John Lamont

So many startup gems (once unicorns?) snapped-up to overseas buyers. Nothing stays in this country that's valuable. ARM would have been the British chip designer of the world were it not flogged-off under Cameron. on.ft.com/41KTJ15

Refused entry for denying US Customs access to your phone?!? Why not hold passports as most nosey/autocratic countries do! petapixel.com/2025/08/25/e...

As 4 simultaneous Handbrake 4K compressions run Mac Studio's the built-in video encoders, the rest of the CPU's are having a yawn. So impressive M Chip power and efficiency from Apple. They have really mastered top chip design.

Astounding concert on sky arts of Queen at Wembley 1985. Magical.

DHL is the Arnold Clark of delivery services. A business to avoid at all costs.

Excellent show today considering the changing perception of Politicians as they leave office and find their next life.

I thought this sort of tourist tat had disappeared from Edinburghs streets. Nope.

You wouldn’t believe what can be valid email addresses these days. Test yourself in this quiz. e-mail.wtf

Via Variety: 'Guillermo del Toro refused to make #Frankenstein with too much visual effects and green screens: "I want real sets."' variety.com/2025/film/fe...

Back to the V&A Dundee again today. Such a nice place just to sit and watch. A great thinking space.

I heard a broadcaster/podcaster describe Trump as great for business, describing how 75% of his show's content has been led by Trump's emanations. What is tiresome is the amount of similar content on Social Media. Fountains of this effluent splashing-up everywhere. Makes me turn away from SM.

Scottish Water “In total, SW delivered over £1 billion of investment in critical infrastructure last year, whilst also hitting targets for timely delivery. As a publicly owned organisation, every penny of surplus is reinvested into improving services” www.scottishwater.co.uk/About-Us/New...

It is a simplification beyond reason when politicians pull this trick.

@lesleyriddoch.bsky.social Scottish wind farms paid not to generate nearly 40% of potential electricity on.ft.com/4fyNsLB What the article suggests is “Scotland” receives renewable subsidies, my point is who owns Scotland? I bet these payments just flow south, just like the electricity does.

An opinion, but reinforces it understanding government cannot regulate technology or moreover people’s use of it.

www.johnlamont.com/2017/04/typi...

Well worth the modest cost of admission.

I am begging to window that Apple's bog-standard swype keyboard is decorating. It's googleing downhill.

Tones of Stirling. www.johnlamont.com/2018/10/view...

Not sure how I assembled on this Hotel in England while searching in Dornoch, in any case woo hoo 1990's calling for its website back.

What kind of utter rubbishy notification this is for a Scot to receive from a finance app.

Seaweed.

The current FIA President is adding an F to the acronym and we know where that leads to. Tim Mayer will be a far better replacement.

Growing fields.

It was 3-4 episodes of watching Seth Rogan's The Studio on tv before I saw the shooting style of @aiannucci.bsky.social The Thick of it. Similar camera work, don't know how much improvisation, but it made for a breezy increasingly funny series. Not a big SR fan, but I ended-up loving the show.

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Posted @withregram • @thehardcompound A wonderful sight at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. 7 drivers who between them won 14 F1 WDCs, 166 wins and 145 pole positions. Emerson Fittipaldi, Mario Andretti, Sir Jackie Stewart, Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell, Mika Häkkinen and Jacques Villeneuve.

Since I’ve moved from Synology routers and NAS to Ubiquity replacements, their software updates are adding value for a company just entering a mature status.

Sand patterns.

Evening rest.

@steverichards.bsky.social Listened to recent NAO and you said “Westminster reporting doesn’t get it” a comment re understanding of Scottish Politics. Knowing this is what makes you one of the few reliable political journalists with a sommeliers nose. Looking forward to another Edinburgh run.

As ever analysis of why such schemes have failed never look north of Berwick. Scotland’s train service has been in public hands for close to five years. Not one £ is being given to private equity, dividends or inflated salary. And the trains run on time (second best area in the UK, FT).

Delicate flower.

Another page turner from David McCloskey.

The more I think about Christian Horner being dismissed by Red Bull plus two other execs, the more I think there is to the story. Perhaps to the accusations 17m ago too. Either way this is a huge loss for Red Bull, a man who led them to all their success they’ve ever won. Fallow period ahead.

If we ignore the accusations, Horner is the most successful TP on the grid today, well yesterday. An impressive record from Vettel onwards for which Marko takes credit too. However clearing the accusations should not have been done using paid “independent“ investigators.

It is clear that incarceration is the only redress for the Post Office scandal. Anything less is a whitewash. www.theregister.com/2025/07/08/p...

Poppy seed head.

@gpblog.bsky.social With over 1,800 of your “partners” tracking my every step on your website I won’t be visiting your site. Consequently your content will be blocked also because you don’t care about my privacy.

There is something deeply unsettling at the top of the FIA. After the 2021 fiasco it needed re-enforcing not gagged and defenestrated. In whose interest is this man governing the sport? It’s acting more like a dictatorship. Liberty should make some noise. www.bbc.com/sport/formul...

@thebishf1.bsky.social Is there any driver on today’s grid other than Lewis who has part of a circuit named after them? I checked Barcelona thinking Fernando and nothing.

The last sea-going paddle steamer in the world sails the Clyde.

More flora.

More flora.

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