View from the Potting Shed

Jane and I have tickets for Live8 this evening at Murrayfield. Jane’s really looking forward to seeing George Clooney; I’m looking forward to seeing Eddie Izzard. I’m just a little disappointed that there is no REAL METAL™ on the bill!

I went out on my bike today, for the first time in nearly 2 months.
It’s pouring with rain, but the perfect weather for cycling in, wrapped up in my cycling gear: cycling longs, long-sleeved and necked wicking top, hooded top, and breatheable waterproof jacket. I was like a furnace, the summer rain a welcome […]

Last week I took Skype to the next level and bought €10-worth of call time for SkypeOut. This allows me to make calls, from my PC that is connected to the internet to landline telephones anywhere in the world for a fraction of the cost of a normal international call.
The reason the calls are […]

This August we have a number of guests staying over during the Edinburgh International Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival, including friend Steve Lawson, and his girlfriend. (Maybe I shouldn’t be writing that, just in case there is an onslaught of journalists and fans at the door every morning, like that scene from Notting Hill.)
This […]

Back to work properly in what feels like a month — after getting over the nastiest viral respiratory infection I’ve had for years — and my in-tray is piled 6″ high, with papers and files and letters and stuff!
I’ve got a number of blog entries to finish too, that are lurking in my […]

Last night my website, blog and email all went down around 9pm and didn’t come back online until after 2am; but I wasn’t too bothered about it: this one was planned.
Pipex are currently moving the WebFusion servers from their data centre in Nottingham to a new facility in Leeds; (web hosts call this migration). […]