Archive for December, 2002

Derby Day In Edinburgh

Friday, December 27th, 2002

Hope you all had a very merry Christmas, mine was pretty good, lots of good food and good beer. :)
anyway Its nearly Hogmanay and we all know that is big stuff in Scotland, But today I went out to but tickets for the Edinburgh Derby SPL footbal game. Hearts V Hibs Well I never really made it be known who I support, ;) just guess

hmfc V hfc

This may be the last post of the year, maybe .. . . . . but then again maybe not.
“all the best for 2003!!!! ;)”
BTW: I have a story, well this will be funny in some time to come, I hope. (just now its Upsetting) It is About a certain train company within UK. I will leave it pretty vague at the moment, But I will say more soon.

Its Nearly Christmas Time

Wednesday, December 18th, 2002

It’s the 18th December and buy the time this is up, possibly the 19th because you know I can be slow at this. :)
Well I managed to snap some photos around Edinburgh @ Christmas time there are 20 photos. These are photos of the winter festival; witch indecently is run by the same person who runs the Gilded Balloon. Small world eh! Or small toon. Also there are some photos of that big tree on the mound, the one that I believe is donated from Denmark, If I am wrong I am sure that some one will correct me, also the German market that is back evrey December Have a look here

Here is a link to southbridge.org.uk this is an unofficial competition site for architects, design students and the public to suggest ways to re-build south bridge after the devastating fire that struck old town. Interesting, or will be. … . . . .
Before I forget … the Celtic team got BUSTED hehe!!

Photo log update / Missed #13

Saturday, December 14th, 2002

Well there was another Friday 13th, It passed without anything bad happening ……
Anyway I have updated the photo log, at long last click here silly and see somewhat compelling photos, maybe. Please mail me and tell me what you think, I need all the criticism I can get, good and bad.
But I feel I have to give you something to come here, well maybe I will stick up some MP3s soon but for now here is a link to a Photoshop page, really good tutorials here it is

I may try some new colours in the boxes here, back ground and text, need to make this page appealing to the eyes. How is blue?

Euro 2008 … Not so close

Thursday, December 12th, 2002

Well, it looks like Scotland and Irelands bid to host the European Championship tournament was fourth out of Seven. That was a big gap. So the honour goes to Austria-Switzerland. And good luck to Austria and Switzerland I am sure they can host a Great Final. I guess Scotland will just have to settle on winning the whole thing. :) . .. . .Wishful thinking aside. I think our downfall was a joint bit, Scotland could and should have went at it alone, cos we could hae done it. ken whit I mean like. we can always host 2012 Euro championship … I would settlewith a World Cup win. …. :) Scotland “World Champs” aye that would rock.

Euro2008
“Scotland Will have to settle on winning Euro 2008, not just hosting it “

Sad :(

Tuesday, December 10th, 2002

Over the weekend, Starting on Saturday 7th late evening there was a fire in Edinburgh. The fire affected The Cowgate, South Bridge, Blair Street and Guthrie Street. Along with this other streets were closed. Unfortunately buildings with Historic and sentimental value were totally destroyed.

Edinburgh University School Of Informatics, old buildings on the South Bridge and the Guilded Balloon on the Cowgate were among many destroyed. These buildings will now be demolished, due to safety reasons. I have fond memories of this area, probably mostly of the Guilded Balloon

That area of the old town will now look like a smile with missing teeth, sure the buildings will be replaced …. but the ain’t the same. Sad time in Edinburgh Just now :(
Here are links to news sites BBC / Scotsman / CNN It may even have been worse, read this(scotsman)

Haggis Hunting Season

Sunday, December 8th, 2002

Its time to hunt the elusive haggis, yes its that time of year, from the Scotsman “From St Andrew’s Day to Burns Night it’s open season on one of Scotland’s most elusive beasties” If you can pin down a Haggis you can win a prize have a look at Haggishunt.com take a look, its all good fun. But what is a Haggis? its a wee beastie here is more information at the haggis facts page

There is something not quite right with my page, cant put my finger on it really. Something is missing, maybe I should redesign it, maybe not; just change a few things perhaps. I will get more in to this later, as for my downtime this may be fixed. As I got a nice new shiny cable modem so lets hope I am back at

Downtime Strikes Back

Thursday, December 5th, 2002

Well my cable modem went down again this week, for that seems the ten billionth time all right maybe I am over exaggerate there but It has been down a lot. I done a new logo that I was always gonna do, but was to lazy to do. What you think? I also added a stats icon to this page so I can see who visits here, take a look its at the bottom of the page. Also I have been trying my hand at CGI scripts, but without much success . .. .But watch this space. :)