🚀 go-pugleaf

bogus address wrote:
> Steve West has been an occasional poster to ed.general & UK Mac groups
> for a while.  His company's offices were directly above the Gilded
> Balloon venue, which yesterday became the seat of the biggest fire to
> hit the Edinburgh city centre for about 20 years; it was still burning
> this afternoon.  If I saw things correctly through the smoke from the
> cordon a block away at the top of Blair Street, I was watching the
> burned-out shell of The Graphics Company's office being deluged with
> water from two snorkels at once.  Because of its location and the scale
> of the damage, it looks like they'll have to knock the building down at
> once, with the entire contents being a write-off.
> 
> Steve, are you okay?
> 
> Did you manage to save anything? - a graphic design firm must be about
> the most fire-vulnerable line of business there is.
> 
> Anything we can do to help?





Also regarding the fire, Edinburgh University's artificial intelligence dept. 
was apparently hit quite badly:

 >Hi Everyone,
 >
 >I guess that some of you have heard that there was a big fire on the cowgate 
 >at the weekend. Well some of you might be interested to know that Edinburgh 
 >Uni staff got an email today informing them that the AI department on South 
 >Bridge has been absolutely gutted by the fire and the AI library has been 
 >completely destroyed. Rejoice or commiserate according to your experience of 
 >the AI department.

[the email above is not an official release in any way! it was from a friend.]

alex