OK after an exceptionally dull (can these things be exciting?) election campaign its time to stand up and be counted.

If you don't know who you are voting for the good old Beeb provides a quick way to make up your mind ( Read more... )

Time to Flee!

Who's fancies going for a drink Thursday evening ? Black Bull, Leith Street from about 7.

Phil, I'm looking at you !

You too Sleaze !

Eleven people falsely accused (that is, convicted with fabricated police evidence) of IRA bombings are seeking an apology from the Government for having their lives messed up.

Hopefully there will be formal apologies to the 23 others who have also been set up in similar ways and later released.

Since it is so clearly possible for the open court ( Read more... )

First draft of the anti-smoking bill has been published here.
Looks like it may actually have teeth, excellent.

This is about the American education system but I recognise many of the issues raised as faults in UK schooling too.

If the leader of the country who had invaded 2 countries in the last 4 years, had a larger military budget then the rest of the world put together and is the one country in the world to use nuclear weapons on civilian targets started saying this sort of stuff about your country wouldn't you start building up your country's WMD stocks ? I know I

Well the company has finally moved out of KB. Surprisingly we've not ended up in Livingston but in the very centre of town, just off Princes Street. Oddly we are paying less for rent here then in the Custom build middle of now-where offices the Scottish Enterprise built and after 3 years have yet to fill. Not surprising when you can rent space in ( Read more... )

No. 58: Go surfing in California... Tick.

:)

Anyone fancy a go at this?

Need a team of 3 and there are 17 weeks to get into shape for it...

Could be a good target for anyone else like me who is fighting a losing battle to maintain some sort of fitness while spending most of my time driving a desk.