View from the Potting Shed

I know you’ve been waiting for it.
Here is the promised wee talk about ducks. It’s been sitting in my blog drafts for a couple of days waiting for a moment to finish it.
“What do you do when you see a duck?” I asked Jane, as I came in from work the other day. “You know, […]

Is there something wrong with my Google Toolbar for Firefox or does Google really not think much of itself?
As you can see from the screenshot Google’s PageRank “is Google’s measure of the importance of [a Web] page”, and Google UK this morning it scored exactly 0/10.
During the last couple of days I’ve noticed it score […]

At last, I’m done — and I’m fairly done in too! — the book manuscript is finished and awaiting posting.
For those of you who may not know, since May I’ve been working on writing an update to the Hodder Education book Teach Yourself Mahjong. The original author, Mr David Pritchard, sadly died at the end […]

The last few days have seen me listening to a lot of thrash metal, death metal and generally rather extreme style music. Check out my Last.fm account and you’ll see what I mean: Slayer, Morbid Angel, Stone Sour, that sort of thing. But most of my listening has been in the car and next door […]

God is good. I know that I’ve said it before, and I’ll probably get a load of comments claiming that God is good anyway regardless of the lovely things he does for Jane and I, and I quite agree … BUT, I’ll say it again: God is good. And this is why:
Way back in 2004 […]

On Saturday night Jane and I got last-minute tickets (from a friend-of-a-friend) to Bill Bailey’s Edinburgh Fringe show Steampunk.
Sadly, it being the Fringe, the show only lasted for a few minutes over sixty before we were ushered out so that EICC staff could make ready the theatre for Jimmy Carr’s sixty-minutes performance. But not before […]

A couple of months ago I realised that I had the Scottish Episcopal Church youth camp approaching, for which I was requiring a PC to work on the daily ‘newspaper’. With various other web-based projects on the go and looming I thought it about time that I invested in a laptop or notebook computer.
So, last […]