The chain of related albums picks up again after an interval for Van, as Jackie Leven has played with David Thomas of Pere Ubu as Ubudoll. I once saw them play together, at the Borderline in 2004, and was impressed that Jackie Leven had miked up the floor by his foot — his boot was the only pe...

This week I helped out Peter John Meiklem on a story for the Sunday Herald about the future of journalism. Amid all the job losses in the Scottish media, the piece looks at whether bloggers can step up to the plate and begin to supplant traditional media outlets. My view has long been that blogging ...

The backup drive in the shed is bugging me =/ My HD is 80 gigs, and it tends to be around 60-70 gigs full. The backup drive has 60 gigs allocated to me, which is PLENTY considering all I need to backup is My Docs (33 gigs) and a few peripherals (like fonts, address book, Photoshop brushes and swatch...

This sight is currently only viewable using the Google Earth application. Usually Google Maps is updated a few days after Google Earth, when this sight will be visible in your web browser. In the meantime, all links will launch in Google Earth. Over the weekend Google rolled out another major image ...

Many will feel that I'm being too hard on Scotland but I believe this group of players do have much more to offer....

England hooker Lee Mears expects Matt Stevens to come back from his twoyear ban from rugby even more determined to succeed....

For private equity firms hoping to get hard-to-find financing for deals, there's one less place for them to turn. Tucked into the Royal Bank of Scotland's announcement of a $34.2 billion annual loss - the largest in British corporate history - was word that the partially nationalized firm was gettin...

It is nearly two years since I first wrote here about WordTalk .  Since then, I have worked hard to promote this powerful free text-to-speech plugin for Microsoft Word.  WordTalk turns the Windows version of Microsoft Word into a talking word processor that highlights text as it is read.  It incl...

The Edinburgh Fringe festival's first chief executive was named today and warned that the recession has raised serious concerns about funding, despite a recent £250,000 emergency loan from the city's council and other funders. Kath Mainland, currently the administrative director of the Edinburgh in...

For a bit of Friday fun, here’s a roundup of our top ten rudest and funniest 1 UK place names on Google Maps. So with no further ado, in reverse order, the winners are… 10. Titty Ho, Northamptonshire 9. Back Passage, City of London 8. Fine Bush Lane, West London 7. Crapstone, Devon 6. Sl...