Yesterday evening, students from Scotland’s four Centres of Excellence in Music gathered in the City of Edinburgh Music School in Broughton High School to share some fine performances. This was one of the highlights - the young Craig Paton from City of Aberdeen Music School performing Lizst’s Hungarian Rhapsody. Thanks to Craig for permission to publish.
And here’s a funnier version
Interesting news from Downing Street. It has announced that it intends to make most Ordnance Survey maps free for use online from April 2010.
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web appears to have convinced Number 10 that this is the best way forward. For anyone who has read of my own problems with the OS, it will be obvious that this is a very welcome development. It remains to be seen, however, if it will actually happen or whether the OS resist the idea.
The scope of the proposal is impressive - in total over 11,000 public datasets are to be made available including, from the OS, electoral and local authority boundaries, postcode areas and mapping.
Full story at the Guardian
But why no reports of this in the Scotsman or the Herald?