View from the Potting Shed

Over the last couple of months, whenever I have taken out my Psion Series 5mx in public there has always been someone who oohs and ahhs over it and asks if this will be the next big thing. They’re often quite surprised when I say that it was manufactured over seven years ago in […]

The good news is that BT technical support telephoned me when they said they would. The bad news is that I missed Ross Noble Live on Radio 4 as a result of the call. Oh yeah, and I still have a broadband connection problem.
Here’s what happened. I received the call from someone from BT support, […]

An IP camera (or ‘network camera’) is, as the name suggests, a camera attached to a network. Who would have thought it?!
One of the advantages of a network camera is that its image can be viewed from a PC from anywhere on the network; one of the disadvantages of a network camera is that […]

It’s never straight forward, is it?! Less than a week after I thought my PC had bit the dust, my broadband connection is now less stable than a rickety old shack that houses horses.
Every … so often (somewhere between 1 minute and 3.5 hours, so far) the DSL connection will drop on my BT […]

At last! I’ve finally finished this year’s Guide to the Calendar and Lectionary of the Scottish Episcopal Church in a format that allows this information to be imported directly into Microsoft Office Outlook.
The calendar runs from the First Sunday of Advent which was … ahem! Sunday 3 December 2006. The hold up, however, was […]

You may have noticed the other day when I posted the same picture (above) on my blog that my two CRT monitors sit on top of matching monitor risers. I found pretty early on after getting a PC that I felt much more comfortable sitting at my computer if my monitors were sitting up […]

This arrived for me by post this morning:

It’s a ticket to see Celtic Frost and Kreator in concert in Glasgow in March. Two seminal thrash bands from the 1980s that I’ve wanted to see live for over 20 years.