View from the Potting Shed

I’ve had a complaint. About the blog. Yeah, that’s right: this blog. Can you believe it?!
I got this message, tied to an e-bottle and shoved up my MSN Messenger delivery pipe (I’ve changed the name to protect the innocent):
“[Rude Girl] is bored with all your geek-talk on the blog and requests […]

The Proxim Orinoco Gold 802.11b PC Card that I ordered on eBay arrived this morning. How excited was I, as I tore open the packaging? I fired up my browser, added the MAC address of the card to my WiFi security access panel, popped the card into the Psion 7Book’s PCMCIA slot and […]

I’m typing this from within the Linspire 5 Live Linux distro, which (of course) uses a customized Mozilla browser called “Linspire Internet Suite 1.6″.
I appear to have the tiniest display setting ever. It is ludicrously small, and for some reason I also can’t see the whole screen — the “Launch” button is […]

A couple of nights ago I found on eBay a Psion Series 7 ROM upgrade chip for the bargain price of £45 + P&P.

This piece of silicon magic instantly upgrades the Psion Series 7 to a Psion netBook, giving more memory, unlocking a faster processor speed (upped from 132.71 MHz to 191.692 MHz), and allowing […]

Odd. My PNY Multimedia Card (MMC) was working fine yesterday. I plugged it into my Belkin multi-card reader, copied off the photos, and deleted them after me (I’m polite like that).
This afternoon I took said card with me to Soo and Martin’s wedding. Would it work?! No! It said that […]

We appear to be living in an Iain Banks-esque world at the moment: I think that the linen cupboard has turned into a wasp factory! Sunday morning I opened it to be greeted with six wasps flying out at me, in some kind of mad, chaotic formation. I have to admit that I […]

I have a feeling that tomorrow is going to feel like a long (but enjoyable) day. In the morning, as part of the regular 10 am service, we have a baptism: the grandson of a couple of members of our congregation. In the afternoon Jane’s younger sister, Soo is getting married to Martin […]