Eyebrows. They need trimming? Why did the hair dresser ask me that, and why never before? I was told the answer at the Troon real ale festival about a week later. The following morning I'm fixing an amplifier that has increased the sounds levels of music for me for over …
"But Dad, you might be wrong." I couldn't disagree with my nine year-old son, though I said I'd given the matter much thought. We were walking down the hill from the polling station where I had just cast my vote in the Scottish independence referendum. Two weeks before that, sat …
Voxelands is a fork of Minetest which itself is a Free and Open Source (FOSS) reworking of the more famous Minecraft. I enjoyed Minecraft's immersive blocky world and there were lots of interesting mods to enhance and extend the game, but I found the process of installing them was far …
I've updated the analysis I performed at the weekend to include the five polls released since then: ICM for The Sunday Telegraph; ICM for The Scotsman; Panelbase for The Sunday Times; Opinium for The Daily Telegraph; and Survation for The Daily Mail. All of these were online polls. Here are …
Poll companies are finding the Scottish referendum to be a real challenge. It's unlike any general election: there are only two options (yes and no) and the turnout is expected to be high, perhaps 90%, compared to 50% for the 2011 Scottish elections and 65% for the UK elections in …
This isn't about my worshiping of Bacchus whilst using linux in a sauna, but instead about getting a windows-only steam game to work on a recent 64 bit linux distro. I'm using slackware, but I suspect the pitfalls and solutions I encountered would be similar on other distros. This article …
Since I wrote my last blog post on independence back in July, I've thought about the matter more and spent more time reading about the issues involved and discussing them with other people. I'm not going to talk about the high profile debates, nor am I going to comment on …
"Good evening dear. Would you like to eat a meal cooked with this red powder sent from Hungary by a chap I've only ever met on the internet?" I didn't introduce the meal like that in actual fact, and if I did I might have been sent out for pizza …
On September 18th 2014 people resident in Scotland will be asked "Should Scotland be an independent country?". I am not in favour of independence as currently proposed, partly because I am concerned that it is really driven by nationalism, but also because I think the possible benefits are not (yet …
Many years ago (about 13 if you must know) I was standing waiting in a colleague's office when I happened to notice a sheet of paper pinned to the wall. On it there was a picture of a pint glass filled with small rocks, gravel and sand. You might know …
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