View from the Potting Shed

Beware: there’s a switch on some laptops that disactivates the WiFi card. It can take some effort to discover it, however!
Last night while I was round at my parents-in-law I said that I’d help my father-in-law set up his new Toshiba Satellite M70 laptop. I’d already been around a few weeks before and […]

Ah! the irony! So many people email me about their problems with PsiWin, the connection and synchronization software for the Psion range of handheld computers, it was about time that I had problems too!
My problem: for some reason during the last synchronization PsiWin copied all my contacts twice, so that I had two entries […]

A photograph of St Salvador’s, Stenhouse as I first saw it. The hall to the right has since been demolished, and the trees across the road have now been replaced by flats.
Today was my final Sunday presiding and preaching at St Salvador’s church in Stenhouse, and I really felt quite sad about it, to be […]

Rich Olyott and Jane Saunders out in Glasgow last night.
What a difference twenty minutes can make.
Yesterday early-evening I accompanied Jane over to Glasgow where she had to hand in her latest MBA essay on marketing within the voluntary sector at Glasgow Caledonian University before 5pm. That we managed with plenty of time to spare.
With […]

Screenshot of Yack Pack.
Yesterday my friend — and infrequent blogger — James Frost asked me how things were coming along with the Yack Pack project that a friend of mine in the States was putting together. Check it out:

When Jane and I were holidaying in California in 2004 we stayed with my cousin Charlotte […]

The current Celtic Frost line-up, featuring band founders Tom G. Warrior (centre left) and Martin Ain (centre right).
One of the first metal bands I ever got into was the Swiss avante-garde thrash band Celtic Frost, thanks to my school friend David Watson; now Dr David Watson, PhD — he did his doctorate asking the question […]

Here’s a page on Wikipedia that I wish more web designers who write UK address forms would read: Subdivisions of Scotland.
It annoys me when I come to fill in an online form that the form designers haven’t done their homework and instead present me with an outdated list of Scottish regions from which to choose.
Living […]