While walking around my new office the other day I came across this mysterious wayfinding device.

“You can go in one of two directions”

You can go left and you can also go right. But what will you find?

Ah, now that would ruin the surprise.

I’ve been meaning to get back into making music for a while now. Here’s a track I made over the weekend, called “Birthday”. It’s been described by those in the know as “a bit Cbeebies.”

Alex Salmond resigned as First Minister of Scotland yesterday, having failed to win the referendum on Scottish independence.

He was fighting against the might of the Westminster establishment, the media (no newspapers supported him), the major financial institutions and the vested interests of the wealthy in this country.

His opponents used the weapons they know best—negativity, condescension and intimidation—and did not hold back.

Despite all this he gained the support of 45% of Scots, and a majority in Scotland’s biggest city, Glasgow, backed his vision of an independent nation in charge of its future. To have done so in the face of that level of opposition is a huge achievement, and I hope history will recognise that.

If I was better organised and had more time to spare, I’d collect pictures of dodgy dialog boxes and probably set up a tumblr for them.

As it is, I only take these pictures when I come across a particularly dodgy example. Here’s one.

“Yes to abort, No to continue”

It appeared when trying to buy petrol from a self-service machine. You’re quite stressed in those situations as you sometimes have a queue of cars waiting for you to get on with it. The last thing you need is a woeful piece of design like this that forces you to lay aside your preconceived notions of what “Yes,” “No” and big red X’s actually mean.