View from the Potting Shed

Oh, you’ve got to love this screenshot from Sky News:

“Bush: One of the worst disasters to hit the U.S.”
Do you suppose that Michael Moore was on work-experience in the Sky offices that day?
I also received this by the same email:
THE OIL SHORTAGE
A lot of folks can’t understand how we came to have an oil shortage […]

For those of you who didn’t see this rather well-done animation when Rover went … erm, under, earlier this year, here it is:

(I’ve reduced the file size for blog-users on dial-up. You can view the fullsize image (117 KB) here.)
I was terribly upset when MG Rover went into liquidation. Not just because I’m terribly […]

Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 is now available for download.

This is the first Beta release of the next major Firefox upgrade, which is due to be released sometime later this year. (Not bad considering that 1.0 was launched in November 2004.)
This isn’t the final release of Firefox 1.5, it is the Beta 1 version, still […]

Jane is still feeling very poorly. This morning I took Jane to the health centre to have her stitches removed by the practice nurse, who took one look at Jane and called in the duty doctor who whisked her off to her surgery.
It was confirmed that Jane has picked up an infection and has […]

We waved goodbye to the faithful Nightfire Red Rover 414 this morning. The “sleek red Rover” of the Join Me book. The official Join Me car … well, my official Join Me car.
After putting it through the carwash one last time, and hoovering out the footwells (which were minging!) just in case Steve’s […]

Jane is home now. I picked her up from the Day Surgery unit this morning, just after 8am. She was sore. I dropped her off at her Mum’s and picked her up again in the afternoon, after I’d done my service and a funeral.
She’s off to bed now, propped up with cushions […]

I will need to update this blog to WordPress 1.5 sooner rather than later. I’ve just discovered that for some unknown reason I can’t post to this blog from my WiFi-ed Psion 7Book (did I tell about that?!). WP1.5 works fine, however.