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Vale of Leven 10k

Richard — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:44:02 +0000

I spent this morning up in Balloch, supporting the hundreds of runners in the Vale of Leven 10k, the last race of the 2009 Polaroid 10k series. I’d have been running myself if I’d got my finger out and entered in time, but figured it’s just as important to do a spot of supporting on [...]

Go Ape cancels Pollok Park plans!

Richard — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:10:53 +0000

Absolutely delighted to have just received an e-mail from the Save Pollok Park campaign that gives the marvellous news that Go Ape have withdrawn their ill-considered plans to build a course in Pollok Park. It seems there was an important change requested by the National Trust for Scotland, which meant new planning requirements (as well [...]

Shawlands Town Centre Survey

Richard — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:38:52 +0000

In January last year, I headed out into a gloomy Glasgow evening to attend the a public meeting on ‘the future of Shawlands’. A lot was said, but at the time I was concerned it was all, er, hot air. I finished my write-up with this: This meeting seemed to agree at the outset that there [...]

Theory and Practice of Relational Databases website

Richard — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:22:19 +0000

A good few years ago I contributed a couple of chapters to the book ‘Theory and Practice of Relational Databases’, which was the set-text for a number of university database courses. We setup a website to compliment the book for errata and so forth. I do still rather chuckle at the disgruntled student review on [...]

Political reform

Richard — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:27:05 +0000

Anybody visiting my website over the last few months would be excused for thinking it’s a running website. There was a time when I was motivated to write more about politics, and to write more about technology (the original purpose of this weblog). All that’s fallen by the wayside in the face of my training [...]

2009 Wells Fun Run 10k

Richard — Sun, 24 May 2009 17:17:03 +0000

I’m currently down in Somerset doing a spot of house sitting, and keeping an eye on my Gran, whilst my parents are away on holiday. Naturally, as my previous post suggests, I’ve been keeping up the running and a local 10k – the Wells 10k Fun Run – organised by local running club Wells [...]

Hashing again with MH4

Richard — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:45:14 +0000

I took part in the 517th Mendip Hills Hash House Harriers hash (and my second – the first was on Christmas Eve, 2007) last night, starting at the Crown at Wells, Somerset, whilst I’m down here. My 2nd hash, and an opportunity to explore my local town – made famous by a certain Edgar [...]