View from the Potting Shed

As spotted on the Optimus project blog:

This is a standard Latin and Cyrillic double-layout on a monumental concrete keyboard installed in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg (shot on Sunday).
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How cool is that! Doubly-so that it is in both Russian and English. But then I have a particular fondness for […]

Have you seen the new feature on Google Maps: Street View? It allows you to see a 360° high-resolution view of certain cities at street level. Currently the only cities available are in the USA (from West to East):

San Francisco, CA
Las Vegas, NV
Denver, CO
Miami, FL
New York, NY

Check out the video (imbedded above) on YouTube […]

When I got home from work today Jane had had the front door lock changed! To be honest I’m surprised that she’s not done it sooner!
Actually, all was good: there have been some days that I’ve had to leave via the back door as I couldn’t physically unlock the front.
Just in case you were wondering, […]

Terrorizer magazine sitting proudly on the shelves of my local metal-luvin’ WHSmith
May the gods of real metal™ be praised! Look what I spotted on the shelves of my local WHSmith: if it’s not this month’s Terrorizer magazine - the world’s leading extreme music magazine.
And here was I saying to someone just the other day that […]

One of my favourite and most-used applications is Mindjet MindManager 2002. I use it for everything, from planning websites and managing complex projects to helping to decide what to buy people for Christmas and reorganising my filing cabinet.
Mindmapping is a fabulous tool and of all the mindmapping applications that I’ve tried Mindjet’s MindManager family […]

It was my intention this evening to write a review of my O2 Xda Orbit, the mobile/cell phone / PDA / GPS / radio device that I got about a month ago.
But instead I’m spending my evening performing a hard reset and reinstalling everything, for the second time this month. And I’m not even going […]

I’m not ashamed to admit that I am a little obsessive with keeping things in order, neatly categorised and (usually fairly) tidy: books, cassettes, CDs, clothes, files, folders and even MP3 tags. Which is why I love this piece of software: Mp3tag by German programmer Florian Heidenreich.
What it does
Mp3tag is a simple piece of freeware […]