One of my guilty pleasures has been a love of sci-fi for more years than I care to remember ( I still recall the painful tug when I finally binned my almost 1k collection of 2000AD’s !) One story line that ran was a great little series called Zenith, detailing the trials and tribulations of [...]

Well TimeSwappers has been up and running for a couple of weeks now and we’ve had a number of posts in the East Lothian yahoogroups page for TimeSwappers and in parallel with this I’ve been getting the Organisation homepage updated and online too. Latest content is now a detailed breakdown of information required to go [...]

Tomorrow evening I’ll be having a few drinks with colleagues and friends I’ve known and worked with over the last 4 years at my current employers. My wife was asking me how I was feeling about it given that I was basically a week away from leaving my job for good…I had to admit that [...]

I had a bit of a snort at this morning’s PVP when I checked in after my customary breakfast. I kind of understood the ‘throwing the goat’ reference, loved the urbane, diffidence from Butler but had to go look it up properly to check I was getting the connotation right…turns out I was ! Very [...]

I’ve been watching the frankly hysterical reporting that’s followed the recent discovery in London of the attempted car bombs and the Glasgow Airport Flaming ram raid with increasing levels of surprise and incredulity then I read this post on ElReg by a ex-bomb disposal Johnny…makes funny and grounding reading. The world is NOT about to [...]

I’ve been a fan of the word Bork for a long time now…in the context of the Swedish chef from the muppets crashing around singing ‘Bork, bork, bork’ at the top of his fuzzy little head while wildly brandishing a meat cleaver, to the use of the word to describe errant hardware, cocked-up software or [...]