View from the Potting Shed

In the words of The Fast Show: This week I are been mostly testing websites in different browsers.
Using Google Analytics
Thanks to our use of the ever-useful Google Analytics I can see that the top five browsers to visit the University website are:

Internet Explorer - 74.01%
Firefox - 17.78%
Safari - 6.65%
Netscape - 0.76%
Opera - 0.44%

Within the Google […]

They say that every woman loves a man in uniform. To be honest, I’m not sure you can be entirely accurate with such a sweeping statement!
That’s a photograph of me proudly standing in the garden in my Air Training Corps uniform; I must have been aged about 15, I reckon.
And that’s a little orange wheelbarrow […]

York skyline, showing York Minster. (Photo from York Musical Society.)
Well, it’s all booked up now and confirmed: next month (16-18 July) my Web colleague (not Spiderman, the other one) and I are off to York for the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2007, which this year has the theme of “Next Steps for the Web Management […]

I did a little research, following my untimely outburst against the Comic Sans font.
It appears that there is a website dedicated to banning the Microsoft Comic Sans truetype font … and strangely not simply because it hails from Chez Microsoft. It’s rather predictably called Ban Comic Sans.
There’s an interesting interview with the folks being the […]

Here’s part of my shopping list for today:

Kleenex hankies (for my desk)
Lunch
Ordination card
Hot water bottle

Hot water bottle?! In June?!! What have we done to our planet?
When I drove into work this morning the road was flooded. Almost all ten miles of it, from Anstruther to St Andrews. When I got into St Andrews it […]

The weekend wasn’t a complete wash-out: we managed to paint the shed after all. The shed, and both sides of the fence. A task that took all afternoon.
Around midday — and two chapters into Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy — Rich and I realised that the sun was finally coming out, the shed’s […]

What joyous news!
I was just checking my Google Analytics results for this blog and discovered that there are more people using Mozilla Firefox than Microsoft Internet Explorer to view my blog.
For those who can’t quite read the results on the graph above, here is the list of top 10 browsers used to visit my blog […]