View from the Potting Shed

It was getting beyond ridiculous! This evening I received 54 e-mails of blog-comment spam requesting moderation.
I’ve now installed an anti-spam plug-in. Here’s hoping…

How annoying! I’ve just spent about an hour trying to remove all the spam that I’ve discovered littering this blog. I didn’t realise that people were so low as to spam people’s blogs, but it seems to happen. At least, they did it to mine! There were at least two spam […]

My cousin Alan (Brodie) gave me a call this morning; he had a day off too. So we met up at Tollcross, grabbed some lunch and went to see the Metallica film Some Kind of Monster at the Cameo cinema. I’d seen it before, but it was still good to see it again. […]

This evening Jane and I watched “Should I Worry About… The Office?” on BBC1. They explored this worrying fact:
Did you know that a study in America found that the average office desk can harbour up to 400 times more germs than the average toilet seat? If your desk is dirty, you could catch colds, […]

I’m am more and more convinced that Cascading Style Sheets (CSS2) are clearly the way forward with regards the future of the design of web pages. It’s just such a shame that it takes such a relatively long time to learn how to use them to their full effect.
What is more frustrating is that […]

I helped my brother, Eddie, move house today, from South Gyle to South Queensferry. It’s a long story but after a nerve-wracking few months waiting Eddie and Rebecca finally managed to sell their flat in South Gyle — the first buyer pulled out the day before the missives were to be exchanged, and the […]

The dullest blog in the world (www.wibsite.com/wiblog/dull/) actually makes for compelling reading.
I noticed I liked the dull blog website so I opened up my Firefox web browser and added an exciting link to the dull blog to my own blog. I then pressed “Publish” and closed the browse…