Archive for January, 2006

More Meme Madness – iTunes

There seems to be a bit of a meme explosion at the moment. The Four Things one has been popping up all over the place. My guess is that bloggers the world over are having a quiet January and as such have bugger-all to write about. That’s what I’m doing, so taking Gordon’s lead, here’s [...]

January 29, 2006   Posted in: Meme, Music  Comments Closed

New Links

Some new links for today:
First up, Our Scotland, a new forum to talk about Scottish politics. I’ve not had a chance to have a proper look around yet, but the link is on my sidebar (under links, not Blogroll).
Next a couple of new blogs for the blogroll….
Katia’s Random Ramblings and Blue in the Corner.
Go [...]

January 24, 2006   Posted in: Blogging, Linkage, Politics  Comments Closed

Edinburgh Blogmeet

Yay. The boy’s done good. Gordon (also webmaster of ScottishBlogs and social convener to the Scottish Blogosphere!) has arranged another blogmeet, this time back in Edinburgh. The last Edinburgh one was ‘before my time’, but the last one in Glasgow was a very good evening – a chance to meet up with a random bunch [...]

January 24, 2006   Posted in: Blogging, Blogmeet, Edinburgh  Comments Closed

Tagged

I’m still picking up on blog etiquette and some of the seemingly complicated and arcane practices that go one. One of these areas I’m learning more about is the whole issue of meme/tagging.
I’ve been tagged! This time by Katherine.
I think I just do a cut/paste/edit job… so here goes:
Four jobs you have had in your [...]

January 16, 2006   Posted in: Blogging, Meme, Personal  Comments Closed

Response to Delurking Comments.

Wow… that was quite a response! I guess I have more readers than I thought!
In order….
Croila: Thank you very much! I really like the look of your site too – so I take your compliment particularly well. I have gone through a few incarnations, and I think I will settle with this one for a [...]

January 16, 2006   Posted in: Blogmeet, Personal  Comments Closed

Delurking….

It seems to be the season for taking stock so, in line with the fashion of the moment on several other blogs… I’d like to invite people to de-lurk and say hello in the comments.
Judging by the number of commenters/regular comments, I think I have about 6 regular readers and a scattering of passing trade. [...]

January 13, 2006   Posted in: Blogging, Personal  Comments Closed

Blonde Joke

Reynolds has stumbled upon the funniest blonde joke ever.

January 11, 2006   Posted in: Wibble  Comments Closed

Telly Times

I’ve just had a call from the producer of Talking Scotland at STV. I know have in my posession the schedule times for the Talking Scotland slot I did.
After (some) internal debate, I have decided to tell you (after all… how bad can it be…?).
The short slot will be on next week on the following [...]

January 11, 2006   Posted in: Volunteering, Wibble, Work  Comments Closed