View from the Potting Shed

I’ve decided! Enough is enough. I’ve run my blog under WordPress 1.2 for long enough. I need to upgrade to the latest version, WordPress 1.5.2. And the sooner the better.

One reason is that I’m currently deleting over 200 spam comments a day, and that’s even with Spam Karma 1 installed, and […]

On Friday Jane surprised me by coming home for lunch, en route for a meeting in Perth. I’d just received news of my job interview and Jane wanted to give me a hug. But we had nothing in the house so took a wee trip along the road to the Scotmid (Co-op). […]

My good friend David Meldrum complained about my last-but-one post about my PC problems. He wrote in a comment:
In future, can you also post an alternative entry on topics like this in a ‘for dummies’ style? I undersood nothing there… I want to join you on the rollercoaster of emotions that is your life […]

Last Friday (14 October) I went for a job interview at Heriot-Watt University. Yesterday morning I received a letter thanking me for attending, saying that the standard of applicants was high, but that I hadn’t got the job.
The job was for the post of Web Editor, initially a task of dealing with the backlog […]

I just about to install Battlefield 2 to my PC this afternoon when I was intrigued by the “EAsy Info” option on the Autorun installation menu. I clicked it and discovered that it was the “Electronic Arts System Information Utility”, an application that quizes your system to see if it meets the minimum specs […]

I decided that enough was enough and so this week I are been mostly … rewriting the exNYCgb website.
The design is very similar to the NYCGB website, which is handy since the exNYCgb website for ex-members of NYCGB. The whole site so far has only taken about 10-12 hours to build, which is remarkably […]

You’ve got to love the internet. Not only can you download almost anything you could ever want, ever — legally or otherwise™ — but you can also chat to your friends while they are online too, using Skype or MSN Messenger, or both.
Here is my friend Steve Lawson looking all geeked-up:

… and just to […]