Something to go back to when feeling uninspired: http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/2009/archives/2994 – Chris Orwig guest blogging at Scott Kelby’s site.

iStock gold! Painful to get to 10000 this month, but not going to join the IS whinefest. I’ll ride it out (or quit). Whining is just silly.

It’s the end of January.  Why is the heather blooming?
I was out at the Necropolis this morning and thought I might find some snowdrops, or maybe some very early crocus.  Heather in bloom…that seems a bit broken.  Pretty, but broken.

Because I’m going to try Windows7 on my Photoshop/video-editing machine I thought I’d go down to the library and take a look at whatever they might have on Vista (since Win7 is based on Vista).  There’s an O’Reilly book called Windows Vista Administration: The Definitive Guide by Brian Culp.  There are many clues in the [...]

O’Reilly do better computer books than most but Win Vista Admin Definitive Guide really brings the average down. One of their worst ever?

The twitter-to-blog connection should now be working. If you can’t read this outside Twitter then you know it isn’t

One of the nicest things about Christmas day is that you can have the entirity of Loch Lomond to yourself! Add a bit of mist and a mill-pond reflection and it’s not the worst place in the world.

The Girdle Stanes are just a spit away from the Loupin Stanes in my last post. Twenty-some stones in a semi-circle. They used to be forty-some stones in a circle, but the river flowing through the middle of the circle might give a clue as to the whereabouts of the other half!

Christmas Eve I went down to the Loupin Stanes – a stone circle in the Borders – and took a few pictures in the mist.