View from the Potting Shed

The folks at Nikko Home Electronics have a few geeky gadgets for the keen Star Wars fan (with too much money!), including this R2-D2 DVD projector.
It claims “a full 6.44 meters (254 inches) projection of any (digital) material”, can read DVDs and CDs, allows connection to external audio and video devices (although there is a […]

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Great Aunt Mary’s funeral went really well yesterday; thanks to those who prayed for me / us / it. Preparing for it was the really hard bit; standing at the lectern, in front of my family was the easy bit.
Here’s my tip for preparing for a family-member’s funeral: cry beforehand. Find […]

There’s a lot on today, so I’ll keep this brief — not least because I need to drive to Edinburgh shortly.
Today is Jane’s final day of work at The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. I know that she’s looking forward to the challenges ahead with Aberlour Child Care Trust but she’ll also miss the Award too. […]

Vladimir Karpets - he’s not a cheat and he has a cool name
So … shortly after Le Tour de France passed the final stage over the Pyrenees it now finds itself with an even steeper climb: rebuilding people’s confidence (should that be Cofidis?) in cycling and the complete expulsion of drugs and doping from the […]

View of Falkland Palace from the lawn.
Ask me how I’d like to spend a Sunday afternoon and I’d probably not even think of including “watch an international folk dance festival in the grounds of an ancient Scottish palace”, but that’s exactly what Jane and I did a couple of days ago.
Jane’s sister Pauline and family […]

This evening I compiled my first ever iMix: The Original Songs From The Mirror (link requires iTunes to be installed).
What is an iMix?
With iTunes and the iTunes Music Store, you can publish your music recommendations for friends and family anytime.
When you publish a playlist at the iTunes Music Store, it’s called an “iMix.” iMixes allow […]

There was a comment at the IWMW2007 conference in York last week about how deceptive many photographs on university promotional websites are; for example, they always show deep blue skies with hardly a cloud in sight.
So today I decided to put it to the test.
The frontpage news headline on the BBC News website says “Flood […]