June 2009
6 posts
Dinosaurs
Showed my 2 year old son a picture of a dinosaur and he said ‘peacock’. Either he’s really clever and subscribes to the bird/dinosaur evolution theory or he just got mixed up. I suspect the former. Proud dad.
My version of the Cisco Jingle.
Is this the greatest website in the world? →
not really - but it’s my own webpage. Soon to become www.scottcrussell.co.uk.
my first garageband recording - timings all over...
Glasgow "The Day" →
I love this blog - it’s run by a mate of mine, but it really captures a Glasgow that lots of people don’t appreciate. Glasgow is easily one of, if not the best, city in the UK - I’ve traveled around a fair and Glasgow remains one of my favourites. It has so much character, lovely buildings and genuine people. If you’ve never been - check it out. If you have - go again....
April 2009
2 posts
Birds, ducks, bees and Calum
1 tag
March 2009
5 posts
Brown Eyed Girl live from Portpatrick.
Metallica. Sad But True.. Glasgow. May be a bit...
Relentless Pessimism - Enough!
I’ve had it with the relentless pessimism that we’re bombarded with now every single day.
So - ok - bad news sells papers, and when things are bad enough for print media anyway, the more bad news they can churn out - the better it is for sales. Read this quote from the Daily Mail:
“The name of this spectre is the fearful question – is Britain going bankrupt? More pertinently,...
My Twitter Mosaic...
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Faster Broadband is Go... →
At last.
I’m really struggling with my broadband at home. I don’t live in a city - but I don’t live in the sticks either. Most nights I’m bumbling along with around 300kbs and a 100:1 contention ratio. Access to high speed broadband is becoming a major differentiator in deciding whether to move to an area. In the not too distant future, a home without a high speed...
February 2009
10 posts
Tonight’s pub ambience, live music from La...
Twitter and the Event Browser for the Human...
I’m an avid Twitter user, or, as I like to describe it, “Twit”. Twitter uptake in the UK has grown >900% in the last year, driven mainly by celebrity endorsements such as Stephen Fry @stephenfry. If you don’t know who he is - look him up. Unlike many celeb Twits, he does it himself. It’s not PR. It’s personal. Sometimes he’s simply describing a walk...
An Incredible Knight Quantum Hobo Team Rider
Just realised today - the Littlest Hobo, Quantum Leap, Incredible Hulk, Knight Rider and the A-Team are all basically the same programme.
Pillars of my youth, I learned about helping people in need and being a good citizen through these programmes. But they’re all the same. Some random stranger (dog) comes into town or using some time-travel plot device, enters someones body. Something...
Argh - "Broadband Britain"
Really - this is driving me nuts. Trying to watch some stuff on the iPlayer and I’m lucky if I get about 10 seconds in before it buffers. Turns out with a quick speed test I’m getting somewhere on average between 300Kbs and 600Kbs bandwidth. I mean - seriously - what is going on? It’s not as though I live in the middle of the highlands, I’m about a mile from the...
“Is an orange called an orange because it’s the colour orange or is the...”
– Me
PR and Marketing Bods? Meet your nemesis -... →
Ok - so it’s about snow. We’re completely hung up on the weather here in Britain, mainly because most of the time it’s not that great. 90% of the time the weather in Britain is just dull. We don’t get typhoons - we don’t get tsunamis - we don’t get dangerously sweltering and prolonged heat waves. We tend to get rain, you know, the little stuff - the kind...
BBC iPlayer - Top Gear: Series 12: Episode 8 →
Top Gear - the best programme on telly in the UK, nay, the world. These guys have simply the greatest job imaginable. Messing about all over the world for our entertainment, sticking a big two fingers up to political correctness and all gladly paid for by our license fee. Love it.
January 2009
4 posts
My local pub ambience
1 tag
You know what...
See - Twitter is great, but there’s a few simple rules that make someone a decent twit.
retweet if you like a tweet. Mega-twits seem to be worried about sending followers to someone if they do this.
don’t use twitter as a way to simply drive traffic to your blog.
post personal updates - you do more than work (I hope)
reply publicly - direct messages again hide people
most twits...