View from the Potting Shed

I’m posting this entry from my Psion Series 7 (EPOC Web application).
For a couple of days I’ve been struggling to work out how to get my new Series 7 to connect to the web via the Psion Dacom Gold Card (56k+Fax) modem that came with it. At last it has worked! … using a […]

Being geeky has its benefits. I just discovered today that my friend Danny Wallace has a new website design.
I had a look at it. Hmm, that looks nice. I wonder if it has an RSS feed? … no link. That looks like … I wonder if it is running off a […]

I woke up very early this morning — maybe around 4am — and for some reason I instinctively looked over to the Velux window (our bedroom is part of an attic conversion). Which is odd, because I have such terrible eyesight I’m not sure what I hoped to see.
But I did see something: I […]

In February I wrote a blog entry about the free Voice over IP (VoIP) service Skype.
Yesterday, my friend Ricky emailed me asking:
have you discovered www.video4skype.com yet? Nice.
Sounded intriguing so I checked it out. As the name suggests this is a (free) plugin for Skype that enables realtime webcam streaming along with the Skype […]

It’s been a long, long week. I’m still battling this wretched virus that has laid me low for the best/worst part of a month. On top of that I’ve had a rather sleepless week trying to get the new Scottish Episcopal Church website up and running for the start of General Synod, which […]

The excitement of receiving my new Psion Series 7 on Thursday has been superceded a little by the grief of losing my Psion Series 5mx this evening to a broken screen cable. My screen now looks a little like this:

Which, while being pretty and a bit 1970s retro, wasn’t a whole lot of good […]

I used my new Psion Series 7 today to write my sermon for tomorrow. I wrote this one in the sunshine, sitting at a round patio table in our conservatory in Cellardyke. When the midday sunshine grew too bright for me to view my screen (even with the brightness at full) I moved […]