View from the Potting Shed

I’ve temporarily disabled blog comments for new posts. Sorry.
Today I’ve received, and deleted somewhere in the region of over 400 blog comment spam messages. I am so angry, and so upset that there are selfish, evil people out there who disrupt people’s websites. I sincerely wish that there was something that we […]

Amazing what an overnight defrag does to your PC. My PC had gradually been slowing down, and it was getting more and more noticeable with frequently-used applications, such as Outlook and Firefox, taking longer and longer to start up. So, the night before last, I left my PC on overnight and ran […]

Last night, I left the PC on overnight and downloaded the SUSE Linux 9.3 Professional LiveDVD ISO file, all 1.4 GB of it. This morning I burned the ISO to DVD and booted it up.
(For those who don’t know, an ISO file is an image of all the files on a CD or DVD, […]

This afternoon, I’ve been reading an issue of God’s Friends, a newsletter from Saint Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco (it’s available as a downloadable PDF file), and have been quite struck by the painting of Olivia Kuser, which is featured in the November 2004 issue.
There is a moving, almost haunting feel to […]

Kelvin’s blog today has a link to the Which theologian are you? quiz. I’m Jürgen Moltmann, seemingly. This is how I scored:

You scored as Jürgen Moltmann. The problem of evil is central to your thought, and only a crucified God can show that God is not indifferent to human suffering. Christian discipleship means […]

I’ve just downloaded and installed the latest version of the Opera web browser, Opera 8.01, and I have to say that I am very impressed with it.

Fast, secure and standards-compliant
In fact, if I wasn’t so hooked on Mozilla Firefox I am certain that this could become my favourite browser. It is fast (loads much […]

Here’s a question posed to me by my friend James:
Do you know if there’s a way of seeing which .inf file a device is using for its driver?

I didn’t, and he didn’t. But together we seemed to work it out, with a little bit of detective work.
See, James is trying to get […]