The Best Of The Fringe Podcast: Four Poofs and a Piano

As mentioned yesterday, I’m going to be repackaging some of the older interview from the Edinburgh Fringe podcasts in the run up to the 2009 Fringe starting on August 7th. The first interview from the archives are three singers who, with a fourth member who was lost around Leith Docks on the day, make up [...]

The Scottish Summer… Foggy

Kevin called me yesterday, from the backing hot sun of France, and the heat-wave in the south of England. “What’s the weather like up there, mate?”
Still foggy.

But at least it’s a summer fog and there is sun on top of it. In the winter it’s just a rain cloud descending to sea level!

Ed McMahon: The Master’s Master. RIP

Ed McMahon died today.

Both of them will be missed, but wherever they are it’s going to be a fantastic show tonight.

Quote of the Day – Chamberlain, Cromwell and Martin

"Could I ask you, sir, to bear in mind that the condition of the house now is rather like the condition of the country at the time of the Norway debate, and could you reflect on that?"
Sir Patrick Cormack (C) after Speaker Martin’s statement to the House of Commons.

Even I drew a breath on this [...]

Martian Death Ray Over Edinburgh

I had intended to take a picture of today’s sun in Edinburgh, with a view of the castle and the Royal Mile in frame (as well as Waverly Station) but thanks to catch the light in a poor camera phone lens, it looks like a green death ray from a Martian War machine is razing [...]

In The Electronic Kingdom Of The Blind…

…where is my one-eyed best man when i need him? Jody!!!!

Read more about the Eyeborg project and the intriguingly named Rob Spence.

A Little Bit of GTD Tech For The Weekend?

Over on All About Symbian, I’ve posted an article that talks about how I use GTD with the modern S60 smartphone. This was a question I was asked thanks to the 5800 video diary series that is now addressed in a full article.
The short answer is, I don’t. The S60 derived phones have an absolutely [...]

Akoha and Fighting For The Personal Touch Online

Have we lost the Human factor online (and no I’m not talking about the Evil of the Daleks, but if anyone in Zimbabwe would care to look for the tapes…)? Two discrete data points today and an experience from my time in the US leads me to think that the next big change online could [...]

Pavlovian Formula 1 and Hollywood Monsters

9am on a Sunday and the bass-line of The Chain wakes every F1 fan up and drags them into the spare room to watch the Malaysian Grand Prix (thanks to Scooby Doo commandeering the main TV in the house), and had a wonderful thought.
The cgi-based graphics running during the BBC theme are far in advanced [...]

Brilliant Fact For The Day

Monaco has got a bigger land mass than Russia if you include the whole of Monaco down to the centre of the Earth but only count the top 8 inches of Russian soil.

Found in the comments thread at Political Betting. Almost a good a phrase as Paul Carr’s “We should go there… it smells of [...]

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