View from the Potting Shed

How can it be the end of March already?!
It’s not just me, is it? Easter felt infeasibly early this year. I happened before the clocks went forward (from GMT to BST). In fact, it happened before it had even stopped snowing!
And now that Easter is passed, Jesus has risen again (Alleluia!) and in […]

Mike Arthur tagged me to do the meme that is Five artists, five songs.
Here’s the challenge:
List your five favourite artists, your five favourite songs by those artists and tag five other people to do it.
I find this a really hard question, because it really depends on what day / week / month it is. […]

Ah … the delights of developing websites on a PC with three monitors.
Here I’ve got my code in the middle screen, Firefox 2.0.0.12 on my left and on the right: IE6 (top) and IE7 (bottom).
Of course, if I had four monitors then I could have had my Windows Live Messenger and Twitter windows open too!
The […]

A nice and friendly way to begin a presentation.
About 10 months ago we launched a new website for the University.
Over the last few weeks we’ve been hosting a number of feedback sessions inviting folks to comment on what they think works, what doesn’t work, what could be improved, and giving us an opportunity to showcase […]

Google’s logo today, celebrating St Patrick’s Day … which isn’t today this year
Ordinarily today would be St Patrick’s Day, it being the seventeenth of March. However, as this is now Holy Week which kind of trumps all other lesser festivals, it isn’t.
The Roman Catholic Church moved his feast to Saturday 15 March this year, the […]

It would appear that to park in the Dyer’s Brae staff car park in St Andrews you would need a car that is some kind of shade of red or blue.
It would also appear that a complete inability to park straight would help too, as this photo ably demonstrates:

Very poor, Mr Reeves; very poor!

Over the last few weeks I’ve been taking a few photos with my phone. Not the best quality of photos, I’ll admit, but I thought I’d share them with you anyway.

This is a red sunset that we had a few nights ago. When I arrived home I just had to stand and marvel […]