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My moblog (pics taken with my P800 and P900 cameraphones). | ||
 December 30 large Making Bread I rocked home today to see my parents. Dad gave me a bread making lesson, and here's the mighty result. De la! |  December 28 large Less Complaining! Blogging Deek complaining about my lack of recent blogging. |  December 28 large X-Box Trial I've taken the plunge and picked up an X-Box and Project Gotham Racing 2. I have some *serious* reservations about inviting the beast of Redmond into my living room, but I have a 10 day return. If you have PGR2 and want an online game, let me know! |
 December 24 large Christmas Cheese A queue (half hidden by the van) for expensive cheese. |  December 24 large Goodbye Payphone Your time has come! |  December 22 large Cool Card I got this card from a local Nepalese restaurant (great food, well recommended). Didn't realise I had eaten there quite so often! ;-) |
 December 21 large Edinburgh -- On The X-Box Project Gotham Racing on the X-Box, looking at the castle. I may need one of these, I think! |  December 21 large Better Snow Pic The previous photo looked much better on my phone. You really can see the snow in this one. |  December 21 large Snow First snowfall in Edinburgh for winter 2003. |
 December 19 large New Do Feels good! |  December 16 large Clapham I *am* the man on the Clapham Omnibus. Need an opinion? |  December 16 large Trafalgar Square Christmas tree with real carol singers! |
 December 16 large Sunset Already had birthday lunch with Al, visited the Saatchi Gallery and walked miles. Now off to the Turner exhibition at Tate Britain. |  December 15 large Mobi Mr Whipcracker (AKA Jim Hughes) |  December 15 large Tower Bridge Mobi meet at Pommelers Rest. |
 December 15 large Lunchtime Pub Wooops. Too many beers at lunchtime. Afternoon is going to be a lot of fun. This is holiday! |  December 14 large Blue Trees Some cool blue trees on the South Bank. Thankfully these ones didn't shoot water mist like most of the others (weird concept -- soak you when it is really cold weather, and encourage pavement icing). |  December 14 large Big Ben With tree and wheel. |
 December 13 large Food Gourmet Burgers with Karen, Eric, Jeff & Steph. |  December 13 large St Pauls and Millenium Bridge Taken from the Tate Modern Private Guests Lounge, dahling. |  December 13 large Floorseat Everyone relaxing on the floor in the Turbine Hall. |
 December 13 large Tate Modern Can you see Allan and I? |  December 13 large Lights |  December 13 large Mooks Shopping with Allan. This photo is for Jams. |
 December 12 large London I am here, and it is blooming raining! |  December 10 large Shepherds Warning Cool morning sky! |  December 9 large Tree1.0 Thanks to some thread-based assistance from Neil & Ker, Tree1.0 was successfully moved into the production environment on time and on budget. Thanks to the whole team for all their hard work and dedication. Opening hours for viewing the installation change daily. Bring alcohol to ensure entry. |
 December 8 large Tree Release 0.9 Here's my Christmas tree sans baubles. I don't have any thread, so it will be tomorrow before version 1 comes online. |  December 6 large 5.1 Jams verifies his 1995 Nokia 5.1 encourages London tabloid readership. |  December 5 large Nutritious Delicious That was a very tasty Friday dinner. Definitely time for a beer now! |
 December 5 large Haircut Required I've kind of let my hair grow longer than it has been for years. Now I need it cut, but not just shaved like I normally get. Any suggestions? |  December 4 large WHEEL The big wheel has arrived in Edinburgh as part of the Christmas celebrations. It escapes me which part of the Christmas story involved a big wheel right now.. |  December 4 large Beautiful Day It has been a lovely day here. The sky is putting on a lovely closing show, right in front of me. |
 December 3 large Phones In The Camera Shop At lunchtime I went to Jessops (a pretty big UK camera store chain) to look at digital cameras with Sandy. Slap bang in the middle of the cabinet were two cameraphones! It would be amusing if, in five years time, it was the other way round, with the store selling all kinds of phones, and a few dedicated cameras. |  December 1 large Foliage I have been looking for some plants to go in the hall for a while. Tonight in Safeway as I was getting food for tea I saw this guy. It was a bargain 2.50, so I got two. P.S. Like the new mirror, too? |  November 28 large Weird G Is this the weirdest pint of Guinness you've ever seen? |
 November 28 large Christmas Lights I missed the big Edinburgh Christmas lights switch-on last night, so here is Mahyad turning his on. |  November 27 large Tynecastle Watching Hearts play Bordeaux. Should be fun. |  November 25 large Parking Extension The council are trying to increase the area that requires a permit to park in. Residents are fighting back. |
 November 23 large Ropelight I've been doing a few tasks around my house today (see later posting for full details). I finally put my blue ropelight into some kind of position and it looks pretty cool, although maybe not bright enough. |  November 22 large $ausages I visited I. J. Mellis to check the shop out and to buy some sausages. These Italian sausages looked good. Let's hope they are worth *every* penny they cost! Review soon. |  November 18 large Say Cheese Purveyor of all things cheese and provision oriented, I. J. Mellis has taken a shop just across from my flat. Double handy! |
 November 16 large North Bridge Post Finding Nemo drinks with Ker & Neil at North Bridge. |  November 15 large Smiling Max does smiles. :-) |  November 13 large Pipe Boxing Today dad & I have been BUSY. We've done a load of painting and things including boxing some ugly pipes in. Almost there... Sidenote: this is the first published picture from my P900. |
 November 9 large Sound You have to look VERY closely at this one, but if you do, you can see the sound and light guys dressed as a rabbit and a squirrel! |  November 9 large Balloon Fest Craziness at the Flaming Lips. |  November 9 large Flaming Brilliant Flamling Lips @ Usher Hall, totally rocking! |
 November 7 large MTV Gardens Chemical Brothers & Flaming Lips |  November 7 large MTV Gardens Tix OK, I managed to get some. Yes they cost me real money, so it had better be good! |  November 4 large MTV Gardens Stage The stage in Princes Street Gardens being constructed. |
 November 4 large MTV Queue The queue beginning outside Foot Locker for the final MTV tickets. For once, I got there early-24hours early. The free garden tickets, if there are any available, will be there at 2pm on Wednesday! |  November 4 large Mighty Bru Cans Hanging about on Princes Street at lunchtime. |  November 4 large Blogger Top My Blogger top just arrived, somewhat out of the blue. I ordered a small, and it seems that for once the Americans actually made a small garment. Doh! |
 November 1 large Park I took Robbie to the park this afternoon. We both had a lot of fun, although it turns out that the slides are only for mini-peoples. ;-) |  October 29 large Pink Pink clockfaces on the Balmoral Hotel for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. ThinkPink. |  October 29 large Parking Destructions |
 October 29 large Mpark Goes Live Looks like the service is now live in Edinburgh. I just need a car to test it with now. |  October 29 large Christmas Already? WAH -- Habitat has the Christmas decorations out already! |  October 27 large Happy Birthday Jams One of my oldest and most respected friends is now a year older. He recently told me this wise sayiny: Perfect Preparation Prevents P*** Poor Performance. Word. |
 October 25 large Jams Driving I thought l had lost this picture when my phone reformatted but lo, it has resurfaced! This was taken as we headed along the side of a picture perfect Loch Lomond, en route to Taynish. |  October 24 large Goodbye Concorde has now left the building. |  October 24 large Video Phoning No way, it actually worked! |
 October 24 large Concorde Waiting for takeoff! |  October 24 large Script Update Notice any change in the moblog? |  October 24 large Look hard! |
 October 24 large Quality jazz guitar from Kevin Mackenzie. |  October 23 large Meeting dwlt.net for beer & jazz. |  October 16 large Amazing scenery! |
 October 14 large Birthday food with Sandy. Very happy birthday. |  October 12 large The bus from my village to Glasgow is kind of empty... |  October 11 large My uncle is over from the States. |
 October 9 large Three services have had a makeover. The initial page takes even longer to load now. Result! |  October 8 large Jenny is my token famous-actor-friend. :-) |  October 8 large Giving Rich a hand with some fast wirelessness. |
 October 6 large Found this alcohol-free beer when I was tidying, a year out of date! |  October 4 large A few quiet beers goes all wrong for Neil. |  October 3 large I know them. |
October 3 large More of Anur-dude. |  October 3 large Kathryn, Keith & Anurag @ Monboddo. |  October 3 large Beers with the dude. |
 October 2 large De-licious! |  October 2 large The man himself. |  October 2 large Throwing some Nepalese action into the mix! |
 October 1 large It looked lovely. Hope this picture does it justice. |  October 1 large The RNLI guys decided to do a training launch. Very cool. |  October 1 large Looking out. The sky was beautiful! |
 October 1 large In NB to see my parents, where they are on holiday. This is looking across the bay to the harbour. |  September 28 large Today is Robbie's second birthday. The whole weekend has been Robbie-oriented, and I am exhausted! Kids are a full-time occupation. :-) |  September 26 large Need a Lexorian Sword Of War? I know just the place! How this shop (let alone anywhere) in Scotland is allowed to sell this stuff is WAY beyond me. |
 September 26 large Mitch, Charlie & Barb are in town for the weekend/week. Hello! |  September 25 large Post-dinner loud rock underground. Yes, I am hardcore. ;-) |  September 25 large Ah, tasty! |
 September 25 large This one is for the guys on #mobitopia. :-) |  September 22 large Robbie and Sophie having fun on the carousel in George Street yesterday. |  September 21 large It's turning into a busy day already! There's a big farmers market in town, in association with No Car Day. Ricl is en route, for some mighty produce action. |
 September 21 large Lovely day for a race. |  September 21 large Man, this weekend has been all about early mornings! Today Allan left for London, so Grant and I are now grabbing some breakfast. It is an absolutely BEAUTIFUL day here! |  September 20 large Mr Baxter is in Edinburgh for the day, after his sojourn. Word. |
 September 16 large All together. |  September 16 large Welcome home! |  September 12 large My blue ropelight has arrived. lt's going to look sweet above the kitchen door. |
 September 5 large Really, this phone is actually in daily use. The newspaper is purely for date validation purposes! |  September 4 large Jams and I fired out to B&Q (UK-wide DIY store) tonight to get a circle saw and connector block for kitchen light installation. In thc electrical aisle they had this great diagram showing how to set up a home network. Jams and I immediately felt embarrassed at not having any main frame action going on, so purchased an IBM S/390 each. ;-) |  September 3 large On Saturday evening, I took a load of photos with my phone, but it's taken me a day or two to sift through them. This one was taken towards the end of the display, and was one of the loudest fireworks I've ever witnessed -- mighty! |
 September 1 large This graffiti has been on l the shutter of the Princes Mall shopping centre, at the steps into Waverley station for ages and I kept meaning to see if the site actually existed. After finally photographing it, I checked, and John Pilger is actually a fairly serious documentary maker. Perhaps it's an anti-war statement. We prefer our graffiti to mean something, here in Edinburgh! |  August 31 large Saves me typing it up. ;-) |  August 31 large An array of Asian culture, and food, at the Mela. |
 August 31 large On reflection, I prefer this ballet picture. The perfornance last night was a perfect introduction for me, although I think last night was contemporary ballet. Not sure how I'd rate one of the 'classics' like Swan Lake. |  August 30 large :-) |  August 30 large WOW |
 August 29 large Today my little sis is 21. Allan & I got her the bracelet. :-) |  August 28 large 2 |  August 28 large 1 |
 August 28 large Hadn't planned to blog this one, but it shows the real size better. |  August 27 large Nokia have taken a pretty big ad for their next phone! |  August 27 large Stephan & Borno chill with the gnome outside Rogue. |
 August 26 large Shahzad & Borno a re in town... |  August 25 large Venues are starting to pack up and move on ... until next year. |  August 24 large I love this sculpture outside Buchanan Bus Station; it may actually have been modelled on me every time I go for a bus. |
 August 24 large Still at home, having lunch with family friends. Sun continues to shine! Delicious. |  August 23 large My sister got us all little 'party bags' of things we used to play with when we (kids) were small. I got a small Lego forklift, which was immediately constructed. Ah, Lego. |  August 23 large The sea air takes its toll on my siblings. Either that, or my conversation wasn't so great... |
 August 23 large The ferry we took to Great Cumbrae. |  August 23 large We're having a day out, and the sun has taken it's hat off for us! |  August 22 large Here's a good reason not to trust the boys from Redmond with your travel plans! |
 August 22 large I'm on a bus heading to Glasgow, and the sky looks beautiful. It is kind of weird now that it's getting dark earlier in the evenings now.- lights on before 9pm is a painful reminder of what's to come! For now though, I'm enjoying the sunset ... and sharing it with you. |  August 22 large My good friend Anurag was back home for a few weeks and brought me back this cool wallhanging. It will hang nicely in the hall. :-) |  August 21 large LOSERS! |
 August 21 large WINNERS! |  August 21 large Company |  August 19 large ive taken control of ml.com for one night only. martin is too busy working.night then. allan. |
 August 19 large Ahhh - OJ and raspberry puree! |  August 19 large I've been working like a slave decorating my kitchen. lt's finally getting somewhere! |  Ricl" border="0">August 15 large Ah, it's after midnight, must get a haircut! The joy of the Fest. [þic taken by Ricl |
 August 14 large Remember these planes when we were young? Ah, the memories... (thanks, Viv) |  August 14 large You can currently get unwired for free in Princes Street Gardens, at the Ross Bandstand. Intel have nicely set up a little tent with some laptops inside, but you can also pitch up with your own laptop/handheld. |  August 13 large Yahoo! webcast is go! |
 August 13 large Webcast foolishness at the Spiegel. Can you hear us Adelaide? |  SLIMP3. Now for the setup fun!" border="0">August 12 large Jen has arrived and so has my SLIMP3. Now for the setup fun! |  August 11 large Fullenbaum & Lopez |
 August 11 large Lights over the Spiegel. |  August 11 large Mr Ross Noble in full motion. |  Todd Gordon. Very good stuff." border="0">August 10 large Catching Todd Gordon. Very good stuff. |
 August 7 large |  August 5 large Rich's WLAN launch event at the EICC. |  August 4 large Neil & Malcy, looking pretty scary, as in real life! |
 August 4 large The mighty Spiegeltent - where many adventures have begun, over the years. |  August 4 large The National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland - fine tunes. |  August 4 large Sweets from Dubai. |
 August 1 large Latest update from my kitchen - it's really beginning to take shape! |  July 30 large This is most of the install done! |  July 30 large Team |
 July 30 large The latest from my kitchen - door panels are now on, worksurface in place & wall cupboards mounted. :-) |  July 29 large Lunchtime update. |  July 29 large If one IKEA breakfast costs one pound ... you know what's going to happen! |
 July 28 large Ah, you can't beat food cooked over an open fire! |  July 28 large My dad gets bored looking for a hob hood, and plays with the Lego at Currys at Newcraighall. :-) |  July 28 large |
 July 28 large Bare kitchen. |  July 27 large My sister sent this to me. Just in case you can't quite read the text in the photo, it says: "I'm smiling because I'm your sister. I'm laughing because you can't do anything about it!" |  July 24 large Iain & Amanda :-) |
 July 19 large Tan's birthday and it's a beautiful sunny day! |  July 18 large Stark enjoys a Sunny Beaches |  July 18 large Happy Birthday, Pete! |
 July 16 large Beers at the Pear Tree with a rake of Festival production managers. Need tickets, know these people. | July 16 large My gorgeous Godson, enjoying seeing himself on video. |  July 14 large A man's drink & a ladies drink |
 July 14 large |  July 14 large Foolish |  July 14 large John's arm! |
 July 14 large Beers at Oloroso with Jams and John. |  July 14 large Upper 20s at lunchtime. Yeeha! |  July 8 large Mr & Mrs Baxter gave me a Gucci keyring for ... being the 'King of Edinburgh'. I'm the man. ;-) |
 July 7 large The hardcore kids at Favorit |  July 7 large Grant & Maki's wedding. :-) |  July 5 large Edinburgh hosts a profusion of hen and stag parties each weekend. These guys fron Leicester, all 28 of them, were on great form, and looking good too! |
 July 5 large OK, the 24hour moblog is done, but moblogging is still fun. This is Karen and John at the Fruitmarket Gallery, with a girl with the coolest hair ever in the background. |  July 5 large And finally, back to the start. Hope you've enjoyed the trip. Martin |  July 5 large The Penny Black opens at 5am, in case you need an early beer. |
 July 4 large ME, Eric & K-Lo. |  July 4 large At the Cafe Royal. |  July 4 large Eric & Karen arrive. |
 July 4 large En route to meet friends. You can't beat free train travel! |  July 4 large Welcome to the Caley. |  July 4 large Transit. |
 July 4 large Mmmm-a fine selection of beers. Nearly time to head out. |  July 4 large The corporate duck. ;-) |  June 26 large It's cooking in Edinburgh today - 20C! |
 June 24 large 'Ster & Cormac |  June 23 large Microsoft are yet to grasp the full benefit of putting software on DVDs. |  June 22 large We stopped for food at the Agricultural Hotel on the way back up, and I ate ALL the food, starting with 1.5lb of lamb shoulder. Mmmmm! |
 June 21 large Lots of cousins. |  June 21 large My cousin John & the gorgeous Jo get married. More photos to come! |  June 18 large The first photo from my NEC e606. |
 June 17 large Lunch in the sun - oh what a beautiful day! |  June 15 large Aiii |  June 15 large Centraaaaaaal |
 June 14 large Quad biking-the all too predictable outcome. PS Happy Birthday, John |  June 13 large At lunchtime I took a walk along Princes St - first time in a while. 3 have taken a window in Superdrug, so I took up their offer to 'come in and play'. The e606 and e808 I used both impressed me. I video-called a friend I met there, and was still impressed. Given the great tarifs currently on offer and the assurance of 3G coverage in my house, a purchase may be approaching! |  June 11 large One of the shops close to my flat has finally been let, after a long time vacant, to Blendz. They sell smoothies, coffee & bagels. I tested the espresso this morning and it was good. I'll try a smoothie in a few days, when I'm sure it won't take too long. |
 June 10 large Graeme and I met for coffee, but the connection wasn't playing. Strangely, the only way to pay is Visa/Mastercard/Eurocard - no Switch or American Express. |  June 10 large Once the scaffolding for the Tattoo starts going up, Festival feels so much nearer. |  June 10 large On my way home tonight, I spotted T-Mobile advertising their WiFi access, called Hotspots, at a Starbucks here in Edinburgh. That's the first time I've seen wireless access advertised here (apart from my own warchalk ;-). I'd love to see what promo material they have in-store, so if anyone has a copy or it's online already, please let me know. |
 June 8 large Coming (almost) live from Godskitchen! Quality night & morning with Dietmar, Jams & Birte. Time for sleep now! |  June 6 large Enjoyable mullet in the Belfry bar. How we laughed. |  June 6 large Evan & Stark. It must be love... |
 June 6 large Stark & Scott enjoying a beer in the sunshine, for Evan's birthday. |  June 6 large Robbie in full construction mode. He's got some great toys now. |  June 5 large Senor Robbie, rocking down. |
 June 5 large At 3am in Edinburgh, this is as dark as we can make it! Ah, it's nights like these that remind me why I live through such yucky winters. |  May 30 large My contribution to the MirrorProject AKA Me & My P800. |  May 29 large My rock & roll bro got me this t-shirt! It's only appropriate I post about it here. |
 AIIan and I were being pretty obvious. Maybe Starbucks in the UK is more chilled out." border="0">May 25 large The second Starbucks picture. These were both taken right beside several staff, and AIIan and I were being pretty obvious. Maybe Starbucks in the UK is more chilled out. |  May 25 large Me @ Starbucks on Forest Road, Edinburgh. Thanks to Martin Bravo for the t-shirt! |  May 23 large The super Mr Blair and Mr Bleakney-friends of old! |
 May 23 large Someone sent me this-it appears to be from the next Matrix... |  May 23 large And this one! |  May 23 large Allan not on a Matrix motorbike. |
 May 19 large Grant & Maki, both looking happy! |  May 6 large My Memory Stick Duo 128MB card has finally arrived. MP3 time is here! |  Giovanni sent me this cool image he took at the Symbian Exposium of a 'virtual' keyboard. I've wanted one of these for AGES!" border="0">May 5 large Giovanni sent me this cool image he took at the Symbian Exposium of a 'virtual' keyboard. I've wanted one of these for AGES! |
 May 1 large Eric: not quite Friday... |  April 30 large ... and this too. |  April 30 large THIS is why I'm an engineer. |
 April 30 large The top floor. |  April 30 large Digitopolis-yeah! |  April 30 large This is the cool new Wellcome Wing at the Science Museum. |
 April 29 large Shakespeare's Globe Theatre |  April 28 large Rafe, myself and Russ at the AAS meet. |  April 28 large A lot of phones. |
 April 28 large I call this one View from a Stationary Train... |  April 28 large Another good night at Oloroso! |  April 23 large Another beautiful day in Edinburgh! |
 April 22 large Gotan Project-fantastique! | ||