No decision is hardly a surprise to anyone, though I was expecting it to be a little closer than it turned out to be.
Personally, I've hated most of it, for the entire time it's gone on. Mainly because of Nationalists. It has seemed to me that if you're not dealing with a petty one (and the SNP share more than a few traits with, say, UKIP) you're dealing with a slightly differently petty one who really cares about the size of their home nation state.
But as always when you give an aging population the choice between the dickheads they know and the dickheads they don't, they choose the familiar idiocy every time.
One thing it did highlight was how much the main political parties share in common, i.e - being rather conservative. Not that I'm implying the SNP are somehow magically more competent (they aren't) but at least they've got a relatively progressive idea of society. I'm reasonably confident that one of the main reasons for a no vote was Salmond himself. He was never the best choice for something like this, but like many things in life shit isn't done by the best, most suited and competent person, it's done by the clown with an ego and power issues.
Anyway, it's all over now, everyone can go back to not giving a shit about Scotland, Ignoring Wales and getting twitchy when those Irish fellas ask about their referendum.