Please note that I don’t get the chance to update this page very often. The information may be slightly out of date, so please compare the date with the date this page was last updated: 20 June 2010.
About this website
Thanks for visiting this website. Its purpose has evolved over time. Currently it acts as a depository of some my writing on a variety of topics.
Frequently-visited topics on this website include politics, the media, technology and issues relating to Scotland.
I have been running this website since 2004. It evolved out of my original blog which began in 2002, which in turn evolved from my earliest experimentations with websites from around 2000.
Over the years my writing has been featured in a variety of media outlets. I have also been interviewed for BBC radio a number of times. Find out more in the media appearances section.
My other websites
I have a website, Duncan Stephen, which will be kept up to date with all of my activities.
Scottish Roundup is a regular digest of Scottish blogging and other citizen journalism. I created the website and act as its editor-in-chief, and the site features a variety of guest contributions to ensure that a range of views and writing styles are represented.
You can find my motorsport-related online activities at vee8. This was originally is a motorsport blog with a particular focus on Formula 1. Now the vee8 blog has been closed down, and archive articles are now found on doctorvee.
About me
I am Duncan Stephen, a 24-year-old based in Kirkcaldy. I graduated in Economics and Politics at the University of Edinburgh.
I am currently employed as the Web Editor at the University of St Andrews. Needless to say, the opinions expressed on this website are those of me and their respective authors, and not my employers or any other organisation!
Contact me
Feel free to email me: duncan@doctorvee.co.uk. I welcome all relevant emails, be they compliments, complaints or simply requests for a chat.
Special notice for PR companies
I am happy to receive any emails. But if you are a PR company, please stop and think if your story is relevant to me or what I write about. If it is not, I will mark it as spam in Gmail and I will not respond. I will be happy to receive review copies of products, books, CDs, etc — but only if they are relevant.
Find me on social networks
Again, if you want to add me as a friend on any social networks, it might be best to make sure I know who you are. Send me some kind of notice detailing why you want to add me. If I don’t recognise your name, I will probably deny the request.
A note about adverts
This website runs adverts. I do everything possible to ensure that it is clear if you are reading an advert. Where possible, adverts are presented in a different colour scheme to the rest of the content. I do not necessarily endorse any of the products or services that happen to be advertised on this website. The presence of adverts does not compromise the editorial integrity of this website in any way. If it did, I would remove the adverts.
Comments
Comments and pingbacks are very welcome, but I must look out for spam. If you have never posted a comment here before, or if your comment contains links, I will have to manually approve your comment before it appears. Legitimate comments should appear eventually though, normally within 24 hours.
From time to time the anti-spam plugins I use get a bit over-zealous which means that some legitimate comments do not appear. If you have any problems with comments not appearing, please email me and I will attempt recover it.
This website supports Gravatars. If you don’t have a Gravatar you will be given a unique Identicon in place of an avatar.
Design
The WordPress theme was designed by me. This design uses the 30 Icons set.
And finally…
I should thank Nathan Bennett for coming up with the Dr. V moniker all those years ago. I salute you!
Andy
27 April 2005 17:23
#1
Funky web page design. I like!
Colin Campbell
5 January 2006 11:02
#2
Ah fond memories of Kirkcaldy. Last time I was there was 4 years ago for my Grandad Walter Lumsden’s fundral My Grandparents lived there all their life. He was in the mine until he got lung disease and luckily got a job tending the mine managers garden. He fully recovered unlike most of his contemporaries and lived to 88. My mother was born there and grew up at 10 Roomlin Gardens where my Grandparents lived for over 40 years. Fond memories of walking down the road to the park, going to the pictures, the dairy, the lemonade factory, the pagaent (My grandad always dressed up as a woman to raise money for charity) and going to the Links Market.
doctorvee
5 January 2006 19:18
#3
Wow, nice to see a little picture of Kirkcaldy of the past. I don’t think we have the lemonade factory or the dairy any more — and we certainly don’t have a cinema (although I guess that’s true for most towns now)!
doctorvee » coComment / minor admin stuff
3 March 2006 17:55
#4
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Davo the Bawbag
4 April 2006 09:08
#5
What a superb blog you have!
The more WordPress based blogs I see, the more impressed I am with it.
I may need to investigate WordPress myself at some point.
doctorvee
4 April 2006 12:37
#6
Thanks Davo. WordPress is great. Difficult to get your head around it at first, but well worth it in the end.
Pinksy
1 December 2006 12:11
#7
I like the “my comments elsewhere” idea. Where’s that from? Or did you code it yourself?
doctorvee
1 December 2006 21:42
#8
You can do it really easily using a service called coComment.
Stuart
26 December 2006 13:06
#9
I noticed you enjoy IDM type music, you my be interested in checking out our forums
Regards
Stuart
Electronic Music Forums
Electronic Music Blog
Virtual Scotland
18 January 2008 09:59
#10
Scottish Roundup is cool, I will be watching this closely – there is so much there that I had not heard
Pinksy
4 November 2009 21:13
#11
Nice work with the site design Duncan! Nice and bold. Hoping to take some time off work in December and resurrect mine – it got hacked in the spring and I’ve been too busy to fix it!
Duncan Stephen
4 November 2009 21:14
#12
Hi Pinksy, thanks for commenting. Looking forward to the return of your blog!
Bob Shaw
12 September 2010 02:37
#13
The “9 Percent Growth Party” appears to be a 100% subsidiary of one Neil Craig, a rather sad secondhand comic shop owner in Glasgow, whose ideas of physics, politics and economics are based rather more on the Beano than the more usual suspects. While it’s nice to see a plonker like Neil getting out without an escort, it’s beyond belief that anyone should have to listen to him; in fact, he’s a prime example of abuse of the democratic process.