Aberdeen, I am in you. #odcamp

A design featuring a black chameleon filled with binary code and the text Open Data Camp 6 is shown alongside a map highlighting locations in Aberdeen with the hashtag #ODCamp.

My school helped shape key Bodyguard character…

This is about The Bodyguard and the school I attended…

Bowman, born in Dundee, told how he drew on his experience at Dollar Academy, near Stirling, to find the character. “I went to a boarding school in Scotland,” he said, “which are brutal places with children being sent away at a very young age. I think that creates an atmosphere that is very particular to the English ruling class. It creates the type of person who can be cold and quite detached, and lacking in empathy.”

I was a day pupil.



Wikipedia has a paid editing problem — and it might be getting worse. I was approached by a paid editor a few weeks ago, offering to get me in…


Flickr makes some smart changes to its account structure while throwing some serious shade on Yahoo’s stewardship of the site.


Missed Halloween with my girls, but based on the evidence they had a great night. 🎃


Some good updates to Flickr.

Now there’s a phrase I didn’t expect to be writing.


Me, during today's Apple event

Me during the first half of the Apple event:

Distracted Apple Fan

Me during the second half of the Apple event:

Look at those Pros

Noting in recent times has made me as old as realising that The Guardian pioneered live-blogging 19 years ago.


Watching the new iPad Pro stuff, I’m becoming increasing convinced that my current MacBook Pro will be my last.