Michael S. Clark

One of my friends and ex-colleague’s, David, sent me a link to the blog of one David Weiss who has posted an interesting article about how Microsoft develops applications for the Mac.

Gary has a link on his blog showing the disgraceful state of affairs regarding patents should you wish to develop, for example, an eCommerce solution. It seems that there is nothing that is not covered by some semblance of a patent.

I’ve applied for a pair of free tickets for Radio 1’s Big Weekend. According to the site, the allocation is decided by ballot with a preference on the host region.
I’ll find out by May 9th.
Fingers crossed!

Matthew Kerr, the long time owner and operator of Kerr’s Miniature Railway passed away yesterday after a short illness.
This will be a sore loss to the town of Arbroath; not only in terms of the larger than life personality ‘down at the front’, but also a powerful local voice for the people.
Jill and John, our [...]

Apologies for the lack of updates recently, we’ve been deep in the process of buying a new house. So much to do, and so little time. I never realised the property market was so crazy at the moment. For example, I bought my flat about 5 years ago, and I’ve now sold for nearly twice [...]