Hobbies:

• Long distance walking:
• Cornwall coastal way, England (photos)
• Coast to coast, England (photos)
• Camino de Santiago, Spain
• Isle of Arran coastal way, Scotland
• Great Glen way, Scotland
• Slow Food and chocolate truffle making.
• Photography: flickr, old webshots
• Cinema, in Edinburgh throughout the year, and in August at the Film Festival)
• Music, listen to Spotify and Last FM

Some links:

• Become a lifesaver this year. Give blood! Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service

Open source software:
I work and play exclusively with free open source software. Try it out!

Operating systems:
• Ubuntu: linux for human beings!
• Includes most of the software below, or just add with the package manager GUI

For Linux:
• FreeMind: for creating mind maps/graphs, beware, it's addictive :)
• Lyx: easy editor, your portal to latex
• Kile: latex editor
• Dot: for graphs/diagrams > also automatically from files
• Inkscape: for posters
• Dia: for diagrams
• Quanta: html editor
• Kate: quick text/code editor if you are not at ease with emacs
• Jude: UML diagrams editor
• Protege: ontologies editor
• F-spot: photo manager with direct upload to Flikr

For Windows:
• Lyx (port for Windows)
• TeXnicCentre (latex editor) + MikTex (latex for Windows)
• Syn (text editor - forget about notepad)
• IrfanView (image viewer/converter)
• HTML-kit (html editor)
• NVu (wysiwyg web editor)
• X Cygwin (for using unix applications remotely from your Windows pc)