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So this is a weird situation, where my personal world and professional world start to mix.  The technical sales, training and consultancy I ...

Student, The Edinburgh Evening News and The Herald all picked the story up and ran some nice pieces on it, unfortunately the only high quali...

Stocks and Shots was an evening at The Caledonian Brewery, organised between EUTIC and SiS, which brought the first stock market bar to Scot...

A treat for everyone of Valentine's Day, for any woman, man or other.  After a brief hiatus I'm back in the top four images for ...

Another year, another St. Andrew's Day, another excuse to post "that saltire sky" photo I took from the east end of George S...

Finally Instagram have launched their own Web profiles! These pages will show the most recent 12 photos that you've taken. Sadly they do...

Over the years I've taken a lot of photos, and Instagram allows me to quickly snap something and push it out to my feed, as well as Twit...

 Edinburgh is seeing an increase in chalk graffiti right now but this time it has a message.  Unlike a decade ago when an art student prom...

Wow!  There I was reading the latest reviews from the Edinburgh Fringe on Chortle.co.uk when I noticed two reviews that had a certain charm ...

Wow, six years of PhillG.com and 600 posts (the six-hundredth was my great urinals gag yesterday).  It's been a long time with a lot of...

Yes I know it sounds obscene, but here's its official meaning / definition: Double-Wicking - verb (only used in Present Perfect Conti...

Wow!  I've been doing this for five years now, spanning three different careers!  500 different posts, many of which I don't even re...

Yes, this is purely a self congratulatory post (I'm allowed one ever year...).  I wonder what happens if you Google " Toy Story 3 U...

These "leader" debates are really starting to annoy me...  They are so damaging for politics in the country in a pathetic attempt ...

Only a few days after the announcement that Working Lunch's original host Adrian Chiles is leaving the BBC , an even bigger announcement...

Yes the first part of this subject is a very powerful line that really moved me when I first read it*.  It translates as "Time Destroys...

Lock up your daughters (and lock down your IT Systems)... The boys are back in town!  Sadly, the SNIPEF 2010 reunion has a lower turn out th...

The end of the anti-penultimate day in February and there is a blizzard of snow in the centre of Edinburgh. It's like the good ol' d...

I'm really happy that the human-centric web has finally reached out to our cousins, the delicate bees , and created them their own socia...

What happened to January...?  Any way, here's how I welcomed in the new decade, kneeling in the middle of the frozen Union Canal with a ...