View from the Potting Shed

This evening I thought I’d give Star Wars Battlefront another go online. Except this time I ran the dedicated PC server on the bedroom PC, upstairs and tried to connect to it via Gamespy. And look:

it was listed on Gamespy, for all the world to see. And connect to. If only […]

In stark contrast to Steve Lawson’s blog post “What is this, how you say, ‘Kassett’??” where he wrote:
“What is it? Is this some new technology I’ve not seen before? A small plastic box, with a long ribbon inside wound round two spools.
Ooh, I remember - cassette tape! Blimey.”
I’d love this piece of hardware; it’s the […]

WordPress 1.5.2 now available for download from the WordPress website.
Upgrading from a previous incarnation of version 1.5 is simply a case of backing up the MySQL database, backing up the current WordPress installation, deleting everything apart from \wp-content and wp-config.php, and then uploading the new files. That’s it.
WordPress 1.5.2 contains a number of security […]

The last six years or so I have found to be really quite tough, on the whole. The toughest years of my life so far, to be honest. At times I’ve really struggled quite profoundly. When dad died in 1998; as we moved to Inverness and away from established support networks; as […]

Things are slowly returning to normal at Potting Shed HQ. Today we got our dining room back (left) … albeit that it is now harbouring Mum’s PC while it undergoes a full reinstallation of Windows.
James has been upgraded from a futon mattress on the dining room floor to a double bed in the guest […]

We have a couple of friends staying just now for the festival: James I’ve already mentioned, plus joinee Hazel (#1) and her friend Jo, from Devon.
This evening, when they returned from various shows in town, we were joking about how Jo must find this big city a real culture shock from her Devonshire village. […]

I climbed into bed last night, around 1:00 am, and dropped off to sleep listening to BBC Radio 4. As I lay on my back looking up at the sloping ceilings of our bedroom, illuminated by the moonlight, I listened to an extended news item about Sudan, and Darfur in particular, and thought about […]