The last post?

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2015-09-20 18:32:00 content?

It’s unlikely that I’ll post more original stuff here. I’ve set up a wordpress blog for photos and travels – new material will go on that.

My photos from 2002 to 2014 photos are busy uploading to an unlimited-space host to get around issues serving them from my desktop Mac. (There’s nothing wrong with the Mac server itself but it’s a PITA keeping its IP address associated with a domain-name, and it goes through a very slow ADSL upload.)

Eventually I will start adding scans of my photo-albums to it – but don’t hold your breath.

I will of course keep checking into here to see what my online friends are up to. But for now, here are my online presences:

Modern street-life is rubb-ish

I regularly cycle to from Queensferry Street to my work at Edinburgh Napier University’s Merchiston campus. Having recently cycled from IJmuiden to Köln, I wanted to compare the two experiences.

In short, cycling in Edinburgh is utter rubbish. There is no way to avoid mixing with heavy traffic. Potholes abound. Cycle-lanes begin and end with no apparent reason, and lane-markings have faded out. Compare this nonsense with cycling in Dutch and German major cities.

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