View from the Potting Shed

Things I like

Paddington Bear
Marmalade sandwiches
Paddington Bear trying new fillings in his sandwiches

Things I don’t like

Marmite

Looks like there is going to be a Paddington Bear film.

Microsoft have just announced Service Pack 3 for Microsoft Office 2003, which has prompted me to make sure that all my Microsoft Office applications are up-to-date.
What is a Service Pack?
A service pack (often abbreviated as SP) is a collection of updates, fixes and enhancements to a software application or operating system — such as Microsoft […]

What could be better than the release of a new album by a good friend? I’ll tell you: the release of a new album by two good friends.
Calamateur (Andrew Howie) and Steve Lawson (erm … Steve Lawson) have collaborated on an album of nine original, beautifully eerie songs which will be officially released on Monday […]

Jeff Barr of Amazon addressing the IWMW 2007 conference in York
Back in June, at the snappily-titled Institutional Web Management Workshop 2007 conference at the University of York, I attended a presentation by Jeff Barr, who has the enviable job title of Senior Manager, Web Services Evangelism at Amazon.com.
That’s right, Amazon have a Web Services Evangelist. […]

It turns out that Microsoft have been listening to the voices of impoverished students across the globe and are currently offering Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate Edition for only £38.95 (the RRP is £599.99) as part of their The Ultimate Steal promotion.
What you get
Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate Edition includes:

Word 2007
Excel 2007
PowerPoint 2007
Outlook 2007
Groove 2007
Publisher 2007
OneNote 2007
InfoPath […]

In common with all other Scottish Christian blogs, I may have given the impression that I thought that the Powerpoint Edinburgh committee had lost their minds in inviting such a controversial public figure to speak at this season’s opening event at St Thomas’, Glasgow Road, tonight.
Blog post titles such as “Theroux a glass darkly”, “When […]

There’s an interview with Tristan Nitot, the president of Mozilla Europe, on the PC Pro News website today.
When asked when we are likely to see the beta of Firefox 3 Tristan Nitot replied
Beta shouldn’t be too long, probably by the end of the year. We want it to be stable, usable. It will be, it’s […]