Steelso’s posterous

Two minutes of rainfall and this marks the end of Glasgow's 10 days of summer.

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The rain's back in Glasgow. No stabbings tonight!

 
 I'm dreading, really dreading T in the Park this year. As I do every
 year. But I always have a great time when I'm there. The line up isn't
 tripping my switches hugely but it'll be cool to see Blur, Killers. No
 Lightspeed Champion or My Morning Jacket this year. Oh well. I'll get
 over that by spending three nights in a tiny tent with Sam. Lucky lady!

Well more heat than sunshine. Hot in Glasgow but no bad. Glasgow goes mental if the heat lasts too long. About 15 years ago we had a spate of 'incidents' on a Friday night after two weeks of relentless sunshine. Makes us go mental. While we're enjoying it though I'm oft reminded of one of my favourite poems that describes the duality of the Scots. That's right. A poem.

Blogging was become a blockage for me. I like my writing time stuff but always felt that the blog demanded some real time and some real content. I din't have the time and not really the inclination. And Twitter was becoming my place to post how I felt, images, stuff. So I've decided to take a looser, more free approach to this. Hence starting up this site and doing the redirect thing. I'm writing this via my email and that seems a bit more friendly than opening up an interface and then deal with the blank page. We'll see how it goes. I am not missing the irony that this is the first blog post I've done in a while and it is about how I don't post in my blog. Hrmmmmm.

As seen on the Metro in Paris. I dare say that Wall Street English now goes something like, "Oops", "Sorry. Really, really sorry", " we have no idea where the money's gone" and "Brother can you spare $34 billion?".

I'm off to a great little thing in a couple of weeks which will be a great little fund raiser for a good cause as well as looking as how the online can carry into the offline. Twestival is a great idea. On the 12th February Twitter users from all over the world will get together in their respective cities for some fun, some beer and some music all in the name of raising money for a great charity, Charity : Water. I'll be heading over to the Edinburgh Twestival and I'm really looking forward to putting some faces to names. And just to see how it all feels. I've always quite liked the wall that exists between on and off line but I think that's also quite a bad habit to go into when you're working in and around the Internet. I think there is a tendency for people who do planning in agencies to make people stats and figures caricatures rather than people with feelings and emotions that shape and define them rather than what way they talk to each other with technology. I'm just looking forward to having some beers with some great people in the name of a great cause. Quick update: Due to my lack of credit card functionality I'm unable to attend. I'm sad not to go but I accept that's the way of it due to lifestyle choices. However I did make a donation to Chartity:Water and I'd implore you to do the same. I'm not a big one for the charidee callouts but even if you have a couple of notes in your pocket I would ask you to donate. Sure, we're living in tough times just now but if we can't offer our fellow brothers and sisters a secure, clean water supply in this day and age, to give the most basic of fundmentals, then we're in worse shape then I dare think about. Twitterers of Scotland, have a great night for a wonderful cause. I'll raise a toast.