View from the Potting Shed

Here’s my video blog post from Seesmic today.
And before anyone comments: yes, I know that I showed the navigation example on Opera 9.5 and not Internet Explorer. Trust me, it works on IE too!

My Mum holding me in early 1972. Scanned from a positive film.
There’s a scene in the film Bruce Almighty where Bruce’s girlfriend complains that Bruce has no interest in her current relationship-oriented project of collating an album of shared photographs.
Well that very same project was what Jane and I got up to yesterday … only […]

This is a Seesmic post that I made this evening about an email I got from BBC Scotland about this blog post from 2005: My JIIG-CAL results from 1985.
According to the BBC journalist who contacted me “the story will be up on the website from first thing on Friday morning and there should also be […]

Today I spotted a bug with Firebug 1.2.0b3 in Firefox 3.0. Here’s what I posted to the Firebug Google Group:
I’ve just upgraded to Firefox 3.0 (on Windows XP Pro) and have installed Firebug 1.2.0b3 but I’m having an issue with Firebug not responding once it has been opened in its own window. My colleague […]

Today I made my internet debut on Seesmic: the video conversation website.
I remember someone leaving a comment ages ago when they heard my voice on an MP3 file saying that it kind of freaked them out to hear me because up until then I’d just been an anonymous stranger behind the written word. Well, […]

Photograph from Unseen Jersey
I remember as a child one of my ambitions was to dig a full-size World War I trench in the front garden. Understandably my parents wouldn’t let me, and to be honest I really didn’t have the energy or drive to do it regardless. Instead, I went back to creating a […]

While watching Star Wars Episode V “The Empire Strikes Back” the other day I noticed for the first time that the Rebel commanders on Hoth all have little packets of Strepsils throat lozenges pinned to their jackets.
I guess if I lived and worked in that sort of climate I’d do the same. Good thinking […]