For his 60th birthday, my brother and I took my dad to Heston Blumenthal’s restaurant The Fat Duck. We ate the Tasting Menu and had a jolly nice time. Nitro-green tea and lime mousse (2001) Our first course was prepared at the table: a spoonful of mousse swirled around in liquid nitrogen until it kinda turned into a fun-looking meringue. One […]

I’ve built this little application to allow publication and sharing of Spotify playlists. There are others like it on the web, but this one is mine. Features an RSS feed for all playlists pagination to avoid long pages a record of the number of clicks for each playlist the ability to sort by number of clicks or most recent […]

Heart Buchanan’s new BBC lunch delivery service (wot I built) has made the papers:- Home comforts HOW are the precious folk at the BBC coping with their move from the refined west end to Govan, you may or may not wonder. Well, while their neighbours in Govan go down to an ice-cream van for their […]

As far as I can trace, the only score line similar to this in matches between East Fife and Forfar was Forfar 5 East Fife 4 in a Division Two match on 22 April 1964. East Fife Questions & Answers

On Sunday 27 May 2007, I achieved the perfect game at Wii Sports bowling. I was particularly delighted for two reasons:- It was done both in competition with three other players and in full view of the majority of my pals; and It laid to rest the ghost of Super Monkey Bowling (the pressure got to me and I missed […]