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Of robots, earth from space and bullfrogs
Gaberlunzie has always had an enormous fondness for robots from the earliest Ridiculous ElectronicDevice which he was warned never to stand near unless he had personally programmed.
Dyslexie font and a blandishment of books
Books from authors Dick and Felix Francis and Jame Robertson published by Penguin carrying interestingly similar graphic schemes, in a one fit all approach, though the content differs considerably.
'The Art of Fixing Things' by Canadian, Lawrence Pierce is for the home repair novice, with tips for car maintenance and general tool guide. None of these however as yet make use of a new font from Netherlands Studiostudio which has released Dyslexie for the dyslexic challenged readers.
Happy New Year computing Scotland
Gaberlunzie was mulling the problem of summing up 2011 and looking into 2012. As ever, Google to the rescue with its New Year Doodle simply dropped 2011 into YouTube. It's a lot to digest, heart-breaking and jubilant, in fact everything everthing that's human.
Apps from purring fur to mad lip words
Gaberlunzie delighted to see Let it snow is still there today, on screen but thankfully not on window!
Virtual snow and season's greeting
Gaberlunzie was fossicking around for things to amuse hard working technologists, wising them the best over the festivities and the happiest leap into 2012 yet looking for some small doodling plaything for your stockings.
Hands on substrate surface preparation
With IEDM having splashed new developments across the semiconductor world pages, Gaberlunzie browsing around book titles, was delighted to discover that a Scottish livewire, Max Robertson with decades of industry experience has produced the "ne plus ultra" of "Substrate Surface Preparation."
Noyce gets Google Doodle
Google commemorate Robert Noyce's December birthday of 12 December, 1927
Try out Stick men and Email game!
Friday is a good day for clearing up desks, sorting out emails and if there's any time - go on, it's when you can actually 'make' the stuff - play games. Gaberlunzie has lined you up a couple he thinks are great!
Shopping for an Advent calendar?
How about the Neiman Marcus offering for a mere $4,950 of the "Highland" Advent calendar created by the MacKenzie-Childs company. Established in 1983, and located on a 65-acre dairy farm in Aurora, N.Y "alongside a small herd of Scottish Highland cattle, hens, and a duck pond, the artists create ceramic tableware, furniture, and home accents by hand using time-honoured techniques.
Whose got Big Ambition then?
Some 32 companies have grouped together in the launch of Big Ambition Scotland website which takes place at Microsoft on Wedesday. Actually there's another BigAmbition but it is a co.uk site. The reason for a BigAmbition Scotland site? Simple. 400,000 new IT professionals are needed over the next FIVE years to meet Scottish business demand. But industry has a problem. Young people have been turned off by the sector. So now it's all out to start ringing the changes.
Rediscover the Scottish face
Gaberlunzie was overjoyed to be asked if he would like to come to visit as a Friend of the Scotland's National Galleries night to see the newly renovated National Portrait Gallery, officially opening on 30th November and viewable by the public from December onwards.
Accounts & productivity: two for SMEs
If your time as a small business is limited for book reading, one of the more essential is Finance for Small Business, and if your business consists of more than one man and his dog, you might take a look at the Asana workplace productivity offering.
Devil in the detail: food and wine
WineDemon, instant wine inspiration when needed, has launched into the UK just like Nouvelle Beaujolais used to in the pre-winter glooms of Scottish supermarkets with a future thought of mulled wine. At the same time, in the US the crowd-sourced PlateMate offers up nutrition expertise for the gourmet and some interesting aspects in the details of crowd sourcing.
Pitcom chairman has last word
The science & technology committee was hearing evidence on the appointment
of a science advisor to the Treasury. Gaberlunzie felt his Monday had really made favourable progress, when he was sent the following little repartee to cheer up his high technology readers.
Halloween: trick or treat passing
Alas the days of "trick or treat" in a dark night or under a wet sky or sometime even the moon and stars, performing for sweets or fruit and sometime even pennies. As Google suggests, that classic day is gone. We are become sadly merely the flicker of film material in video which included a Santa Claus!
World Whisky crown: Old Pulteney 21 year old
The Pulteney distillery in Wick, Caithness, scored a record-equaling 97.5 points out of 100 for its 21-year-old Old Pulteney single malt as 2011 top world whisky. It is only the third time that a single malt has ever won the prestigious award, and just the second Scottish distillery to do so.
Declare yourself missing
"Missing here and now" reads the link that drew Gaberlunzie's curiousity.
E-commerce: design & functionality
Many e-commerce sites don’t pay attention to design, but prefer to focus on functionality. However, here some 40 samples of e-commerce websites put the focus on design and functionality in equilibrium, recommended on every site, as a sine qua non condition of modern web design.
Register here too!
Noticing the mention of Nessie in the current Electronics Weekly, Gaberlunzie is passing on the good news that readers of ComputeScotland can register below to win a chance at a bottle of Dalmore as well as their free Financial Times benchmarking reports on a range of industries that demonstrate Scotland's competitiveness.
Pitoti and GeMMA: accoustic graphics
If you missed Palæophonics in Edinburgh in May, and you just happen to be in Austria this month for Europe's researchers night on 23rd (which alas doesn't happen in the UK) St Pölten University of Applied Sciences is showing a musical and cinematic experience in 3D or the premiere of the technically demanding media opera "Echoes of the Echoes. " And anyone who deals with music for film know that St. Pölten is the originator for the invaluable Generative Music for Media Applications (GeMMA).
AI alert for summarizers
Gaberlunzie is devoutly in love with the Berkeley Summarizer. It can actually spell!! He was being idle. Well a slight amount of sunshine, a bank holiday and a missing editor was all he need to DEMO IT!
Make your Monday
Google pays an amazingly wonderful tribute to the fabulous Freddie Mercury for his 65th birthday in the singing animation of the Queen's 197t8 hi, "Don't Stop Me Now."
Business organisation: how to dig a hole
Gaberlunzie brings you a celebratory laugh for the 1st of September with immense thanks to both Selene and Duncan.
UK gets e-petitions: come on KILTR!
Nothing new about e-petitions, Avaaz has long proven how effective the system can be. What is new is an e-petitions website to give UK citizens a voice to make government more accessible through online petitions. It coincided appositely with the UK riots, and traffic to the site peaked at 5000 hits a minute as disgruntled citizens voiced their opinion and created over 8000 petitions in two weeks. The largest petition to date with over 220,000 ‘signatures’ (as of 29th Aug) is one calling for convicted rioters to lose their benefits after a series of riots ripped across the UK. Perhaps if Scotland did something similar it might get its concerned citizens vocalising their attitude to the Edinburgh trams debacle!
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