Ian Robinson’s Soapbox

So the fabled Guyton guitar arrived this week. I will do a post soon with detailed pictures and comments on the build quality (it’s stunning!). Here is a short noodle entitled First Light so you can hear the tone. This is just a noodle of some scales and chords (including a missed D Chord near [...]

Well that’s another orbit of Sol completed. I’ve now done this 46 times. I’m hoping for another 54. At least!

I wrote about getting lingual braces a few years ago in this post. No Northern Ireland orthodontists did linguals at that stage and I traveled to Portlaoise to get treated by Dr. David Hegerty, now based in Midleton near Cork. It now seems that the Belmont Orthodontics practice in Belfast does lingual braces and also [...]

I’m planning on going Walkabout for 6 months or a year in 2011 into 2012. I’m hoping to spend several months in the USA and Canada moving about via train and bus. Maybe live for a few months in New York and drive around New England, then go to Toronto for a bit, then across [...]

I’ve got enough stuff. I’ve certainly got enough books. Have a look at the picture to see a bigger version. It would take a while to read that lot. So no more books until I’ve read at least 90% of the unread pile. It’s a real and virtual pile. Many are eBooks on Sony Reader [...]

Just added the WPtouch plugin to the Soapbox. This uses a different mobile optimised theme when you hit the site with an iPhone, iPod touch or (apparently) an Android device. I like it. More than just a plugin, WPtouch is an entire theme package for your WordPress website. Modeled after Apple’s app store design specs, [...]

This is a timed posting (I’m actually in bed asleep hopefully) to let the world know that I’ve just completed my 45th trip around the magnificent star we call Sol. Go me

Just want to wish everyone who stumbles upon this blog a Happy 2009. If you want to be where the action is online in 2009 joint Twitter. I think 2009 is going to be very historic for several reasons. Number 1 being the inauguration of Barack Obama. The fact that he is African American is [...]

Like a lot of other people I was really happy to see Barack Obama get elected the 44th President of the USA. I’ve been following Obama’s speeches and policy positions for the last 6 months or so and had come to the conclusion that he would be a breath of fresh air for the USA [...]

Another nail in the McCain presidential campaign effort: US President George W Bush’s first Secretary of State, Colin Powell, has endorsed Democratic election candidate Barack Obama for the White House. From: BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Colin Powell backs Barack Obama

Been critical of iBlogger on iPhone in the past. Testing again with the footer advertisement turned off. Edit with Ecto: Seems to post okay without screwing up my (commercial, paid for) WordPress theme. Adding the location to a post does screw up the theme though. Not sure I’d use that feature.

From Saturday Night Live.

From the Mudflats Blog in Alaska. Heartening news of an anti Palin rally in Anchorage. Quote from the site: Never, have I seen anything like it in my 17 and a half years living in Anchorage. The organizers had someone walk the rally with a counter, and they clicked off well over 1400 people (not [...]

I like to set goals. I’m not that keen on keeping to them, but I like setting them as targets and frameworks to work with. I’ve got a set of personal and work related goals that want to work to over the next few years. Sort of my own personal Soviet style 5-year plan. Work [...]

I think planning a project is ultimately a little like throwing a donut at the moon. You can never actually hit the target, plus you’ll be lucky if you aren’t hit in the face on the way down. From Task Times, The Planning Fallacy, and a Magical 20% on 43 Folders.