Concerning Quality
A true story. Back in 1999 after a couple of years working with my first employers, I wanted to see […]
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A Geek in Lockdown
What’s a geek to do to keep the world turning?
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Caithness Holiday Day 5: Badbea Clearance Village
An unusual choice of place to visit on the last day of one’s holidays, but an important monument to Highland/Caithness
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Around Binnend
After serendipitously discovering a lot of heritage information about the abandoned former village of Binnend, on The Binn outside Burntisland
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Morvern 3/4: In Search of Purity
Time to explain the motivation for this excursion to the Morvern peninsula. A few months ago, I was exploring what
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Landscape, Photography and Land Management
This is going to be a long post, drawing on several disparate areas of experience and interest. Welcome to my
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Hogmanay 2016/2017
Happy new year! I saw the year in from Blackford Hill looking at the fireworks over Edinburgh Castle. Watching folks
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Cultybraggan Camp
Another set from a photo-excursion in May this year, directly contrasting with the pleasure of nature’s bluebells earlier in the
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Too-Big Data? That don’t impress me much
On a whim, I spent the evening in Edinburgh at a meetup presentation/meeting concerning Big Data, the talk given by
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Festive spirit
A carpark in central Leeds, one Sunday morning during Christmas 2014. Which serves the public better – a traffic warden
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Perth Winter Festival: Stories (2)
Continuing the theme of things I saw on my travels around Perth one Saturday afternoon – this time, some rather
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Perth Winter Festival: Stories (1)
Continuing the theme of things I saw around Perth one Saturday afternoon… I have absolutely no idea what a chained-up
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Around St Fillan’s
Streetview Loch Earn is still an idyllic scene despite everyone stopping to take photos in St Fillan’s. Herewith, two obvious
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How I Voted…
Happily. It’s the orthogonal thoughts that caught my eye, so to speak. The trees still stand. I mean, the town