Man O’ Chanter

by | Mar 10, 2009 | zeitgeist

It is not very often that my drive to work inspires a blog post. And it was the general loveliness of a Colin Baxter style morning either. It was an odd moment at the lights at Barnton.On days when I am without the entertaining chat of @stuartamdouglas, I often avoid...

Blu-Ray Review : The Fall

by | Feb 23, 2009 | Blu-Ray Review

Buying a film solely on the basis of being promised stunning visuals is perhaps not always the best of approaches. But since that is what Blu-Ray & HD is all about, I didn’t hesitate in pre-ordering The Fall [Blu-ray] [2008].You can tell that, at its...

Personal Google Brand Measures

by | Feb 17, 2009 | Technology

Let’s get one thing clear from the start. I am not a Greek English Lexicon. Although, judging from my web logs and analytics, many accidentally think I am.The fact that I share a name (at least in search index terms) with a book, led me to consider how much...

Photography Book Reviews

by | Feb 5, 2009 | Photography

Over the years, I’ve started to become an avid collector of photography books. I love bookshops and the photo book section is always where I head first. Thing is, most books are mainly available online and a photo book isn’t something that is easy to size...

Finding Google’s Backwaters

by | Feb 2, 2009 | Technology

There are so many ways to get to the good stuff on the Internet. Lists, StumbleUpon, optimised search returns etc but there is a truly enormous long-tail of weird/wonderful/dross.I thought it might be amusing to see some of this randomly, ignoring any notion of...