View from the Potting Shed

If you’ve been pottering around blogs and news websites over the last couple of years you will no doubt have come across the abbreviation ‘RSS’. RSS stands for any one of the following, depending on which technology you are using:

Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0)
RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 […]

Each week I get an e-mail with a list of the most common searches on a few of my websites. Here (or should I say ‘ere) is one that confused me:
There were 8 searches for the week ending 01/06/07 for Taking the Episcopalian.
Here are the top phrases searched:
- 4 for “giant ears”
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This evening Jane and I have been busy putting up curtains in the study (big brown cloth things in the photo above) and affixing two Ikea Lack shelves on the study wall (the big, wooden long things to the left of the picture above).
We did it ourselves.
Update: I’ve just realised that this is my 1000th […]

Yesterday we were visited at work by someone from Nedstat, a company that specializes in Web statistics. But that’s not what this post is about, it’s about this: why my browsers were falling down whenever I ran Java applications; a problem I’ve had for over five months now.
Because whenever the Nedstat rep. tried to […]

The one and only Philip Z. Graham on Market Street, St Andrews.
In the last 30 days there have been three searches for “Philip Graham” on my blog. I know this because I have the Search Meter WordPress plugin activated on my blog. Who am I to deny my readers from what they are […]

On most days during term between 1989 and 1993 I walked through these gates (pictured above) into St Mary’s College in St Andrews. Each day I did I walked past a small noticeboard that gave details of the next service in the University chapel and advertised the name of the preacher.
I always assumed that […]

Shortly before New Year I entered a competition and won. But this week discovered that in fact I hadn’t won. But that they’d make me a winner of my very own unique competition anyway.
Let me explain.
Kleenex have a competition advertised on selected boxes of tissues at the moment to win a Red Nose […]