Richard Bloody Scarry! I loved his books! Little worms, owls, cats driving, working, living lives — and always with wee adventures to be engrossed in or providing puzzles to do! The book cover I’ve reproduced here — “Best Rainy Day Book Ever” — was one of the Scarry books I owned as a toddler, and […]
When I was but a bairn, I went to a Catholic primary school only 18 miles away from Glasgow. This meant you were a Celtic supporter, or you didnae like fitba. I ended up settling on the latter. When I went to a “non-denominational” high school, which realistically meant CoS, although there was a fair […]
Finally … finally, finally, finally, finally, finally my 3 phone appeared today … yes, one of those 3G video phone gubbins ones 🙂 I have a couple of mates who work for 3, and as a nice deal to their friends and family, I managed to blag the handset with a sweet 3 months free […]
fanbloodytastic — that is pretty much part of why I stopped buying tabloid newspapers two years ago. The Sun’s full page colour photos of people jumping from the burning World Trade Center in their September 12, 2001 edition sealed the deal for me. I fear I would get more newsworthy material from a dog’s pooperscooper […]
Yes, I’m still alive, just busy at the keyboard or outside in the sunshine. What’s all this sunshine about anyway? This is Scotland, we only have a quota of 2 or 3 hours of sunshine a year, dependent upon how many bailiffs collect from poll tax dodgers … However, I have the sunburned arms and […]
Seems there’s a hiccup in The Animatrix DVD — in this modern day of subtitles on DVDs, you don’t usually get a ‘dirty’ print mastered onto the disc, that is, a version of the film with captions strewn upon it. [Incidentally, I’m using the archaic word ‘print’ when I’ll wager most, if not all, of […]
Once again it seems Dave Winer is a bit slow at picking up editorial pieces on the BBC News website. Then again, this is the same Dave who thinks that the British taxpayer ‘pays’ for the BBC, when it is in fact the British TV licence fee payers who ‘pay’ for it. Sorry to be […]
I was driving back from Andy’s earlier — gave him a lift home to Penilee after a chilled weekend with ade and qif — and I decided to stop in Asda for a couple of odds and sods. On the way out, I spotted a billboard beside the Tryst car park, announcing the new development […]
“Twenty years ago, two computer scientists at the University of Southern California created a key component essential to the modern Internet.” For all the talk about vulnerabilities, low functionality, et cetera, I love that we have robust, proven and — to be frank — old protocols on the net. The biggest change to phone numbers […]