Wiblog - Paul's Wibblings

I was watching a video this week where Jimmy Carr was talking about Sean Lock and Jimmy said, quoting someone else, that you don't really die until your name is spoken for the last time ... and that got me thinking.  read more ...

I'm just back from a trip to Munich using trains and ferries by way of Newcastle and Amsterdam. For the highlights visit the Mastodon account @pauls_trips@mas.to where I posted multiple times a day. This post is largely to get stuff I learned into search engines.  read more ...

For over three years now I've been running a weekly blog for my councillor work over on Substack. You can find it by going to paul.nairn.scot.  read more ...

Everyone is talking about using AI to answer queries so as an experiment I asked Google Gemini a question to which I know the answer. Here's the result.  read more ...

My Christmas present to me was, for the second year running, a Master of Malt whisky advent calendar. So this was 24 30ml bottles of whisky for £119.95 so that's 720ml or about a bottle of whisky in total and for that price it seemed pretty reasonable to try so different whiskies.  read more ...

So here's the story of the trip back from visiting my dad in Hampshire this last weekend.  read more ...

I was reading a post on Mastodon today about migrating from Substack and in the linked article Molly said:  read more ...