Tag Archives: Edinburgh Bookshop

EBS Event: Alistair Darling

Image: The Guardian Alistair Darling Alistair Darling was in town last night to promote his new book, Back From the Brink, “a first-hand account of the (economic) crisis of 2007, and a fascinating view of life inside the Downing Street … Continue reading

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Dreamworks

Image: Dreamworks Dream Resolve It was a weekend of squeezing; squeezing all that I could out of the time available and trying to get through as much as possible. There’s a lot going on, both on the writing front and … Continue reading

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Web Development on the Mac

Image: OmniTechNews I took the easy route into the day job yesterday, i.e., I got up at 9am, made some strong coffee and wholemeal toast, and then left the house so I arrived dead on 10. As I said, nice … Continue reading

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Monday and Tuesday Review of the Edinburgh Book Festival

Image: Colin Galbraith Apologies for yesterday, folks. This blog post is a day late due to the attention of a hacker at about 3:10am the night before last (Monday). It would appear that this technical challenged choob hacked into my … Continue reading

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There’s Not a Herd of Wild Horses…

Image: FindingDulcinea.com The weather couldn’t quite decide what it wanted to do on my walk through Edinburgh yesterday. One minute it was blowing a gale and threatening rain, the next it was calm and cloudy. It even went sunny and … Continue reading

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