Archive for November, 2002

Scotlands Day, St. Andrews Day

Saturday, November 30th, 2002

How many people know that today, 30th November is St. Andrews day. Saint Andrew is the Patron Saint of Scotland. It is not really celebrated much, although it should be. Here is more info on the day and St. Andrew. There are plans to have it as a national holiday, a holiday is always a good idea in my book.
New stuff on the page is Customized Errors, yes that’s right no more boring 404, 403 ect errors I have my own errors, and will add more as I get a chance. Take a look at em’ errors not much else, apart from that. Oh wait I will be developing the photo log so check that soon, got some odd photos in Leith to add, also I will put a new logo up soon. Right time for my haggis

Them are here, The re-touched Canadian and USA Photos

Thursday, November 21st, 2002

I have rescanned all the old Canadian (Winnipeg, Toronto and Niagra) and USA (Chicago & Wisconsin) photos. I felt that I had to do this because the originals were scanned ages and ages ago, hence they were low quality. Now they are the usual 800×600 (ish). Right, I know its not that great but I scanned them much higher, but its due to space on the sever that they are that resolution. If you want a copy of a better resolution mail me and I’ll send you one, that goes for most f the photos on the page, just give credit if possible. Click here to see ‘em

I want to make this page a tad more colorful … lets see what we can do, maybe a new logo!!!! :)
also … Sunday (or is it Saturday) Scotland Play game 3 of 3 in the Rugby Spring tests, this time Fiji.

Touch Up some photos,

Wednesday, November 20th, 2002

As you know, there are photos on this page. … nawwww get away? I hear you say, no really there is.
anyway the Older ones from about 1994, that’s the Canadian / USA photos were scanned at a lower resolution, So I decided to scan them in again … at a glorious higher resolution, so watch this space, or this space, Canadian / USA photos Only one problem, I cant find some of them, … but I did find ones I lost first time around ;)

Springboks For Dinner.

Saturday, November 16th, 2002

Bwahhahahahaha, Scotland 21 - South Africa 6
I can’t decide If Scotland Played Well, Or South Africa Played bad .. Maybe both But It matters Not, Scotland Won. :) First time in somewhat 33 years. One thing I saw in the crowd was a South Africa fan, he had a banner that was a parody of the master card adds, It had the Flight, Hotel, Rugby Shirt .. .Ect for so much Rand, it ended in “Kicking Ass ….. Priceless” well, Kicking ass was priceless. Naww, but It was a good game and the South Africa fans are pretty neat.
Next Week Scotland play Fiji Go Scotland, and South Africa Play England Go South Africa!!! :) …. Later……

Tis Rugby TIme!!!!! week 2

Friday, November 15th, 2002

Tis Rugby TIme!!!!! week 2
Last Week Scotland Thumped Romania 37-10, aye ok it was a crap game and we could have done much much better. However we can make it better. I hope!!. So Tomorrow is the big challenge. Scotland V South Africa. We gotta win. Quote from the sarugby.net web page “the two teams are tied 6-6 in their 12 meetings since 1906, the last Scottish victory was 6-3 in 1969″ So Its about time for a win. Come On Scotland!!!!. Another Quote from sarugby.net web page “Scotland beware. South Africa has a lot to prove when the two meet in a test at Murrayfield on Saturday. ” Grrrrr Scotland Gonna kick some ass!!! (I hope, I know we are crap, but we are due a guid win” :) go see http://www.sru.org.uk/ Come On Scotland!!!!! we have the Home advantage!!!! One Thing … “Scotland beware!! aye, we are nae scared mate. :)”

C-c-c-c-changes, C-c-c-c-changes.

Friday, November 8th, 2002

Hey Look, Its a wee bity deferent, yeahhhh. All the photos can be accessed via this front page now. I decided to remove the pesky Flash buttons as there were to many and updating the Photo Pages was a right pain in the butt!!! you would have to change every page not just one. so five+ updates for one(Guess I am just toooo Lazyyyy)
Anyhoo there are now a ton of new photos uploaded of around Edinburgh. In total there are 162 Edinburgh Photos. so with the other photos from Stirling, Canada (Toronto and Winnipeg), USA (Wisconsin and Chicago). That’s around 288 photos in total.

This weekend starts a few Autumn tests for the Scottish Rugby Union. Against Romania, South Africa and Fiji. Could be interesting, Hopefully the SRU can get back to its winning ways for the six nations.

Working with computers may be dangerous

Monday, November 4th, 2002

While browsing I found a odd news story, looks at this, …. its nuts
“A computer expert was attacked with an axe by a man who suspected him of hacking into his machine”, you can read the whole news story from BBC Scotland

Just maybe, just maybe techs should get danger money :)

The trouble with cable modems.

Saturday, November 2nd, 2002

Arghhhhh, over the past few months my cable modem connection has been up and down, up and down. Its a pain in the butt. I have had a tech out who said there is nothing wrong with the connection; modem; set up. Seemingly its a problem with the Local UBR so just reboot the modem when Its down. Not ideal solution but it seems to work just fine. Still I could never go back to a 56k connection. but on saying that I remember when i was happy with a 2400bps modem. ahhh them were the days.

I need some tips to promote this page, get some more traffic here. If anyone has any ideas …. :)
I will try my hand at another flash cartoon, lets see what I can doooooooo.