Came across a description of the BBC Domesday Project for no particular reason than I wondered what had happened to the blokes that presented the BBC program on computers in the 80s when I were a lad.

I was in first or second year when our school did our bit on the locality to the South West of Glenrothes, and we packed into the Glenwood High School mini bus and did our research for the project which put all the data onto Laser Disc. How high tech!

Talking about old computer programs, do you remember a radio programme presented by Barry Norman that covered the early days of computers? I remember a programme that talked about ‘Rabbits’ which were self reproducing programs. Sounds like a virus to me.

Just been to the MCN Scottish Motorcycle Show at Ingliston, not too far from where I live. I actually enjoyed it! Took a few measures to help the experience along.

1. Parked at the car park nearest to the airport, avoiding paying the priviledge to park in a field that you cannot get back out again of without four wheel drive.
2. Bought our tickets on the gate, having had to queue up with my prepaid tickets last time. What is the point of saving two quid to pay in advance?
3. Everybody was wrapped up, maybe too much, but a lot easier than moaning cold folks.

Some nice bikes going, and managed to shift most of my reticence at sitting on the bikes.

Best bike for me? Shifted from the Triumph Tiger this year, my wife decided that the one that rode in as we were walking in to the show looks wierd in the area below the half fairing. So the one for us is the BMW K1200RS, big enough for me, low enough for my wife to get on (being that she is around a foot and a half shorter than me) the pillion perch.

I had a bit of fun trying out cruisers for a laugh, sadly the rest of the family said they suited me in a sad kind of way. I must have the black tee shirted fat bloke act down to a tee.

With the new digital camera I have quite a few pictures to post up. They will be posted up to my motorcycle website back at demon.

It took them a wee while, but the annual Scottish Motorcycle Show held at the Royal Highland Showground has updated its website in anticipation of the event over the weekend of 13th and 14th March.

I’ll be heading along with my new digital camera (more details to follow) and promising to park somewhere that I don’t get stuck and look at all the nice new shiny bikes.

Up in the centre of town to look at, you guessed it, a web app running on Microsoft kit.

In my confused state earlier in the week I confused one coffee emporium with another.

The actual coffee place in the same building as easyInternetCafe is Caffe Nero, not Costa. My brain must work even less at that time of the day than I originally thought.

I will need to get my act together with this blog as my eminent ex-colleagues are beginning to link to it. As you may or may not know, this blog is running Scott Watermasysk’s dottext (.Text) blogging software on the european webmatrix hosting site.

I have a few tweaks to finalise the installation as I would like it, and have to get the email sending working with the hosting arrangement and we will be “cooking on gas” as the term hereabouts goes.

In the meantime thanks to Martin Sutherland and Spencer Harbar for picking up on the new blog.

Went shopping for a new suit last Saturday and popped in to pick it up today after the alterations had been made.

It needed the trousers shortened a little and the sleeves extended a little, Slater Menswear (George Street in Edinburgh) do free alterations so all sorted.

The suit ? A dark blue single breasted two piece suit. They didn’t have the darker three piece suit in my size so I will be popping back in a few weeks to see if they have it, or get it ordered.

Nice to buy suits again, haven’t bought any for a few years!