Edinburgh as a Tourist

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When my BF comes up tomorrow, we’re going to do some nice touristy things. I’ve lived in Edinburgh now for nearly 6 years, so I pretty much know it inside out (unlike the monster that is London, Edinburgh is quite compact and walkable).
What I’ve done is picked out a couple of new outdoor [...]

Pension Plans

I’ve never thought about joining a pension plan, or think in any way, shape or form about my retirement (well, other than wanting to retire at 40 - though not sure as it’s only 6 years away! Might be too early after all ).
However, my current employer apparently has a really good pension. It’s [...]

Austrian Incest Rapist Josef Fritzl

Abominable is the case of one Josef Fritzl, who locked his daugher in a cellar for 24 years and fucked her till she was raw and sore and had borne him 7 children.
He had been raping and fucking his daughter since she was eleven.
He then locked her in a cellar at 18, to rape her [...]

WordPress at Web 2.0 Expo

WordPress have announced a new feature that suggests posts (from your own blog or the blogosphere) based on what it thinks is related to whatever it is you’re blogging about. Sounds like a semantic app.
At the web 2.0 expo they also announced the upcoming Monotone - theme, which is basically a photo-blog template. It looks [...]

Strike in Grangemouth = No Scotland Trip

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I had planned to drive somewhere e.g. Falkirk Wheel, and do some touristy things when my BF visits me next week-end.
However, due to the Grangemouth Strike this looks unlikely. At least Edinburgh is so beautiful that you can easily fill touristy days, without even spending all that much (it’s got so much free [...]

Wee Neighbour Boy R. Moved Today

Today, my wee neighbour R. moved with his family to a new house, more or less down the road (a few streets away).
Apparently it happened late morning/early afternoon. The man with the dogs (nosey, always walks his dogs ‘coincidentally’ when things are happening on the estate) told me all about it as I got [...]

What’s Up With Gmail?

Lately, all new WordPress comments that need approval have been ending up in my spam filter. Also, gmail chat has reappeared on the left handside, even though I set it to not be there
Looking at the top right corner, I can see a link has appeared to ‘older version’ - and when you [...]

BBC iPlayer Icon is Skype in Pink

I’ve just started using BBC iPlayer, more info on that some other time. Just an observation that their wee icon looks just like the Skype one - only it’s pink

Sweatshops are Evil - Buy in Charity Shops

Tonight I watched a programme on BBC3, where young adults go to India to work in a sweatshop, so they understand where their clothes are coming from. It’s called Blood, Sweat and T-shirts.
Very good actually, and reminded me that I need to buy more clothes in charity shops. The problem is that I’m currently short [...]

Adventures in Chav-land

In London this week-end my chav friend J. (22) told me that his next tattoo will read:
White and Proud
I asked him why, and which whites are included in this pride thing:

English? Yes
German? Yes
Polish? Noooooooooooooo
Hungarian? Yes

This doesn’t make sense on two counts:

Polish people ARE white
How can you be proud of the colour of your skin?

I told [...]