Jimi's good friend Dave is a evangelistic exponent of 'Getting Things Done'. I happened across his workflow diagram as it was discreetly emblazoned around his office, and we got to talking about how mine might compare to his, and the relative merits or lack thereof.
Here's the popular one:
And here's what I came up with:
Monday, March 10, 2008
Getting Things Done: An Alternative Model Mark 1
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Inspector Tapehead

MySpace.com - Inspector Tapehead - Glasgow, UK - www.myspace.com/inspectortapehead
Hello. If you haven't heard, I'm in a new trio entitled Inspector Tapehead, headed up by Chris Croasdale of Adam Beattie's Consultants, and Jonnie Common of Down the Tiny Steps. I recommend that you go to the above myspace page for aural delight. Huw Stevens likes it, as does the entire Bulgarian music industry.
R
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Bye bye Snap Anywhere
I've finally removed Snap Anywhere (those little callouts that popped up over links) from this blog because they were really pissing me off, and not being very useful with it. Hope you don't mind, I severely doubt if anyone will.
A web 2.0 mix CD
dBass are doing another mix CD swap, and here are the tracks I'm choosing:
Burial - Distant Lights
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Moon
Radiohead - Faust Arp
Radiohead - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Trilok Gurtu - Kermansah
Chris Clark - Gob Coitus
Chris Clark - Empty The Bones Of You
CocoRosie - By Your Side
Subtle - The Long Vein Of The Law
Röyksopp - Circuit Breaker
4Hero - Hold It Down
Dirty Three - I Really Should've Gone Out Last Night
Tortoise - A Simple Way to Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Some Animations
I made some animations out of my pictures from India, using my new camera's capacity to take many pictures in quick succession:
This is one of my mum.
This is one of my cousin Yael.
This is one of my nephew enjoying his lunch.
This is one of his parents rocking him to sleep.
This is one of Neel getting a face massage.
This is one of all my family at new year.
This is one of everyone at various points over Christmas, taken from the same vantage point each time.
This is one of a spinning top.
This is one of a game of scrabble, this time done using the timelapse function, which resulted in me only being able to compress it into a .wmv, not an .avi as for the other animations.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Lemon Drizzle cake, by Mark - 99ACOAC
Sweet, certainly. also hard and eggy however, diminuitive in size. Not good, I'm afraid. But hey, they can only improve from here, Mark.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Dave's photography site

Yo.
Some of my photos are featured on Dave Green's spanking new photography site, Bezkonca. Check it oot, he's done a great job.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
India Dec 07 - Jan 08
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Musical goodness
Can't remeber if I've posted either of these before. Check em oot.
Dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip - Letter from God to Man
Hard and Phirm - Rodeohead
Friday, January 18, 2008
Monday, January 14, 2008
Ayla's birthday cake by Kasbah, Delhi: 3ACAOC
A very chilled affair, straight forward chocolate sponge with one layer of chocolate filling and chocolate icing, so not very imaginative either. Competent, tasty, heavy texture. It was iced with Ayla's name at very short notice however, which is worth something.
Saturday, December 15, 2007
I've been published!
Well sort of - in a very roundabout, lazy way. Schmap.com is a tourism site with info about Glasgow that they cull from various commons repositories, hence tehy came across my Flickr photos. Its nice to get some recognition!
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Guinness Cake by Dave Green, 1ACAOC
I am hearby restarting the cake reportt in blog form, having been inspired by Dave's cakular offerings last night. We shall have a strict protocol to any cake report, that is:
Title must begin with the official cake title, followed by attribution to the cake author, whether it be man or corporation. Following a comma the cake rating will be displayed according to the official cake rating scale as we pioneered in NYK, where we shall use the Chocolate And Orange Cake from Peckhams as our benchmark against all other cakes are judged. Hence the use of the acronyms ACAOC (after chocolate and orange cake) and BCAOC (before chocolate and orange cake). These are to be used as if one were reading the cake chart as a list, BCAOC signifying a cake that is better than chocolate and orange cake and ACAOC signifying one that is less good. The number signifier preceding said acronym relates to what degree the cake in question is better or less good than the CAOC.
So, as an example Dave's Guinness Cake, which I have given a 1ACAOC is approximately 1 less good than the CAOC, so nearly as good, ie. in the chart it would be somewhere just below the CAOC. Got it? good.
The Guinness Cake was a pleasure to eat, bringing with it to the table the same wholesome quality of Guinness, combined expertly with a dense chocolate sponge quality. In fact quality is the one word that sprang to mind with this cake, which was topped with a luxurious cream cheese based topping - something that were I told it before, I would surely have baulked at, however it weass a resounding success and perfect compliment both in tazste and texture to the cake. The one area where I think there may be room for improvement, and hence why it has to come after the CAOC is in the main cake texture - just a little to homogenous in comparison, I think with the addition of some variation in the form of chocolate chips or something, maybe pork scratchings (on the alehouse theme), it could triumph. But an excellent offering and it did inspire me to file the first cake report in about 3 years, so can't be at all bad.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
First Day Falls
Attempting to film Joel and snowboard at the same time. I knew I couldn't multitask...
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Friday, November 02, 2007
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Monday, October 29, 2007
YouTube - Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip - Letter from God
YouTube - Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip - Letter from God
A crackin' song, (to be expected from the sac v pip combo) with excellent choice of beats.
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
In Rainbows

If you haven't already done so, you should probably go here - but here's the killer question: how much is it worth?
Monday, October 01, 2007
But where's the recorder?
I was listening to The Decemberists' song The Crane Wife part 1 and I couldnt help but notice the similarity to a certain West End denizen's song about a boy with an arab strap...
Uncanny.
entschwindet und vergeht.
entschwindet und vergeht.: May 2007
I have discoveered that Murphy (Dougie) has a blog. It even shows some of his architecturally concerned meanderings. And he has also been doing some performance. Excellent stuff.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Screenwiped
How have we in this flat only just discovered Charlie Brooker's Screenwipes?
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Avast photos from Gilly
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Avast!
Avast!
Add to My Profile | More Videos
Do come along if you can - Friday 14th Septemeber at the Captain's Rest, featuring Wake the President, Atoms for Peace and Tiago Andrade.
In celebration of Mark's borthday, Gilly coming back temporarily and mourning Lu going away temporarily.
Monday, September 03, 2007
Friday, August 31, 2007
Endangered Machinery

Endangered Machinery :: Industrial and Industrial Heritage Photography :: Haiko Hebig
I do like this.
See here too, for more industrial beauty.
via Core77
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Latest Google Toy

Okay, its probably not the latest (i think that must be the Google Sky application which is a whole other post) but this is very very cool. Geo-referenced 3D rendered buildings... Just follow the link above and click on the '3D warehouse network link' then open the kmz with google earth...
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Friday, August 24, 2007
Monday, August 20, 2007
Calgary Folk Festival
Some bands we loved at this years folk festival in alphabetical order. Those we really loved have an asterix or two:
Neko Case
Folk, Singer-Songwriter lady from the US.
City and Colour*
Lead singer from Alexis On Fire (Dallas Green) solo project. Kind of indy alt.
Brett Dennen*
Acoustic, Singer-Songwriter in the vain of Jack Johnson but MUCH better...
Eccodek
Canadian dub with african flavours.
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
From the folk fest programme "Acoustic, Bluegrass, Folk, Funk, Jazz". Cool electronic banjo and drumitar to boot!
The Hummers*
More Canadian Dub, Funk, Jazz.
Paul Ubana Jones*
Blues/Rock, Kiwi Caribbean Londoner.
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Classical Funk/Soul/Gospel with a James Brown esque stage production.
Leo Kottke*
Amazing 6 and 12 string gutiar picking, simply beautiful music.
Nathan**
Possibly my newest favourite band. Alt-country from Manitoba.
Jon-Rae and the River
Alt-Country, Gospel, Rock, Soul...
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Fun, almost Divine Comedy, Cabaret/Big Show band.
TOFU*
A three-piece spoken word/hip hop beat box outfit from BC. Amazing, thought-provoking, at times hilarious, poetry.
Rufus Wainwright
I think hes pretty big at home so you probably know the score, but i was very impressed with his performance, he has a great voice, and he wore lederhosen!
Overall a very enjoyable weekend, see flickr for a handful of pics. The festival is set on an island park in the bow river and you feel a million miles from the city. If anyone has plans to visit calgary you could do worse than to time it to coincide with the folk fest...
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Japanese Sewers
Crooked Brains by Venus
For anyone who watched Teenage Mutant Ninja/Hero Turtles back in the day..
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Newly painted living room
Pictures of the newly painted living room, Rupert St:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/royshearer/tags/flat/
Friday, August 10, 2007
200th Post is Black
This is the 200th post to theSlog, and it comes via Padraig!
When your pc screen is all white (like a word page, for example),
your computer comsuption is about 74 Watt. When it's all black, the
average ist about 54 Watt.
Because of this, a few month ago, Mark Ontlush wrote an article
about the amount of energy that could be saved if Google had a black
background instead of white.
Considering the high popularity of the website, according to
Mark, the energy savings would be about 750 MW-Hour per year.
Answering to this post, Google created a black version of it's
search engine named Blackle.com ( http://blackle.com ) , that works the
exact same way as the original version but uses less power.
Pass it on to friends, family and discussion list...let's all
give our support to Blackle!!
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Consumption without consuming too much
Zero-waste Design now has a shop. Its an etsy shop, which means it was easy, but everythings priced in dollars.
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
I love map
Data Visualization: Modern Approaches
I think this is quite interesting. An article about information representation on the web.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Smile and Say Thanks

Harry + Chris' + Cat + David's play is on at the Bedlam theatre, venue 49 from 13 Aug to 25th Aug, Edinburgh Fringe.
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Questlove on worldwide
I can thoroughly receommend listening again to last night's worldwide, featuring an interview with Questlove:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio1_aod.shtml?radio1/peterson
You may also like to check out:
Ben Westbeech (Dave McCormick know him, y'know)
and
The Heritage Orchestra
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Friday, July 13, 2007
Theo Jansen
I'm not going to apologise for this video: enormous wind powered walking machines, anyone?
There are more details here too.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Sunday, July 08, 2007
YouTube - London Calling - Bike Messengers Race
This is quite fun, although I advise you to turn off your sound before hitting play...!
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Malcolm and Jamie...
The following post contains strong language, expertly used:
Scene. Interior of Malcolm Tucker's office.
Malcolm: He loves Al Jolson
Jamie: The guv'nor
Ollie: Mamee!
Jamie: You take the piss out of Al Jolson again and I will remove your iPod from its tiny nano-sheath and push it up your cock, Then I'll put some speakers up your arse and put it on to shuffle with my fucking fist. Then, every time I hear something that I don't like - which will be every time that something comes on - I will skip to the next track by crushing your balls.
Armando Iannucci's The Thick of It
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Musical things I liked at Sonar
Kazumasa Hashimoto
Black Galaxy
Chris Clark (obviously)
Nicole Willis & the Soul Investigators
Dizzee Rascal
Kode 9 & the Spaceape
Oris Jay
Skream
Spacek & Benji B (basically all the dubstep)
Mira Calix
C2C (great fun)
Flying Lotus
Bubbz & Deadbeat
An On Bast
Tiago Andrade!
some design stuff about my recent trip
Set out to write an update on the zero-waste blog about my trip and got a bit carried away. Was going to post here too but i think a link would be better in light of its length!
Sadly not going to be many photos from the trip and evry few audio recordings too. Guess I was having too much fun catching up with folk - disappointingly little to report anecdotally unfortunately anyway. Will just say that I'm glad I went, and its hard to go back to work 9-5!
Monday, June 25, 2007
Friday, June 01, 2007
Front page news!
Calgary made front page news today on Guardian Unlimited. For all the wrong reasons...
It's a fair comment, but after being here 9 months and seeing a little of what Calgarians can and are doing in regards to climate change and sustainability issues, I'm a little more optimistic that things wont be as bad as Klein makes out. I may however have just caught the Cowtown bug. Yeehaw!
Monday, May 28, 2007
japanese contraption - Google Video
japanese contraption - Google Video
Engrossing ball runs from the Japanese childrens' program, 'Pythagoras Switch'.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Living on the Edge

Urban spread is like no other i've seen in Calgary right now. This is a wonderful collection by the 10 cent designer on flickr that i think describes the spread better than i could ever put into words.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Lost America

Amazing photos and a guide on how to "lightpaint" at this site.
Image: ©Troy Paiva / Lost America
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Monday, April 23, 2007
Eerie view at Dungeness
Friday, March 23, 2007
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."
Donald Rumsfeld
Saturday, March 17, 2007
loo in progress
The collection is here [link might be below photo]:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/royshearer/tags/flatrenovations/
Friday, March 02, 2007
Toutes les autos de Tintin

Toutes les autos de Tintin
Testament to Herge's attention to detail, via Core77.com
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Frightened Rabbit: Sing the Greys: Pitchfork Record Review

Frightened Rabbit: Sing the Greys: Pitchfork Record Review
The Ol' FR get a respectable review at Pitchfork, something thats not always easily achieved. Hooray for the Rabbit! Hooray for Glasgow!
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
The role of Governmental websites.
I have always thought that progressive, democratic societies are built upon fundamental ideas such as freedom of speech and the right to a decent education (amongst many others). Considering both of these points makes me think about the internet.
Everyone has the right to write anything they so wish (as I am doing right now) and publish this on the internet, a freedom of speech that is incredibly difficult to restrict. Educationly, the internet has also enlightened many, even with a crappy 28.8k connection one could imagine that access to material (granted some of dubious educational quality) never before available to some has improved vastly. Corporations, NGOs, Universities and National Governments have all used the internet to their advantage, to inform and to educate the general public in whatever way they wish.
There is the problem however of institutional bias. What an NGO and a Corporation say about the same situation could be hugely different. This, I think, is unavoidable and it is up to the reader to decide who they believe. However, should this be the case when it comes down to websites operated by national governments? Should spin be allowed? I think not. I think there is a responsibility on governments, as the bastions of progressive, democratic societies, to provide the 'decent education' as I mentioned above.
Which is why when I recently checked out the Government of Canada's official Climate Change website I was so sorely disappointed. To be fair, you can eventually get to some musings on climate change after following a bunch of links from one government department to anothers website. But I was honestly shocked that one could simply declare an issue as huge as Climate Change a closed book, one that this government has decided simply to not provide any easily accessible information on. Could you imagine if they decided to not provide any information on HIV/Aids or simply had a page for a website instructing the reader that the site is 'temporarily unavailable'?
Perhaps there is no responsibility on any government to provide free and accessible information on any issue. One could argue with the reams of information on everyone elses website that this would be pointless. Perhaps that is what institutions like the UN are for, but at least, if you have an official page on an issue, maybe it should have a link to that institution?
It's a thinker...
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Adam Buxton but no Joe
Adam Buxton
Well, having spent about the last five days with the flu, I now have a long line in stories of sweating profusely for no reason, and whats good on On Demand. One of the latter is three series of the Adam and Joe show - you know what that means: three opening episodes that you have to pay absolutely nil for! (they're free). So they're the ones I watched, but I know the rest are there for me in moments of boredom, of which there are sure to be many seeing as I am living in one room with an armchair opposite the TV, which is on the fridge. (The builders have started).
Anyway, have had fun reading Adam's blog, which Jonny Greenwood linked to on Dead Air Space. Speaking of whom there was a Late Junction special last night dedicated to, from what I could tell, 'some tunes Jonny probably likes' seeing as they never actually talked to him. Still, it was good.
Monday, January 22, 2007
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
'Compared to this, Iraq was easy'
'Compared to this, Iraq was easy'
Guardian correspondent Declan Walsh reports from Afghanistan, embedded with the 10th US mountain division, in a series of narrated slideshows. Good stuff.
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Flickr distraction
Also, Dave Gorman's Interesting Flickr Coincidences set is quite, wll, interesting.
Friday, January 12, 2007
Soviet bus shelters

Polar Inertia, a photography site has an interesting gallery of Soviet bus shelters, of which this is one.
via Core77
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Magischer Garten: nach acht und vierzig Stunden
Thank you Anneka!
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
The Guy Dawg
Sunday, January 07, 2007
It's Dave!
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/students/profile/573
Wow, you really liked that course, eh Dave?
And here he is again, this time at Culturelab:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/culturelab/people/profile/david.green
Friday, January 05, 2007
Dead umbrella
Monday, December 25, 2006
Festive Greetings!
And as a gift, something I think I forgot to blog about a month ago: Neel's pictures from our climb in Glen Coe, that is Aonach Eagach:
here
Best wishes,
Roy
Monday, December 11, 2006
WebbIE
This from Neel:
Just heard a really interesting interview with one of the members of the cinematic orchestra on gilles peterson from last sunday - new album coming out soon he plays one track as a preview. Forward to minute 44 or 45. (hold down numpad 6 to forward if using accessible listen again (link below))
try this out
http://www.webbie.org.uk/download/WebbIE3.exe
for a standalone version of the BBC listen again for all the radio stations. Saves going through the browser interface (which maybe only I find really annoying) Also installs accessible podcaster and podcatchers. The webbie website also has a really neat interface to project gutenburg for free, out of copyright books.
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Snap
If you're wondering what on earth is going on here the following might explain it:
Snap
Reached via Geobloggers.com, an interesting blog about geotagging on Flickr and Google and the such like and possible intergrations with mobile technologies - very interesting, via the Guardian Technology supplement last Thursday.
Monday, November 13, 2006
I am Kritch
I am Kritch
Richard has pulled out the stops and cemented his web presence (he's a got a website)
Friday, October 13, 2006
theSound updates finally
I have rehashed the front page of theSound a wee bit to reflect the more fragmented nature of my web presence. I still like theSound. But that was then. This is now.
I suspect that that update was for the last time.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Glasgow this week
As produced by Suzy and co.
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Ladakh 06 photos!
I've uploaded my photos from Ladakh. For reference the address is:
http://www.zero-waste.co.uk/thesound/ladakh06
I hope you like the gallery. I chose the music myself. The initial view is a bit small though. If you click the bottom left button, you'll get a larger view of the gallery. If you want to turn off the music, which is likely, its the bottom right button.
Enjoy. I will happily give you a more comprehensive commentary if you come round my house.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Bell's Bridge
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As you probably know, I have been cycle messengering since about May, and am loving it, although today was rather tiring having been off the bike for 7 weeks. Although I think the altitude in India did me good stamina wise, cos my bigger complaint was my sore bum! Anyway, I like couriering because I get to cycle all over the city and see new bits of it and get paid for the privilege. People say it must also be good for keeping fit, but I think the fumes from idling engines negate any beneficial physiological effects.
Today I did a long run from Temple in Anniesland to Sighthill (well, more like Royston) so I took the canal towpath all the way across teh north side of the city centre. I think its pretty cool that thats even possible. I also was at Bell's Bridge at just the right time to see it turning to let a boat through, which I've never seen before. It was much quieter than I expected, judging from teh condition of the painwork - its obviously better maintained inside than out. Also it was just a case of a couple of guys closing the gates at either end and pressing a button on the main mast around which it rotates - dead simple. It did grind a bit when meeting up with the other bit of teh bridge actually, but other than that very elegant!
Sunday, September 10, 2006
MacKinlay enjoying Calgary sunshine
Valley of Flowers
Element Magazine
I wrote a review of the Subtle gig way back in June for my friend Matt who works for Element Magazine and they printed it! Its in the August issue which may be found in selected venues in Glasgow and can be downloaded from the Element website. Its amazing what people will print..
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
The Global Rich List
Have a lok at where you come in the global wealth rankings...
Saturday, July 01, 2006
popcorn ear
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gillyroche/
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Gig Review: Low
Well, so much for resolutions. I've been to quite a few gigs since Battles and haven't written anything about them. Here's what I wrote to my friend Nick about the Low gig on May 2nd at the ABC. My Latest Novel supported:
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I enjoyed My Latest Novel more than the last time i saw them(which was the first) i think they've got better, Paul's calmed down a bit. They played better and the songs were more consistent. I love that loud acapella stuff, its really striking. There's a fairly dark thing to the lyrics i think which i'd never noticed before.
I donn't know Low all that well, just have a couple of albums but really like Trust. It was a nice gig in general cos its so subtle and down tempo everyone was so quiet and attentive. Its a shame the drummer and bass player looked so bored at times! They make quite a noise for a three piece, despite playing very few notes - it was a real lesson in subtlety and craft - the quy was hardly touching his guitar strings - just exciting them at the specific volume
he wanted. A well spent evening, I think.
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Went to see Radiohead at Blackpool (Empress Ballroom) on Saturday. Still mulling it over somewhat, deserves a more extensive review probably. Mind you, there are plenty of other so-called reviews on the fansites already, and some live bootlegs.
Friday, May 12, 2006
My proposal to mysociety
mysociety have called for proposals for their next democratising web application, so I put one in to do with strengthening micro-communities, such as that which should exist in our close here in our Glasgow tenement. Please have a read and leave any comments there.
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
New photos on Flickr
Monday, May 01, 2006
All sorts of wonderful geographic data
"Global-i is a 3-dimensional interactive globe that displays information about the world in your browser. The Earth can be rotated and inspected and displays can be changed to see information in the most appropriate form." from Core77



























