Archive for September, 2006

I hear the mission bell…

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

Back at work yesterday and I was still feeling a little dizzy and headachy but delighted to be back. Feeling a little fragile, I listened to Delirious? The Mission Bell. (If you don’t believe me just check Last.fm!)
I’m quite particular about the music I listen to: for example, I’m one of these people that […]

What can YOU do in 10 minutes?

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

Gareth sporting an attractive 24 hour blood pressure monitor.
I was all ready to return to work today and then yesterday I got hooked up to a 24 hour blood pressure monitor at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee and that scuppered all my plans for the next 1440 minutes.
The 24 hour blood pressure monitor is like a standard […]

Last.fm for Windows

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

I’ve been using Last.fm for a little over a year now, having been introduced to it by my dear friend Steve Lawson, and it appears to have just got better with the introduction of a new application called Last.fm for Windows (or Linux, or Apple Mac OS X, or FreeBSD, etc.).
Last.fm — both the stand-alone […]

What you’ve been looking for this month

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

The Search Meter WordPress plugin is a plugin that helps you find out what your users have been searching for. The idea is that it therefore can help you to deliver the content that they want. Or it’s just really useful if you’re nosey.
So here are the search terms that Search Meter reports YOU have […]

A slow, but good, day

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

When I typed the word “slow” into stock.xchng this is what I got: an image of fast cars travelling at night!
At last things are improving at Saunders HQ, certainly in terms of my health. My dizziness has almost completely gone and yet I still seem to have about a month’s worth of anti-dizzy pills left, […]

Don’t give a storm a window of opportunity

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

Here’s a top tip for you: if you are going to leave your Velux (roof) window open overnight in your study while there is a torrential storm raging outside don’t leave your Psion Series 7 sitting beneath it on your desk because by the morning it will have stopped working properly.
It’s also not a great […]

I have the brain of a cabbage today

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

Today I appear (at least from the perspective from inside my head) to have the brain of a cabbage. I’m feeling quite dizzy, quite muddled and quite confused. Ironically I suspect that it may be a side-effect of the anti-dizziness pills I’m on.
For example, I was just standing having a perfectly coherent conversation with […]