View from the Potting Shed

On the subject of Microsoft Office applications, why is there no option to enter colours in Microsoft Publisher in Web hex format? The only options are:

RGB (Red, Green, Blue)
HSL (Hue, Saturation, Luminance)
CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK)
Pantone®

I can’t be the only person who mocks up Website designs in Publisher and it takes a wee while […]

Here’s the question that I know you’ve all be asking yourselves: will PsiWin 2.3.3 synchronize with Microsoft Outlook 2007?
Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 expires in nine days time on Friday 2 February so I thought it was high time that I checked to see if the fairly ancient Psion software of PsiWin 2.3.3 — released […]

On Sunday morning I preached at the Chapel of St Salvator’s College, University of St Andrews, for the first time. (What I mean is that was the first time that I preached there and not the first time I’ve ever preached, as someone thought I meant when I told them the other day.)
I really […]

The remarkable thing is that this photograph was taken about two months ago and the scene is almost exactly as it is today: laptop on desk next to PC! Only now I have a new keyboard.
The relief
Well, praise the Lord! Thank you for all your prayers and positive vibes today: my PC is once […]

The new design for the WordPress login.
The latest version of the WordPress blogging / personal publishing software tool has just been released: WordPress 2.1 Ella. The current 2.x releases are being named after jazz musicians: the last was called ‘Duke’, after Duke Ellington; this one is called ‘Ella’, after Ella Fitzgerald.
Generally it’s faster, slicker and […]

Not even two months from the last time that my PC died it’s done it again this morning. Once more I’m gutted and PC-less.
I’d left it to do a defrag overnight — the software automatically shuts down the PC once it’s done — and when I got up this morning discovered that it hadn’t […]

Last Friday at work I was determined to solve a problem that we’ve had since I arrived in May 2006. It was to do with our network: why could my colleague Steve connect to my PC but I couldn’t connect to his?
Why had it taken us until Friday last to get around to troubleshooting […]