At 5am on saturday princes street in the middle of Edinburgh will close to all traffic for work in preparation for the trams. I predict chaos.
This time round it is even more frustrating because the contractors won’t even be starting work immediately, they’ve demanded more money from the council, and the council have said no. [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Tramworks or How to Bring Edinburgh to a halt for no reason
Posted in Scottish on February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Do something
Posted in life, lifehack on February 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is the best advice I’ve heard I think on “the secret to success”.
Do you agree?
Budget Through
Posted in Scottish on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The scottish budget passed this afternoon, after it was defeated last week. This is no insignificant thing, £33 Billion at stake. But also the whole minority government project.
Last week, SNP had got the support of the tories and the 1 independent, but failed despite dramatic last moment promises to get the greens on board. This [...]
Not knowing the solution: Not knowing the problem
Posted in life, musings on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Trying to make the world/Scotland a better place looks ostensibly straightforward. Find the problem. Work out the solution. Apply.
Of course, life isn’t like that at all, so often we can barely work out what the problem is (sure, lots of people are in fuel poverty, but why are they?), let alone work out the right [...]
Losing Capital
Posted in life on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It has been interesting watching the flow of capital at my work the last couple of weeks. No money, you’ll understand, but political capital, and also good will capital.
I think good will capital is underrated by a lot of people. It’s your ability to get someone else to do something, and normally relies on people [...]
