I spotted this crazy effect of water being vaporized as the sun melted the ice. Anyone seen this before.

My pictures from Agilent Live III are now online

A Big thanks and well done to all the bands that performed (Early Shift, Bad Monkey, Kirstyn Knowles, The Remedy, The Jack, Skellum and Kipper. Also special thanks go to Gavin for all the hard working organizing this once again.

So I just happened to upload this picture on to my flickr pages in the early hours of the morning, not because of talk like a pirate day, but as part of my general sorting out of my photos taken over the Summer. However because of the pirate theme, it has made it's way onto the "Interesting" page on flickr!

This picture was taken at Melrose Abbey on the way back from Katherine and Colin's wedding, on a fine sunny day.

UPDATE: Thanks to http://www.syddware.com/cgi-bin/pirate.pl

A sea dog says 't this way:
So I jus' happened t' upload this picture on t' me flickr pages in th' early hours o' th' mornin', nay on accoun' o' o' talk like a swashbuckler tide, but as part o' me general sortin' ou' o' me photos taken o'er th' Summer. Howerebecause o' th' swashbuckler theme, 't has made 'tis way onto th' "Interesting" page on flickr!
This picture be taken at Melrose Abbey on th' way aft from Katherine an' Colin`s weddin', on a fine sunny tide.
Ya scurvy dog who ortin' t' be keel hauled!

UPDATE2: Thanks to commenters on Flickr, the Latin above reads "memento mori" or "remember you are mortal", or something of that ilk? (someone else recons "Mei Entomo") anyone any ideas?

We made it out the office early enough on Saturday evening to catch the sun going down on the beach. This is the wooden rollercoaster at Luna Park.

Still jet lagged, I woke up ridiculously early at 5am, and walked into the office as the sun was rising

I missed the train home on Friday and managed to get these shots as the sun set.

We went on a cycle ride around town today in the Sunshine and Rachel spotted the blossoms on this tree. I definitely feel that spring is in the air, especially as we'll start to get more sunshine in the evenings when the clocks go forward tonight

Sunset over the Forth and Union Canal This was taken from the Lemmington Lift Bridge, looking West. I caught the sun setting over the canal, I love the contrast of angular lines of the soon to be demolished brewery on the right and the raggard roof lines of the flats on the left.

Just back from this years winter trip. A Big thanks to Richard once again for organising things. Pictures are in my gallery and one for one of the walks are available on a map.

Right I have to admit I not a big fan of myspace. I don't like the fact that every page seems to make noise. I have my own music/tv/whatever happening and I don't like the intrusion. Then there are the awful templates that most people seem to apply to the page. Despite this it does seem to be one of the most popular websites in whatever country you look, so I have an account. I was looking round yesterday to see if anyone from my old School was on and I spotted the fiollowing: It may be minor, but the profile Updated is shown as {ts '2007-02-06 13:06:06'}. The whole {ts ' '} thing shouldn't be displayed, this is just shoddy. Furthermore I just tried to run the same search and recieved an error:
Sorry! an unexpected error has occurred. This error has been forwarded to MySpace's technical group.
So maybe they've taken down the serach facility to fix these kind of errors, but this isn't the first time that I've seen these errors and you would expect the quality of a site the size of myspace to be much better.

I've just noticed that Google have finally got round to updating the Google Earth imagery for Edinburgh. It's about time to as the Microsoft and Yahoo aerial imagery have covered Edinburgh for some time now. It looks to me like the images of Edinburgh were captured in August last year, the level of detail is very impressive. A few nice things to point out here are, sitting on the Meadows we can see the big top circus tent and fairground used over the festival. Also of interest is the aerial view of of the Quartermile development. We can see how much of the area has been demolished and how much the area still has to be developed. The winding areas of the castle is also well worth a look. The bandstands put up for the Edinburgh Tattoo is in evidence on the esplanade. To open these files in Google Earth use these kml files: EdinburghCastle.kmz, Quartermile_Edinburgh.kmz, FairgroundonMeadows.kmz

On the lookout for some Autumn Pictures I managed to get this shot of some leaves under a layer of water on a children's slide.