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www.fathers-4-justice.org

I’m sitting watching the Channel 4 News and it appears that Batman is currently protesting for Fathers 4 Justice on Buckingham Palace. He has a sign advertising their website. So I had a look. It’s quite a good website, although I’m sure it doesn’t conform to accessibility guidelines for websites, which is […]

Good news: Jane isn’t a witch. I had a conversation with her last night, which went a bit like this:
Me: I hope it’s going to be nice tomorrow.
Jane: It’s going to rain heavily.
Me: Really?!
Jane: Yeah.
Me: I hope you’re wrong, cos otherwise I’ll have to burn you at the stake as a witch.
Thankfully it’s a […]

The new Megadeth album “The System Has Failed” is released tomorrow (Monday 13 September). You can currently hear it streamed from VH1.com with Windows Media Player. It is VERY Megadeth. Welcome back Dave!

I like Ellesse trainers; I have two pairs. Both navy and white. That’s the way I like them. Besides, they are comfortable, supportive and they fit. But can I find somewhere that sells them now?! (Clue: the answer is no.) Hrmph! Bah.

I’ve started to learn CSS-2 (Cascading Style Sheets) in more depth, with a view to updating this website, as well as the exNYCgb and NYCgb ones that I’m also working on. I’ve been using CSS for a couple of years now to control how text looks, but this is my first venture into using […]

This morning I visited a new guitar store in Corstorphine: www.guitarguitar.co.uk/.
It is a fantastic store — the best guitar store in Edinburgh, in my opinion with a fantastic range of instruments: electric guitars, basses, acoustics, mandolins, banjos, and an arsenal of effects and amps. It’s enought to make me want to play my guitar […]

For the next four days I shall be away at the Scottish Episcopal Church Provincial Conference “Five and Two”, being held this year at Heriot Watt University, approximately 5 miles from home.
The conference is based around the story in Mark 6: 31-44 of the Feeding of the Five Thousand, with “Five and Two” referring to […]