View from the Potting Shed

I was going to post this last night, but I got (a) too tired, and (b) too upset, so I went to bed. Which was fair enough.
I felt quite at odds yesterday, and it was only in the afternoon as I was thinking about it that I began to pin-point that it had something to […]

I love conferences (okay IWMW 2006 wasn’t a conference it was a workshop!) where you come away with little facts like the ratio of the long side of a sheet of A4 paper to the short side is 1:1.4142, which is 1:√2 (one to the square root of two).
A4 paper is genius! It’s an […]

Tomorrow I’m off to Bath for a couple of days, to attend the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2006. It’s a workshop for … well, institutional web managers. Never been to one before, but I’m looking forward to it.
In a change of roles, it’s me who’s going to be away for a few days […]

I know that I’ve not written any more about our IVF journey for the last few months, but there’s really not been anything to report. Until now.
We moved over from Edinburgh to Cellardyke in April, and the day after we moved in we made an appointment with the local GP to find out what […]

A couple of things that have floated my boat this week. (I don’t literally have a boat, it’s just a turn of phrase.)
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Listening to music the other night, I had WinAmp Pro on random play, and from the 9,431 tracks from which it could choose it happened to land on a track called “Don’t […]

This past week a few people pointed out to me this amusing and very clever animation called “Animator vs Animation”. It’s by 17.0 year old Alan Becker.
It requires the standard Flash plug-in, which can be downloaded from Adobe (formerly Macromedia) if you don’t already have it installed.

Screenshot of Microsoft Office Word 2007. (Click image to see larger screenshot.)
This afternoon I installed a few of the applications that come bundled with the Microsoft Office 2007 Professional Beta 2 package that I downloaded a few weeks ago, including:

Access 2007
Excel 2007
PowerPoint 2007
Publisher 2007
Word 2007

There were a few applications that I didn’t install, such as […]