The one where I talk about gay adoption

There seems to be a huge furore about gay adoption at the minute with the Catholic Church (and Anglican church) for that matter going on a bit of a crusade to apparently prevent the moral destruction of Britains orphans and unwanted.
I just wondered what all the fuss is about. I mean, I can see how [...]

Scots of the Anarchic

I’m not entirely sure of what it means to be Scottish these days. Things seem to be heading in a different direction from that which I hoped. Nationalism is rearing it’s ugly head again.
Don’t get me wrong, I could understand nationalism in the old dark days of Thatcher and the Tories when Scotland was on [...]

The Spirit Of Radio

I’ve recently rediscovered the joy of Radio. Not music radio mind you. Music to me is a very personal thing. I can’t be doing with spending time listening to a radio station play songs I can’t stand. If I want music I’ll stick on a CD.
I do however love talk radio. I’ve always been a [...]

Big Bother/Kebab mishaps

Fuck me. The world has gone nuts about the latest series of ‘Celebrity Big Brother’. 14,000 complaints received at the last count which makes it the most complained about television programme in history. It is being discussed in both the UK and Indian parliaments.
Even more bizarrely, there are people out on the streets of India [...]

New phone

We decided to give voice over ip telephony a go for our day to day telephone calls at home. We’ve been Skype users for a while now (generally I’ve used it for online gaming communication and business calls) and have been very impressed. As I originally intended to use the Skype line for all of [...]

Worried

I shed a few tears last night before I went to sleep. I’m admitting this at the risk of sounding girly. I’m worried about my Grandad. We went to visit him last night and I can’t help but feel that he is resigned to ending his days in hospital. He is so close to getting [...]

New year, new operating system

Happy New Year. I can’t believe it’s 2007 already. It seems no time since it was 1997 and the Labour party stormed to power. Seems hard to believe now given Tony Blair’s rapidly declining popularity. Anyway, I digress.
We didn’t do anything for New Year and it was great. Living in Edinburgh you get a bit [...]