View from the Potting Shed

This afternoon Jane, Rich and I had a very successful and educational trip to the Scottish Fisheries Museum. As it says on the sign out front: it’s bigger than it appears.
It’s a sign!
The place was littered with signs instructing visitors:
Please do not take photographs.
The intense light from camera flashes can damage the objects on display
I […]

Our friend Rich is over from sunny Stirling this weekend.
The plan was to repaint the shed and fence (Cuprinol ‘Autumn Brown’ in case you were wondering). Somehow, I don’t think that’s going to happen today.
Not unless we dismantle the shed, rebuild it indoors, dry it with a hair drier, repaint it, dry it with […]

I’ve been using my ‘repaired’ O2 Xda Orbit for a little under 24 hours now.
I’ve had to do a soft reset twice now. Both times after using Pocket e-Sword Bible software.
Bah!
I think I would have been happier sticking with a Nokia. Or a paper cup and a length of string.
Double bah! Oh well, […]

You know those days when you come home to an empty house, having spent half the morning in a hospital gown and a doctor doing ultrasound scans on your testicles, and then half the afternoon trying to work your way through a pile of immediate website fixes before getting to the stuff that you promised […]

Safari 3.0 the Apple browser, built on the WebKit rendering engine, is now available in Public Beta … and for Windows too!
I can’t ever see it becoming my #1 browser, but it’s great news for us web developer-type bods who don’t have ready access to an Apple Mac — or the Linux Konqueror […]

On Saturday I got my phone back from the O2 Repair Centre; I picked it up from the O2 shop at the Gyle Shopping Centre in Edinburgh — more of that in a moment.
There was a note attached:
Dear Customer,
That’s me.
Thank you for sending your mobile phone to us.
Your handset has been examined by one of […]

Ach well, the dream was good while it lasted.
Remember that post last week about my doing Sunday cover during the summer in little ol’ Monte Carlo? And remember that I phoned and offered which Sundays I could do, and was told that that was fine and he’d phone back on Thursday with details?
Well, I […]