View from the Potting Shed

For those of you who might care — and I have to say until the release of Microsoft Office 2003 I really didn’t — the Microsoft Office 2007 applications are now in Beta 2 and available for public download and testing. I truly detested every version of Microsoft Word until 2003. Somehow they […]

The general absence from blogging isn’t because I don’t believe in blogging any more, or because now that I’m working as an IT professional, working with websites all day I have no interest in blogging in the evening. It’s nothing like that.
The simple reason is that I’m working to a deadline on revising and […]

I pulled the car over on my way home to take this photograph; I was using our old Kodak digital camera. The drama of the scene wasn’t quite captured, unfortunately, but you get an idea of how enormous and foreboding that rain cloud looked.
What doesn’t come out on the picture was the contrast of […]

Ducks by the Kinnessburn in St Andrews, which I pass each day on my walk to work.
Journey to work
I can hardly believe that it has now been three weeks since I started work at the University of St Andrews. I’ve deliberately not posted much about work on my blog as I’ve been settling in […]

The real Anthrax line-up: Charlie, Rob, Scott, Frank and John.
The last couple of days I’ve been listening to Anthrax’s excellent The Greater of Two Evils CDs in the car on my way to and from work.
I love that album. It collects together a kind of greatest hits of the band, prior to 1993, when […]

This evening I began re-organising my filing cabinet. I began by mind mapping the current contents of my four-drawer stack of organised chaos. And when I couldn’t take the excitement of that any longer I started clearing out my liturgy drawer. It’s amazing the stuff I kept thinking “that might come in […]

“Wait, what’s that? A transport! I’m saved!”
I realised that I’ve not written many geeky posts recently, what with all the excitement of moving and starting a new job. Well, quite honestly, that’s all going to have to wait.
Look! Look what my friend James pointed out to me recently: the new Lego Star Wars II […]