My name is Scott McFarlane Liddell. ( why McFarlane? read this ).

By some freak I was born in Manchester but have lived in either or Edinburgh or Glasgow since I was wee. I live in Edinburgh with my wife and family.

For the last 5 years I’ve worked in Livingston. I recently completed Resident Evil 5. No connection.

To Get Paid

Many years ago I graduated with a degree in Electronic and Microcomputer Engineering from Glasgow University.
Since then I have worked in IT. You can get more details on what I do/have done on LinkedIn.

This is what someone else wrote to describe me professionally:

Senior Level Technical Manager with strong commercial, contractual and project management experience to Board level, pre- and post-sales, handling £Mm contracts. Direct experience of leading both service delivery, design and development teams. Extensive experience of a wide-range of consulting, architecture, design and delivery roles.

I prefer to go with a more generic “I do computers and stuff“. This means I can often be helpful with most IT issues and am always happy to help (time allowing).

To Have Fun

Writing

You can find out about my first novel, The Beatle Man, here.

I’m working, very slowly, on a few other writing projects. But generally life gets in the way a lot. You will get the occasional burbling on this site too.

Photography

I am a very keen photographer, some galleries of my photos can be seen on scottliddell.net.

Also, many of my images can be downloaded for free from my galleries on morguefile.com and sxc.hu.

I created The Photo Project to try and raise money for charities from photography.

Puzzles

I’ve worked with my good friend Manic MorFF to create the very popular puzzle website Bimbogami. It’s free and a lot of fun, give it a go.

Other web stuff

Many years ago I got bored refreshing football scores on the web and, from that, LazyWebTools was born. It remains very popular.

I also wrote CheckMyRequest ages ago, but that is spectacularly less popular. Although I thought it was funny.

I have absolutely nothing to do with this Project Management website.

In recent years I have twice crossed Europe in a car that cost £250. You can read about those particular adventures here.

Other stuff

I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

I once sold George Takei 3 postcards.

I can often be found eating the big chips in the Scottish Malt Whisky Society.

I once maxed out the score on the scoreboard on the Monaco GP arcade game.

I have eaten a cheese toastie in the board room of the largest private company in India. It was nice.

I own a ZX81.

I’m a typophile. I have a favourite font.

Not the Greek-English Lexicon

You may have arrived here looking for the Liddell and Scott Greek-English lexicon. As you may have noticed, I am not said book. You can find more info and links to various resources about the lexicon here.