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Mac devs Manchester meet-up

Hot on the heels of our upcoming Edinburgh mac devs meet-up, there’s one in Manchester next week too: you can read about it here. It’s on Thursday, May 15 2008 beginning at 6:30 pm, and it’s at the Manchester Digital Development Agenc...

Posted by Matt Gemmell at Wed, 07 May 2008 09:35:00 +0100

To boldly go where no name has gone before

Get NASA to send your name to the moon (courtesy of some memory storage device on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.) It's ultimately a pointless exercise, but could generate a small frisson of excitement in you dull, workaday life - you get a certi...

Posted by Matt Pitkin at Wed, 07 May 2008 00:07:00 +0100

Mac devs Edinburgh meet-up

Details here. We’re meeting at Baroque, 39-41 Broughton Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3JU, on Tuesday 13 May 2008, from 19:00. Email David (as requested in the post I’ve linked to above) if you’re coming along, and feel free to let me know h...

Posted by Matt Gemmell at Tue, 06 May 2008 23:32:00 +0100

Higher Thematic Presentations

This year at Ross High we’re hoping our Higher Graphics Class will be producing some really cool stuff for their Thematic Presentations (a folio of different types of graphic work based around a single artefact) with a suggested theme of Lego to...

Posted by Stuart Meldrum at Tue, 06 May 2008 21:38:03 +0100

Scrounging for yet more advice

You might see a theme developing here, I’m basically just asking for people to give me lots of their ideas, under the guise of sharing good practice Today’s theme is how to set up a classroom. In August I will have the amazing luxury of ha...

Posted by Stuart Meldrum at Tue, 06 May 2008 19:59:49 +0100

Scraping into the play-offs

The Championship season's ended and Watford have just about managed to scrape through with the final play-off spot. We were saved from being in the dreaded seventh position in the table by virtue of having a goal difference one goal better than Wolves!...

Posted by Matt Pitkin at Mon, 05 May 2008 15:51:00 +0100

Civic Pride

Growing up in Glasgow, I was exposed to more than my fair share of internecine rivalries: when I was more serious about blogging, I planned a grand series of posts cataloguing every single one of them. Easy, I thought, there’s the other football ...

Posted by Derek Murray at Mon, 05 May 2008 11:30:58 +0100

Faslane Peace Punx Picnic

Yesterday I had my first visit to the famous Faslane Peace Camp in order to play the Punx Picnic. I showed up with Roscoe Vacant around 3pm, and was quickly spotted as carrying a guitar so was then ushered up towards the stage in order to open the day....

Posted by Dave Hughes at Mon, 05 May 2008 09:53:22 +0100

Two gigs in one day, One today!

I’m suffering from a massive hangover today. Yesterday was pretty good fun. At 1pm I received a message on MySpace asking if I wanted to play at The Arts Centre in Paisley at 3, so I went along. Saw a couple of really good acts and then played my...

Posted by Dave Hughes at Sun, 04 May 2008 13:25:50 +0100

Terror in the Arctic

Due to having being lax on the blogging front last month I'll begin with a post I meant to write a while back, but obviously didn't. It's a brief review of the last book I read called The Terror by Dan Simmons. In my opinion The Terror is a return to f...

Posted by Matt Pitkin at Thu, 01 May 2008 15:47:00 +0100