 8 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Another wee article in the World Architecture News today – front page!
Chicago Riverwalk
Posted in Uncategorized on October 7 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have been published again on the World Architecture News website so you can read my article there.
The Silent Beehive
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bees, EU, Neonicitinoids, NFU Scotland, Pesticides, Pollination, Rowse Honey, The Potato Council on October 2 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yet another day when bees are mentioned in the press. It is a problem that requires an answer and soon. If we do nothing about the vanishing numbers of bees then there is every danger that we will have nothing to eat in the not too distant future. The link is to an announcement about [...]
Carl Kemm Loven
Posted in Uncategorized on September 30 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I know you feel neglected but I have a few things on at the moment pulling me in different directions. For the moment here is my latest published article in World Architecture News. I will be back to keep you company soon!
No central data base
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged crime, databse, Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, police, terrorism on April 27 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ministers have backed down over plans for a centralised database of email, telephone and internet usage. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith says there are “absolutely no plans for a single central store” of communications data. But she says such records are needed so police can investigate crime and terrorism.
Asimo
Posted in Edinburgh, Uncategorized, tagged Asimo, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Science Festival, Honda, queue, Robot, science, Scotland on April 19 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What a cute little guy Asimo is. He is shiny and white, looks as though he may be wearing a kind of spacesuit and has a kind of boyish voice. He is very well behaved and goes back into his tent at the end of the show. So what is he? [...]
Health & Safety
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cemeteries, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Council, Health & Safety, Morningside Community Council, Morningside Parish Church on April 18 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Council “vandalises” Cemeteries Walking past a cemetery in Edinburgh last summer I honestly thought that we had been hit by a hurricane which I had somehow missed. Headstones were flipped flat on their backs all over the place. Had there been a severe storm that I had slept through? But it [...]
Blue Man Group
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Blue Man Group, Boston, Music on April 16 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I saw this group last week in Boston. They were FAB! They had two willing participants from the audience – one girl who ate Twinkies, albeit a little reluctantly to start with and then gasped along with the rest of us at the results! The other was a young man who was very brave [...]
Prisoner payouts to be brought under control
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged European Convention on Human Rights, House of Lords, Human Rights, Kenny McAskill, Scotland Act, Scottish Government, Somerville on April 3 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Scottish taxpayer will no longer foot the bill for cases brought by prisoners concerning infringements of their human rights, where the cases are brought after a certain period of time. The Scottish Government will have the power to limit the cases brought against them under the Scotland Act for such damages, if the order [...]
Is this the end of the newspaper?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged April Fool on April 1 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today The Guardian has stated that it will be giving up print in favour of Twitter, speculating that all news stories can be reduced to 140 characters. Truly then this is the age of convergence journalism. No more bulky newspapers on the bus. Just access to a Twitter device. Ah, life will be much [...]
A quiet end
Posted in Uncategorized on March 31 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Philip Morris v Mayola Williams Some court cases can take a while. With a very few words the US Supreme Court has, today, 31st March 2009, finally brought an end to a case which has been running since 1997. The short order issued by the court threw out the latest, and apparently the last, [...]
The Gathering Storm?
Posted in Uncategorized on March 30 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Twenty of the world’s most influential leaders meet this week in London at the Excel Centre on the banks of the Thames. They meet during a period of almost unprecedented financial turmoil. But will they come up with world-changing solutions? The United Kingdom chairs the Group of Twenty in 2009 and this week it hosts the G20 summit. The [...]
It’s good to talk
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged accounting, government costs, ministerial staff, mobile phones, Scottish Government on March 27 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Scottish Government cannot tell us how much has been paid for their staff’s personal phone calls. Staff are responsible for paying back the charges incurred on mobile phones for personal calls but nobody knows exactly how much has actually been paid. Figures now available show that the total cost of work mobile phone bills used by [...]
Earth Hour
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged City Car Club, Climate Change, Earth Hour, EU, Kyoto, Scottish Government, Sweden on March 27 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Earth Hour is nearly here. On Saturday 28th March at 8.30 pm local time you are urged switch your lights off in an effort to help save the planet. The movement began in Sydney in 2007. More than 2 million people switched off their lights for one hour. During 2008 the movement gathered momentum [...]
Edinburgh Festival – the show must go on!
Posted in Uncategorized on March 26 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Neither the tram works in Edinburgh’s city centre nor the renovation works at the Usher Hall will be allowed to interrupt the 63rd Edinburgh International Festival when it is staged in August this year, according to Jonathan Mills, Festival Director. The Usher Hall will be ready in time to host a show [...]
Sylvia Plath
Posted in Uncategorized on March 23 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sylvia Plath Stack Originally uploaded by carael A stack of books by Sylvia Plath. Her son, Nicholas Hughes has just committed suicide, as indeed she did herself when she turned on the gas oven whilst he and his sister slept next door. What talent she must have had to write all of these books! What [...]
Earth Hour
Posted in Uncategorized on March 23 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Vote Earth – Video Originally uploaded by Earth Hour Global Remember to vote for earth! Earth Hour – one billion people are encouraged to switch off the lights on Saturday 28th March 2009 at 8.30 pm local time. Remember!
Entertainment News
Posted in Uncategorized on March 23 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are always lots of things to see and do here in Scotland’s Capital City. Henry’s Cellar Bar hosted Finlay Quaye last week. Out of the limelight in recent years after an initial run of hits he is still a Scottish artist of some note! The National Library of Scotland held a free public event [...]
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