View from the Potting Shed

Yesterday my brother Eddie and I drove down to Selkirk for a four hour, military-precise exercise to build a new bed for Mum and return her now up-to-date and working PC. At least that was the plan.
The bed was built in under an hour, a spot of lunch was taken before Eddie set to work […]

Here’s a YouTube video that brings together two of my favourite things: my favourite TV show (Top Gear) and my favourite PC game (Battlefield 2).
It’s a remake within the Battlefield 2 game environment of Jeremy Clarkson’s task to out-manoeuvre a British Army Challenger 2 tank. It lasts about 8 minutes.
(If you can’t view it […]

Here’s something that I came across recently that seemed like good value: a website offering for download the following Free Serif Software:

PhotoPlus 6.0 - Photo and Image Editing
PagePlus SE - Desktop Publishing
DrawPlus 4.0 - Graphic Design and Vector Drawing
3DPlus 2.0 - 3D Animation and Modelling
WebPlus 6.0 - Web Site Design and Publishing

While these may not […]

Tonight’s romantic task, once Jane had returned home from a lecture at Glasgow Caledonian University, was to back-up Jane’s Mum’s laptop. Which, as you can see from the photograph, has a somewhat pwned screen!
And in case you were wondering, yes we did try that technical support favourite of switching it off and switching it back […]

I’m now officially™ on the market for buying a new computer system, ever since the Saunders’ household Director of Finance gave the thumbs up to my application last week. The thing is now is not necessarily the best time to be looking for new hardware. Not because there isn’t any cool gear out there […]

Screenshot of web code, as viewed in the excellent Firebug add-on for Mozilla Firefox.
These last couple of weeks I’ve spent much of time, both at home and work, puzzling over a coding project I’m currently working on at the University; which is partly why my blogging activity has been more intermittent than usual.
Baseline browsers
For this […]

On Friday night I returned from playing at Powerpoint, Edinburgh and sat up watching two episodes of Family Guy on TV.
This is one of the funniest clips I’ve ever seen. I was crying uncontrollably, with tears rolling down my cheeks. And in the cool light of day, I still find it incredibly funny.

(If […]