View from the Potting Shed

I was chatting with a friend online this evening (hello Steve!) about web coding, and I offered him my three favourite add-ons for Mozilla Firefox which I find absolutely essential for coding and debugging HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Work in Firefox, debug in IE
When developing code I tend to always work with Firefox first. When […]

When I first got my O2 Xda Orbit I decided to get a desktop cradle so that my shiny new phone could sit upright, alert and ready for me to answer a call rather than slumped lazily on its back.
However, I struggled to find one that was guaranteed to work with an Xda Orbit, and […]

Long-time readers will remember my post about the PlusDeck 2, a 5.25″ cassette deck that you can install in a free CD/DVD slot on your PC. With it you could convert your cassette collection to CD or MP3* format (*other audio formats are available).
Well, someone has gone one better and created a USB Twin […]

I was listening in the car on my journey home from work today to a cover-mounted CD that I got last month in Metal Hammer magazine.
The CD was called The Great Southern Trendkill. Pantera fans will already have recognised the reference; the CD contains 15 southern metal tracks from the likes of Black Label Society, […]

For some reason (ask a psychologist) each time I drive past fields of hay bales, or whatever the rolled-up variety are called, I’m reminded of the German war graves I saw in Belgium, near Ypres and Poperinge on a trip with Toc-H. Or scenes from films of Scottish battles; the bales are memorials, marking the […]

I didn’t get much sleep last night, despite going to bed early (before 22:00). You see, our cats, Spot and Smudge, appear to have founded an Ian Banks-inspired Mouse Factory.
During the night they brought in four mice. Well, okay, if you want to get technical about it: three and a half. In they’d bound, […]

What would really happen if your toys came to life? This short film (4 minutes 54 seconds) tries to answer that very question.
This made me cry with laughter. A lot.
Bits of it made Jane laugh too, although at the end of it she said that she thinks I’ve got a weird sense of humour.
WARNING: […]