View from the Potting Shed

The Psion Series 7 as featured in PC Plus magazine, November 2005.
The Good News: The Psion Series 7 appeared in this month’s PC Plus magazine.
The Bad News: It was in an article entitled “Tech Misses”. It came in at number 48 out of 50. Here’s what they had to say:
PSION’S FINAL HOUR
Psion Series […]

On the left the Prima Official Star Wars Battlefront II Game Guide, on the right Simple Solution Cat Stain and Odor Remover.
After I took five boxes of rubbish to the recycling centre at our local Tesco, I popped next door to Pets at Home and PC World for a couple of essentials. In both […]

Great news! Firefox 1.5 has been released today. Head over to www.getfirefox.com to download it (5.0 MB).
Seemingly (according to my lovely, getting-geekier-every-day friend James Frost) Firefox 1.5 is exactly the same as Firefox 1.5 RC3, which means that they obviously didn’t find any other major bugs since Release Candidate (read: nearly finished version) 3– […]

The Scottish flag: a blue field with a white saltire. (Artwork by Gareth J M Saunders.)
Today is the feast of St Andrew, apostle and Patron Saint of Scotland (and Russia and Romania). The special ‘collect’ prayer for today:
Almighty God,
who gave such grace to your apostle Saint Andrew
that he readily obeyed the call of your […]

Pile of patchwork quilts, in black and white. (Photograph from iStockPhoto.)
A couple of days ago someone got all politically correct on me while I was talking about ‘coloureds’.
Walking in on the end of my conversation he pulled me up for my vocabulary, “They’re not called ‘coloureds’ these days, they prefer to be known as ‘blacks’,” […]

I don’t think I ever want to see this screenshot ever again!
I’ve now lost track of how many hours I’ve been bookmarking this flippin’ PDF of the Code of Canons (see yesterday’s blog for details), but it must be at least 24 hours.
I’m now losing the will to live!
UPDATE @ 22:55
I finished the Canons about […]

Sign spotted at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
This afternoon Jane and I had an appointment at the Human Genetics Department at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh. Now that we’re on the IVF waiting list, and given that I have a kidney condition called Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD), which has a 50% […]