As some of you may or may not be aware Richard Dawkins, the popular science author, spoke at the Lib Dem conference in September about the blight of the UK libel laws stifling the international scientific community.
Dawkins explained how many companies are using the draconian libel laws to silence, financially cripple and ultimately hinder any [...]
Seeing as how I had covered the London Stop the War coalition protest, as there was one a lot closer in Edinburgh, it seemed silly not to head along to photograph that too. The Edinburgh Stop the War protest march was on the 14th November.
Bright and early Saturday morning, Paul and I headed up [...]
October 24th 2009 was set to be the date for the ‘Stop The War’ protest, a demonstration march against the ongoing war in Afghanistan. The top 10 reasons for protesting, as quoted by the Stop The War website were:
The death rate is rising on both sides
The number of British troops who have died is now [...]
Ok, so in the past hour or so I have taken a wee bit of flak from people on twitter, facebook etc. Why? Because I made a few jokes about Patrick Swayze dying. Those jokes were:
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All i have to say on the matter of Patrick Swayze being dead is that it has to be a [...]
Well, as you all know yesterday was the big day for the court appearance for Rookinella and her cohorts.
As some people had noticed, the online listings for Forfar showed that they were not listed to be in court there. None of the other local courts showed them listed either, but a wee bit digging soon [...]
I got a call from a friend on his way home from work saying there was smoke coming from the Dunston Staiths, so I took a quick wander along there with the camera and sure enough someone had set it on fire, sadly. Thankfully it wasn’t too bad a fire, and the fire brigade were [...]
So i was intrigued after writing my last post about TweepMe just exactly what someone would be letting themselves in for if they did sign up to the service, what accounts they could expect to see updates from etc.
Well, curiosity got the better of me so I threw some code together to scrape their pages [...]
So there is a huge buzz going about at the moment regarding http://www.tweepme.com – and the premise is basically this:
You sign up on the page, using your twitter username and password. Your account auto follows every other TweepMe user over a period of time, as does theirs meaning that everyone ends up following everyone.
So basically, [...]
A fellow Geordie and twitter user has decided to take on quite a task in the aid of charity, namely to travel around the world (or at least as far as he can manage) using twitter to help him along.
On the 1st of March Paul will leave his home in Newcastle and head out into [...]
I was interviewed about two weeks ago by the BBC for an article about my photography and Urbex in general, but due to the interviewer being seconded to radio for a short while the article has only just gone up on the site now. The reporter found my pics through a photography site which [...]
