View from the Potting Shed

As a proud wearer of a ThinkGeek Linux t-shirt I found this piece of news interesting; I first read about it in the March 2005 issue of Computer Shopper magazine:
Research at Stanford University has discovered that the Linux 2.6 kernal contains only 0.17 bugs per 1,000 lines of code, which is far fewer than the […]

Driving over to Cellardyke today I noticed that as you approach some towns, on the countdown to the 30 mph sign there are rumble-strips on the road: at 300m there are three strips, at 200m two, and one at 100m before you enter the town. It’s like braille for cars!
Jane and I drove over […]

Today would have been my Dad’s 60th birthday; he died 0n 4 January 1998, aged 52.

This is the last photograph taken of our family before Dad died; it was taken on Christmas Day, 1997

Jane and I sang happy birthday to him, in bed this morning before we got up. Just as I […]

Once a month — on the second Friday of each month, since you were asking — I play in a band at a Christian youth event called Powerpoint. The band is led by my brother, Eddie, and yes it probably is through a bit of nepotism that I’m playing electric guitar in the band, […]

Each Friday the kind people at B3ta towers send me an email full of irreverent nonsense created by people like you and me. Today they drew readers’ attention to the Scared of Santa photo gallery.
These are my three favourites, in reverse order, with comments by me:

#3. This, I reckon, is where the inspiration for […]

It was an exciting day for Jane and me today: our carpets were delivered and fitted in Cellardyke. The two carpet fitters who arrived around 09:15 were fabulous, staying until 19:00 to complete the job. They fitted carpets in two bedrooms, the living room, hallway and stairs, and vinyl in the bathroom and […]

I’ve begun reading PostNuke Content Management by Kevin Hatch
(Buy at Amazon.co.uk / Publisher’s website)
Having struggled to learn any Content Management System (CMS) from online tutorials and half-written documentation I was pleased to read that Kevin Hatch also regards much of the available documentation confusing. (He’s not the only one, Jeffrey Veen vents his spleen […]