View from the Potting Shed

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Today is St Andrews Day — patron saint of Scotland and Russia. Which, this year, means one thing in our house: it’s the day for Jane’s IVF-related operation.
For those who don’t know: we’re on an IVF programme at Ninewells hospital, Dundee and a few months back during a routine scan […]

View of the car parked at the Borders General Hospital; Mum has a blue badge so we could park legitimately in the disabled spaces.
On Friday evening I drove down to Selkirk to see Mum; the first time I’d been down for months.
My plan/agenda was:

spend some time with Mum
install Mum’s new BT Synergy 4500 phones
update the […]

Online calendar applications, such as Google Calendar, Yahoo! Calendar and CalendarHub, are getting increasingly more popular these days.
They enable you to keep track of your busy schedule no matter where you are. With the right software or plugin you can even synchronize them with your main desktop calendar such as Microsoft Outlook or Apple […]

Stuck for a gift idea this Christmas? Metallica’s latest newletter is brimming with ideas, headlined: Give the gift of Metal.
I literally can’t think of anything better!

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Sorry about the lack of proper blogging over the last few days. I’ll tell you what I’ve been doing: I’m looking for the right content management software for a website project I’m working on.
So I’m spending the evenings either trawling through web pages of documentation, trawling through pages of books about specific content […]

UPDATE: I’ve just created a step-by-step guide on how to install Anapod Explorer Universal Edition version 9.0.3. I hope that’s helpful to some folks.
ORIGINAL POST: Jane has an Apple iPod — it’s a fifth generation 30GB Video iPod — and while it’s all lovely and usable in its all-black designer chic look we have […]

Image from CustomPC feature: XP vs Vista
The Christmas edition of PC Plus arrived this week. This month’s issue contains a “Wishlist 2007″ booklet, at the back of which is an article entitled “Wow! 10 reasons why you need Windows Vista”.

The interface looks amazing
It does. I’ve used Windows Vista, not for long, but long enough to […]