Just back from my high school reunion in Glasgow last night - as usual, not great food, but good company (sitting between Gareth, an old acquaintance who is now a jeweler, and Mike Thomson, Finance Project Manager at DC Thomson).

The guest speaker was "Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton", a former Cabinet member. Probably the most ( Read more... )

My little brother Ed graduates from Dundee University next week - the third generation of my family to do so, despite Dundee University only having been a university for 40 years, so the Courier ran an article on the subject today.


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You Are An INTP
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Disturbingly, almost every single so-called "Superdrive" (the same rebadged Matshita drives you'd get from any no-name box-shifter, but with a bigger marketing budget) I know of has failed, including my own. However, since mine is still under warranty (until the end of this month) and we now have an Apple Store just an hour away, I thought I'd take ( Read more... )

Last week seemed to be full of dead or ailing Macs of varying vintage: Mat's four year old Powerbook with a dying HDD, Toby/Kate's Powerbook with an intermitten screen fault and my own 11 month old MacBook Pro with a Superdrive which had mysteriously degenerated to work only as a CD ROM drive, rejecting DVDs entirely and refusing to burn CD-Rs ( Read more... )

For some reason, I woke up an hour early this morning. Lucky, since I'd forgotten to put my laundry in the dryer last night ( Read more... )