View from the Potting Shed

I’m off work again.
I was off last week too, having picked up a cold the day before I was due to return after the Christmas and New Year holidays. I got over what I thought was the worst of it by Wednesday and returned to work, even though I didn’t feel 100% and managed […]

What is it about national companies these days. Seriously, does no one care about customer care any more? Are we all just anonymous consumers paying our electronic cash to anonymous, faceless corporations?
Can you tell I’m a little annoyed?
I was on the phone to Mum this evening. She’s really upset: it appears that she […]

Chris Cooper has launched a new wiki for Psion enthusiasts/users. It’s called PsionWiki.
For those who don’t know, a wiki is a website that you can join, login to and create/edit the information on it.
If you’re a Psion user and want to contribute, then get over to http://psionwiki.wikidot.com/ and get involved.

Transcending CSS: the fine art of web design by Andy Clarke is one of the best books about cascading style sheets (CSS) that I’ve read in a long time.
As a designer Andy Clarke has produced a book that’s far from the hundreds of other dull books on CSS which are packed full of dry code […]

For Christmas the lovely Jane™ bought me the Pure Evoke-1XT Marshall DAB radio. How cool is she!
As many of you will know I also own a pink (Jane picked the colour) Pure One DAB radio. So I thought it would be quite fun to write up a comparison of the two.
One

I’ve had this radio […]

Here’s our annual Christmas newsletter for those of you who didn’t get a paper copy through the post.
New Year 2007
Having moved into our new home in November, we were feeling quite settled by New Year, which we celebrated in style with Eddie, Rebecca and Owen. Of course, when we say “style” what we really mean […]

Me with my Mum and Dad, in 1997 (I think)
Today is the 10th anniversary of the death of my father, Keith John Saunders. He died at 23:50 on Sunday 04 January 1998.
I can hardly believe that it’s been so long. Ten years.
Here’s something I wrote shortly after he died:
Where did he go? My faith […]