View from the Potting Shed

Yesterday I arrived home to discover that I had a parcel. Technically, it’s probably more a “packet” than a “parcel” but hey! Anyway, here it is:

I got all excited. I love getting parcels. Everyone loves getting parcels.
What could it be?
As I’d ordered a few geeky accessories for my new phone on the internet I […]

This month I come to the end of my 18 month contract with O2, so on Friday morning, while in Edinburgh waiting for my train connection to Glasgow, I upgraded my mobile phone from a Nokia 5140i to an O2 Xda Orbit.
Which I imagine in car terms is a bit like going from a Vauxhall […]

Once there was a typeface called Helvetica.
It was extremely popular.
Later came a software company called Microsoft.
They “borrowed” Helvetica for their operating system and called it Arial.
This inferior typeface is now on millions of desktops all over the world.
Can you tell the difference between the original and the rip-off in these ten examples?
Seemingly, Arial was designed […]

Well, in the end we had a really relaxed and quite weekend in Selkirk.
Oh, hang on! No! It’s the other one. We had a really busy, emotional but productive day clearing out seven car-loads of “stuff” from the shed.
I even managed to lose my head once or twice.

The irony was that most […]

This is my favourite website of the moment: http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/.
It’s imaginative, creative, daring, lo-fi, personal and fun.

Enjoy your adventure …

Why is there a photograph of a Post-it note? No idea … I panicked!
Another early start this morning: I’m now getting used to rising at 05:45 and getting some exercise in before work. This morning, however, I’m off to Edinburgh with Jane en route for Glasgow. This afternoon my colleague Steve and I […]

A couple of days ago I was clearing out old CD-ROMs, the ones you get free with PC magazines, and gleaning them of software that I either wanted or thought I should check out.
One application that caught my eye was AceHTML 6 Pro, a development environment for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP, and PHP. This morning […]