View from the Potting Shed

Yesterday I ordered a couple of Corsair Flash Voyager 256MB USB 2.0 flash drives from Savastore; one for me, one for Jane.
This morning they arrived at 09:00. Review to follow.

The scene from my study window at 09:05 this morning.
What a fickle climate we have. Yesterday morning at this time it was snowing. Twelve hours ago I was skating across the pavement outside Jane’s aunt and uncle’s house, legs and arms waving about wildly as I tried to regain my balance. And […]

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Ages ago I signed up for a few of the Microsoft emails, including the Exploring Windows newsletter, and this is what arrived today. I suspect that a few of the Microsoft employees were smoking something hallucinogenic when they composed this photo montage that arrived in my email inbox a few minutes ago.
It […]

I’ve just ordered a couple of Corsair Flash Voyager 256MB USB 2.0 flash drives from Savastore; one for me, one for Jane.
Up until now we’ve made do with CD-R discs, or Compact Flash (CF) and Multimedia Cards (MMC) to transfer data between PCs. But a USB flash drive would certainly be more user- and […]

… and it keeps on snowing.

The scene from my study window at 09:15 this morning.
It’s snowing!
Jane is currently on the telephone to some colleagues in Elgin, Moray cancelling a meeting she is due to attend at 16:00 this afternoon.
We watched the latest BBC Weather video forecast online which spoke of sleet, snow and strong (60 mph) winds. And then […]

Having been listening to Lamb of God in the car, I did something I’ve not done in ages: listened to as much of one letter of the alphabet as I can in a day.
I came home from dropping Jane off at work, fired up WinAmp and started listening to Incubus.
And then Infectious Grooves, Insania, Iommi, […]