Caboose

I just got back from a week up in the northwest of Scotland today. It was Cat and Hen’s 30th birthdays and to celebrate a large group of us spent the week in a former hotel now converted to self-catering.

The main activities were drinking, eating and a bit of walking. It was lots of fun. More later…

[via The Register] An article about the introduction of automated phone boxes in Bhutan.

As a solution to the worries about loss of jobs among telephone operators in Bhutan we could suggest that BT (that’s British Telecom, not the other one) outsource more of their operator services.

[via MeFi] A collection of transcripts from the cockpit voice recorders of crashed aircraft.

Very odd.

Yesterday was the last day of the Folk Festival and probably my favourite day of this year. I finally managed to get to see The WAiFS, after failing to get into the club tent on Saturday night.

They’re an Australian band and everyone had been talking about them since Friday night. It seems (according to Bob Harris’s introduction) that they sold more albums at the festival than any other band.

Flook were also excellent, folk music with flutes instead of fiddles.

This weekend I’m mostly at the Cambridge Folk Festival, lots of good music, it’s not all old men with beards!

Last night I was mostly in the Club tent, they have a lot of variety there because each band usually only gets to play three songs. One of the bands, Note for a Child seemed very keen to give away CDs, you can even get them from the website.