I made it along to my Business Mastermind group meeting last week, and it was a good one. Last minute change of venue from the Thistle Hotel to a little place called Café Renroc on Montgomery Street. At first it was distracting to be in a room full of folk having lunch, but it got quieter and we could all discuss progress.

Jill brought in her ( Read more... )

It can be a sobering reality check
or a warm journey back in time
either way it is a journey worth taking
old friends act as measuring sticks
they strip away the trimmings and heavy layers of your life
they are mirrors to your soul

Also, apparently Robert Louis Stevenson said - 'A friend is a present you give yourself'.

Okay then, I'm going to pick a few ( Read more... )

I was thinking of posting another page from my Be Happy book, but Kirsten is using it right now as a mouse pad to play Bejewelled Blitz. So I guess by default it's random update time instead ( Read more... )

Went to see VNV Nation last night at the Classic Grand. Kirsten didn't see a lot of them at Infest so was keen to see them properly, and reckons they're up there with Motley Crue* in terms of enjoyment LOL. It was an excellent gig, 2 hours along with the usual banter from Ronan. Oh and there was a marriage proposal. When Ronan got wind of it he ( Read more... )

It's nice to have a pet cat with you while you're working. That would be Kirsten's cat, Jazz. She turned 18 years old this month. I could do without her snoring and farting though. Yes, I'm over at Kirsten's today, sitting on a comfy sofa and getting some work done. Her parents popped by earlier to do some work in the garden, and I had lunch with ( Read more... )

Haven't posted here in a while, so here's a share from my deviantArt account.

I was getting a lot of interest in my high dynamic range (HDR) photo experiments on facebook, so I decided to get the top three printed.

For a while I wasn't convinced that they'd look good printed because the tone mapping process, while it enhances detail, can introduce ( Read more... )

Sometimes we have to be single-minded.
It's the only way to achieve some goals.
We have to draw on
all our energy,
all our skills,
all our determination.
When we do, there's very little we can't accomplish.

Okay, fine. For work, I'm going to channel my energy into completing a website project by tomorrow afternoon. I will let nothing distract me from ( Read more... )

I picked up a little book last Saturday.

I was in the new Dobbies Garden Centre in Livingston with Little D and my parents, waiting for the rain to stop so that we could go up Cairnpapple Hill for the 'Bronze Age Life' event*. I was looking through the childrens books for a while then moved along to the next shelf and spotted this book called 'Be ( Read more... )

My Daily Routine seems to be working. I've been finding more time to relax and sort out my flat a little. There's only be a couple of nights since february where I've been working late into the night. Staying over at Kirstens nearly every other night helps the routine somewhat too ( Read more... )

Sort of worked out. Got up early, had shower, breakfast, worked, lunch, worked some more, got distracted by my mortgage adviser and chat with Gav and Kim on MSN. Oops. Well, nevertheless I did get a decent chunk of work done.

Tasks completed are shown scored out. Made some progress on benchmarking but not as far as testing the queries. Everything ( Read more... )