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Minus One Gully
Out on the Ben today with Simon. Good forecast and good reports of ice on the hill.
Andy Turner and Dave Macleod have been on the Ben all week completing the Mashall – Smith Challenge as part of the FMFF
The target for the Day Minus one gully is ominously described in the guide as being “not often in [...] -
Back 2 Basics
Today I was at Ratho near Edinburgh running a taster session for friends of a friend who won the session at a charity auction just before Christmas.
We started off by going through tying in and practicing being lowered down and moved onto belay technique later in the session.
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Messiah another day !
A frustrating but productive day on the hills today. The forecast seemed to be for some high winds and snow showers but the lack of this in the Southern Highlands meant that the Creag an Socach on Beinn Dorain was Stripped bare while the South facing Creag Coire an Dothaidh still looked as white as [...]
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Beinn an Dothaidh, Menage a Trois – 24/01/10
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First Scottish outing since my Trip to France which saw me miss some one of the longest cold spell’s Scotland has seen in many years. The slow thaw has been doing it’s worst for about a week but the mountain routes are all still in good nick and some fresh wintery weather has been keeping [...]
Web Development
STS 2009
The Scottish Tooling Series completed it’s second season at the end of 2009. During the Autumn 2009 I created a community website for the Series.
The site aimed to:
Communicate information to competitors
Allow an outlet for sponsors and supporters
Allow users to create content (photos and videos)
Build the buzz of the series in-between events.
The site was a great [...]
Melimelo Photo is launched!
I have just completed a new commercial site for a local photographer.
The site is designed to show off Estelles brilliant photography and give information about pricing and sessions booking.
Along with an extensive flash gallery management in the back end the site using auto Thumbnailing from posts to create the dramatic front page layout.
This is a [...]
Quality DJ Front Page for SEO Terms
Quality DJ has been on the go for over three years and since it’s inception I have been responsible for all it’s SEO optimisation and promotion.
The site has been promoted organically without using any link banks an other aggressive methods which makes it all the more pleasing that it is now realising it’s potential and [...]
Photography
Valencia
A work trip to Valencia gave me the opportunity to take some architectural shots of this beautiful place.
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Web Development
STS 2009
The Scottish Tooling Series completed it’s second season at the end of 2009. During the Autumn 2009 I created a community website for the Series.
The site aimed to:
Communicate information to competitors
Allow an outlet for sponsors and supporters
Allow users to create content (photos and videos)
Build the buzz of the series in-between events.
The site was a great [...]
More in Web Development
climbing
Minus One Gully
Out on the Ben today with Simon. Good forecast and good reports of ice on the hill.
Andy Turner and Dave Macleod have been on the Ben all week completing the Mashall – Smith Challenge as part of the FMFF
The target for the Day Minus one gully is ominously described in the guide as being “not often in [...]
More in climbing
Trumpet
Wedding Trumpeter
I have played the Trumpet and Cornet for many years in a variety of orchestra’s brass bands and as a solo performer.
A wedding trumpeter is able to play music for the processional, recessional, signing of the register and provide a boost to the hymns.
The sound of a trumpet in a church acoustic accompanied by the [...]
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Random Rants
SPAMTASTIC
I took a look in my spam filter yesterday to try and find a mail that had gone astray and while i was there i clicked the delete all messages. A couple of minutes later i refreshed the page and found 5 new spam messages within 2 mins!!!!
This Morning I have 357 new spam messages [...]