View from the Potting Shed

If I just make a few changes I’m sure no-one will notice.
First of all I’d like to say that my Dad was an Englishman — an Englishman who supported the Scottish Rugby Union!
Did you see it? Did you?! What do you mean “what?”?! I mean Scotland trouncing England at Murrayfield! If […]

Name print for Owen by Katiepie Designs.
Have you seen the AOL /discuss adverts on TV? There are two — you can watch them online too or read the scripts — asking “Is the internet a good thing?” or “Is the internet a bad thing?“.
It’s a genius piece of advertising. We’ve all probably had […]

View of the Royal and Ancient town of St Andrews, taken from the pier.
Start date
Having spoken on the telephone this morning with the Unit Director of Business Improvements at the University of St Andrews, I now have a start date for my new job: Monday 1 May 2006.
I would have wanted to start much sooner […]

Metallica in the studio with Rick Rubin, February 2006. (Photo from Metallica.com.)
After a few weeks with some intense posts about babies, fertility, jobs and the like I’m relaxing with a few self-indulgent posts about my interests … and this evening I just discovered (about a week later than posted) that Def Jam / Def […]

Look who’s headlining this year at the Download Festival at Donnington Park.
Is it 1992 all over again? I see from the latest Download Festival mailing that Metallica and Guns N’ Roses have both been confirmed to headline Download — I still find it hard not to just write “Donnington”.
Metallica and G N’ R famously […]

Close up of the Corsair Flash Voyager USB 2.0 drive.
A few months ago in a round-up review in PC Plus magazine the Corsair Flash Voyager drives came out on top, as robust, reliable and very, very fast. I popped down to my local web browser and picked up a couple of 512 MB models […]

So, today I got up early, finished my interview presentation, drove to St Andrews, had an interview, drove as far as Thornton and took a telephone call offering me the job. Of course, I accepted.
Check me out with my 1337 5ki11z! More about this later. I’m still a little in shock! […]