nothing but the latest technology at BBC scotland...

today's photo - 1st day filming...

... on the first tv programmes I'm producing - two documentaries covering the abolition of the slave trade, to be broadcast in the autumn. This is one of our expert contributors, in front of a green screen. The garish studio colours are because we were borrowing studio space from a gaelic children's show. Fun!

rachel simons design...

Rach's online shop is up and running... and in my completely unbiased professional opinion, it is excellent. Go on, buy something!

today's photo - handfeeding the chooks...

today's photo - trip to the rugby...

... to see Scotland beat Wales 21-9 in the 6 nations. Not a classic match, no tries, a few moments of excitement, but a really great atmosphere in a sold out Murrayfield. Shame about the incomprehensible pissed jocks sat behind us, one of whom I suspect was responsible for the vomit I had to step over in the bogs on the way out. Match report and video highlights, courtesy of the world's greatest broadcaster, here.

Earlier in the day, England performed poorly to beat Italy. Coverage here. Thank God our wee Jonny is back, scoring 15 of the 20 points, becoming the 5/6 nations highest ever points scorer in the process, beating ugly ginger welsh Neil Jenkins (who is still the highest points scorer in all international rugby).

google spreadsheet of egg production...

... can be viewed here.

As you can see, the cost per egg is plummeting - down to £11. And when recalcitrant Margo gets going, it'll be down before you know it. Athough we will need to spend another £5.50 on pellets soon.

Thanks for the advice Tony - this is a good tool. However, a few things I'd like to see are:

- safari support
- charts
- automatic publishing directly into blogger - there's probably a way of embedding it in the right column, but I'll wait for one of you clever bods to email me the code :-)

PS - publishing HTML from excel is crap - formatting goes to shite.

egg production chart...

Tech note - exported from excel as jpg.

new york new year - photos...

from the top looking north east
Originally uploaded by nicktryg.

I do love it there. Hopefully back in the summer - might be going to an education conference in Altlanta in June, my flights have an option for a stopover... with any luck, finances will have recovered from this New Year trip, man it's easy to spend money.

what is this web 2.0 anyway?

youtube link

quite fun this really.

not blogged for ages. Just found a macos "widget" which makes it really easy, hence the splurge. 

I spent a few nights a few weeks ago trying to make a new site on iweb, but it's not very good. I spend all day making web sites, agonising over what I hope is interesting, engaging content, and what was coming out at home was really really dull. Some photos - which I can do on flickr. A list of current media habits - as if anyone cares, gadget radar... really zzzzzzzzzzzzz. The chicken productivity chart does have legs though, and I will try to find a way of doing that as easily as writing a blog. Any ideas? 

The thing is, those of you who read this know what's going on in life, because you all read the missus's blog. It is totally up-to-date, better written like, and more funny. Don't read this one! Maybe I'll post a few photos or something.