The Scottish government have just spent £125,000 on a new national slogan to be used sell Scotland to visitors, and the best they could get for their money was

“Welcome to Scotland”

Hardly what you’d call imaginative.

Reckon they were better off with their previous slogan

“The Best Small Country in the World”

I’d have happily made a few suggestions if they were willing to throw some of that cash my way… how about

Scotland: More than just kilts and bagpipes

or

Scotland: Just like haggis, you might like it once you’ve tried it

I sure they could have done better than “Welcome to Scotland” for that sort of money.

I’ve been trying to get mobile blogging working here so that I can post from my newish mobile¹ , however I hit a slight snag with my host ISP bouncing email sent from my mobile’s email account. I think I’ve devised a work-around and this post will test if it’s been successful… here’s hoping.
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1. Sony Ericsson M600i [↩]

Just watched a couple of repeat episodes of ABCs “Standup!”, which was hosted by Meshel Whatsherface… I know her name is Meshel Laurie, but what is her face?
Seriously though, watching this made me really miss “The Big Gig”, which “Standup!” was supposed to be a rehash of, except Meshel wasn’t as funny as Wendy Harmer on “The Big Gig” and considering how unfunny Wendy Harmer was would suggest that Meshel was really unfunny.
At least the acts on “Standup!” were quite good… especially liked “Flight of the Concord”.
ABC should bring back “The Big Gig”… but who would host it? Corin Grant, perhaps? .

Just watched part of the 2nd semi-final at the Women’s World Cup between Brazil and USA, and while the standard of play was quite good, the standard of refereeing was far from acceptable.

Handball in the box not spotted, denying the US of a penalty; a clear corner not given because the US defender fell over as she kicked it; the US goalkeeper blatantly stepping outside the penalty box while kicking the ball from her hands yet no free kick paid.

Now, the men who refereed last year Men’s World Cup were refereed last year Men’s World Cup were far from great… I remind you of the farce which was the refereeing in the Australia vs. Croatia match, but the mistakes I witnessed tonight would not have been seen made by a parent refereeing an Under 8s match on a Sunday morning… and most definitely shouldn’t be made at the World Cup level.

(apologies for any errors in spelling or grammer, but this is my first “mobile” blog posting).

A week or so back, I happened upon a great design related site by David Airey, a graphic designer based in Scotland (I think). I was admiring his logo designs and reviews and I was thinking how this is was exactly what I wanted to do with my site (i.e. logo design reviews etc - I have a couple of reviews in draft from my hiatus).

Anyway, while browsing his site, I came across a post about his $4,000 blog anniversary prize draw. Now, I had intended on making his site a regular fixture on my blog reading schedule, but if I’m able to put myself in the running for part of the $4000 giveaway by subscribing to his RSS feed and writing a post about the giveaway… hell, I’m up for that.