View from the Potting Shed

Yesterday my stereo died.
I’d noticed on Friday that it was playing back both CDs and radio with some degree of distortion, then yesterday it was spontaneously resetting itself, wiping the stored radio channels and the cassette deck (the what?!) was switching itself off, with no cassette in, and making a continuous clicking noise. […]

When my PC went down a couple of weeks ago my trusty Wi-Fi-ed Psion Series 7Book came to the rescue for instant-on web access, email and even MSN.
That was my great discovery the week before I trashed my hard drive, and just in time too. MSN2Go is “the world’s first free web-based MSN client […]

This morning I received a gift in the post. It was from a Joinee friend of mine, Claire. She wrote in the accompanying note:
Hello you. Here is the present I saw in Padstow (hold it to your ear and you can hear the sea) and thought of you - obviously!
So I opened […]

Mum’s Cream Persian cat, Lucy (Pedigree name: Cream Cheeselet) died yesterday. She was 17 years old.
Lucy was originally my sister Jenni’s cat, a present for her 16th birthday. But when Jenni moved away to college in Carlisle and then to university in Manchester Mum agreed to look after Lucy, rather than Jenni taking […]

Do you remember what these are called? Ah, the good old days when you had to install operating systems from floppy disk. For MS-DOS 6.2 it took 3 disks, Windows 3.1 used 6, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 occupied 8 plus one for mouse drivers, while — can you believe? — Windows 95 was […]

Time to upgrade again, folks.
Mozilla Firefox is now at version 1.0.7 — the latest version being a security update.
And Opera is now at version 8.5 — but this time the full application is now free. And it’s a great application; see my review of version 8.
If only someone would either update Opera for EPOC […]

With thanks to James, Mike, my brother Eddie, the world wide internet and my enormous collection of CDROMs I’ve almost managed to restore my Installation partition to its former girth.
Most of my frequently-used applications have been installed and re-customized to my tastes. Just got the arduous task of sorting out my 6-months-ago-My-Documents restored partition, […]