I notice I’ve been going way over my bandwidth limit, so hurrah for this opportune post from Chris, which directed me to guidance on compressing web pages. Hopefully, I’ll see at least a big drop in my bandwidth usage as a result.

I’ve added a “Best of…” link to the left-hand sidebar. The new page is designed to group together some of the better posts from this blog to separate them out from all the random dross about what I had for dinner, etc.

(By the way, Delia and I made a smashing roast pork with apple and rosemary on Monday night. Really nice.)

So, yeah, if there were any posts you think are worth flagging, please let me know here or in the comments of the relevant post. Ta!

Spent a lovely afternoon/evening in Glasgow on Saturday with various fellow Scottish bloggers (yes, I know I’m not Scottish; neither were most of they). Having stopped in at an easyInternertcafé on the way to do a spot of blogging (and to explain the use of word spacing and capitalisation), I arrived at a pub called Babbity Bowster around 3pm. If you like a pub filled with an ever-expanding group of folk musicians playing in the corner and regular interruptions for a cappella* songs – and the pub really was silenced – then this is the pub for you. If you do.

Despite occasionally being distracted out by fiddling (stop sniggering at the back), I had a great time drinking with these complete strangers. There was organiser Gordon (hurrah for Gordon); fellow geek Richard; Gunnella, who taught us Icelandic pronunciation; Chameleon, who taught me the useful German phrase for "My friend will pay" and who, it turned out, I’d seen on University Challenge but a few weeks earlier; Peter of Naked Blog fame, who offered me what purported to be a vitamin C tablet which I gratefully accepted despite having met him ten minutes earlier; Neil, of Neil Writes the World, and Corrinne of Little Blue Teacup. Judging from the match report, I missed Steve and Svetlana, who arrived shortly after I headed off for a Chinese.

Neil has written about Saturday in his Daily Record column. Now, who could have brought up the subject of Doctor Who?

[* spelling corrected via]

Some odd searches that have brought people to my blog over the last day or so:

1. victoria wood sandra yoghurt (that creates all sorts of unwanted images)
2. r2d2 “deep roy” (no, it was Kenny Baker)
3. sue johnston sun microsystems (I can’t think of Sue Johnston without picturing her shouting “Slade!”*)
4. rose tyler’s ring (see 1)

(* If you don’ get this, you should be grateful for small mercies.)