Caution : Optimism ahead

by | Apr 28, 2009 | Technology, zeitgeist

It’s good to be optimistic. And I love people with great drive and belief. But there is, unfortunately, a limit on how far a wave of optimism can take you up the beach before sucking you back into the shark-infested depths.My problem, as has often been pointed...

Knicky Knicky Nine Doors

by | Apr 7, 2009 | zeitgeist

I was awoken at 1am by my doorbell. Except that it wasn’t my doorbell. It was one the noises my doorbell can make, just not the usual one. I’ve seen this before, you can make my doorbell go off with the remote for the car. Such is the way with wireless...

Rallying Cry

by | Mar 24, 2009 | zeitgeist

Not long now until the next mad dash across Europe in a banger. At the end of May, I will be doing another charity car run (along with the others members of the team). It has suddenly got very close.We were very aware on the last run that people donated money in the...

14th August 1987

by | Mar 16, 2009 | Photography, zeitgeist

It is entirely self-evident that the 14th August 1987 is getting on for nearly 22 years ago. And, it is certainly no great surprise to get pulled up short by the recurring realisation that things that feel like yesterday are actually a quarter of a century...

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...

Mumbai Days

by | Jan 13, 2009 | zeitgeist

I found this lying on a backup drive recently. Long since forgetten. But, with the end of the Bush era approaching and dark recent days in Mumbai, I thought it appropriate to post it. It tells the brief tale of a week in Mumbai when I met one of the richest men in the...