My new golfing gear

10-9-8................CERN goes live

TODAY at CERN in Switzerland, what is said to be the largest machine ever built, the Large Hadron Collider, will be switched on and – presuming the moment doesn't spark the end of the world as some doom-mongers have forecast it might – the search will begin for a particle that may resolve one of the unsolved questions about the universe: what gives it mass.The still-hypothetical particle is known as the Higgs boson.

taken from the Scotsman 10/09/08

The Oasis

Raising the Dead? - Update!

I possibly commented a little too quickly about the new pavement outside the Ramshorn Kirk covering or even disturbing the graves of the Foulis brothers. In fact, an attractive memorial stone has been placed into the paving. Who knows? maybe they added the stone after reading the comment on this blog!

City Chambers

Taken at 6:34pm on a summers evening and then at 2am the following morning, both images show an impressive, though quite different look to the city chambers building.