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If I even get to do ten percent of the walks on this list I’d be a happy camper.

CakePHP looks absolutely brilliant. It could be a way for me to learn some PHP programming (note to self: one might want to learn some PHP and mySQL first). But do I have enough hours in the day to teach myself a programming language that could greatly increase my employment prospects and myopia?

Hell no.

Via Gadgetopia.

God, I hope my name goes on the register in time!

How to vote. This ballot uses a preferential system like the ones I saw in Australia.

It doesn’t look too complicated, as long as the voters take the time to learn enough about their prospective MSPs / councillors. Yes. I’m being too optimistic.

You do sort of start to wonder what values the Americans are trying to protect: “The British have treated him with the utmost professionalism and respect. This was in sharp contrast to the US, who took him from his cell and put him on a plane shackled and blindfolded. They insisted on one last attempt to dehumanise him.” — Freed British resident talks of hopelessness at Guantánamo

• went to Brucefield Farm for dessert and South Queensferry to sit and chat while looking at the rail bridge
• woke to find a bunch of Scottish Labour election signs all over the street
• went to the Torbothie Quoiting Club to see Highway Jones (photo above taken from the very back of the club, where we were seated)
• got back and was woken quite suddenly by the sound of someone who had too many beers and whiskies being, er, somewhat ill
• drove to Lanark Loch (photo below taken after laughing at the swans, ducks, and coots — I love how ‘Loch’ involves what sounds like the hacking up of a big loogie)
• went for a walk to the local cemetery before dinner
• watched Grey’s Anatomy (this is getting to be a habit)
• watched a little bit of A Nightmare on Elm Street (whoa, Johnny Depp’s HAIR)