September 2008

I’m trying to sort out one central TM site which would bring together all the blogs, Myspace, Radio Scotland, Facebook, music, videos and pictures…I thought WordPress would do it, but maybe not….anyway, I’m working on one of those build-your-own-website thingies using a provider called Moonfruit, and they’ve given me my own domain name – www.tommorton.eu.…

Speaking to an old pal at the BBC yesterday, John Carmichael, who is now something incredibly senior and has sorted out the gremlins that were causing major problems to the show. As noted below, The Radiocroft’s ISDN line has proved too unreliable to risk with a daily two-hour live radio show. However, the long-standing fallback…

See what you think…if this doesn’t put you off, nothing will…who else would trail their work with a glossary of alien words…I feel like apologising on his behalf. His publishers must be beside themselves. Very funny, Neal… Browse Inside this book Get this for your site

http://www.verdier.ca/ Alas, not in production anytime soon, I fear. Click here.

It’s a short comic tale from the Croatian artist Darko Macan and writer Tihomir Celanovic, translated, helpfully, by a friendly blogger. http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/5408800.html

I’m five months into my seventh year of presenting the current manifestation of the Tom Morton radio Show, and the majority of my daily broadcasts have come from The Radiocroft, a small cottage in the north mainland of Shetland. This has been possible due to a technology called ISDN – Integrated Systems Digital Network –…

Moments after these pictures were taken, we had thunder, lightning, then power cuts and probably the frying of ISDN lines. I haven’t checked yet. Too busy with generators and fetching curries.