View from the Potting Shed

Well, I’ve gone and done it, I’ve installed Windows XP SP2, which I got on CD with this month’s PCPlus magazine.

A piece of news that was on my old blog (probably still is!) is that Jane and I have bought a house in Cellardyke, Fife.
I say we’ve bought a house, we will have once it all goes through. We were supposed to get the keys a week past Friday (20 August) but there have […]

I’ve been a fan of Jasc’s Paint Shop Pro since I encountered it in version 3 under Windows 3.1, so I was excited to read yesterday that Jasc Software are shortly to release Paint Shop Pro version 9. And not only that: I can try it out for free right now!
Jasc have […]

I wish I’d found this website a few months ago when I was looking around for a good Content Management System (CMS) for a couple of websites I was working on.
I discovered Open Source CMS in an article in last month’s PCPlus magazine. It’s a wonderful site in that it has all the […]

Tomorrow night I’m off to see the Metallica film “Some Kind of Monster” at the Edinburgh International Film Festival…

I’ve been meaning to get around to setting up my own proper blog on this website for ages. None of this using-a-forum-as-a-blog nonsense. I’ve just installed WordPress, which I’m really quite impressed with (so far). Let’s see how this goes…
Right… seems simple enough. I now just have to work out how […]