Archive for June, 2008

Had a beautiful evening last night.. ending up listening to an artist I’ve heard very little of, but lots about, after picking up a copy of Metro and randomly opening up at the gigs page – a pleasant surprise!
Like Duke Special, the resident Nothern Irish population turned up in force to see Foy Vance… and [...]

Now I know why I bought a Mac! I’ve been using the a wee adaptor to plug my power supply with a european plug into sockets here and thought that it might be cool to buy the british version of the wee socket. I popped along to the Apple Store in Glasgow to ask, who [...]

Looks like we missed a big party in Bern last night! Yakin, Zuberbühler and Behrami should get some extra toblerone this morning..!
Hopp Schwyz!

Sitting in my sister’s flat in edinburgh typing this and watching the Switzerland v Portugal (not much hope for them!).
if you’re interested in hanging out on tuesday night/wednesday in Glasgow give me a wee text on my UK mobile number (same one I had just before I disappeared off to switzerland).
It’s good to taste the [...]

Our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot. For the ‘content’ of a medium is like the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind.”
(McLuhan, p.207 New Media Reader)
I picked this quote [...]