View from the Potting Shed

Regular readers of this blog may remember that in September 2006 I conducted the wedding of our good friends Kenny and Chris. Well yesterday they came to visit, for about 24 hours.
We took a walk down to the harbour in Anstruther, which is usually such a peaceful place to take visitors. Not yesterday, there […]

So … it would appear that the new Apple iPhone 3G was launched today. (That’s obviously not a photo of the new Apple iPhone 3G above, or even the old one. That’s my O2 Xda Orbit running Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.)
I didn’t know that until today. Until I started reading folks’ posts (called […]

The new version of ZoneAlarm Pro (version 7.0.483.000) now resides happily alongside Microsoft Update KB951748.
I wasn’t online last night otherwise I’d have seen the HUGE number of comments on my last post about the merry dance that the latest Microsoft Update KB951748 caused for ZoneAlarm users: Microsoft Update KB951748 and ZoneAlarm woes. Thanks for all […]

I discovered this conversation saved in my blog post drafts. It’s from an online conversation I had in April 2007 with my friend James.
James: Hello!
Gareth: Hello. Been on the phone to Jane.
James: How’s Jane?
Gareth: Tired and feeling ill … and in Ellon - north of Aberdeen.
James: Well that’s no good
Gareth: She has a […]

Here’s a lesson that I’ve recently learned, that I wanted to kindly share with you.
If you’ve just cancelled a Web hosting account with, say WebFusion, and you want to set up Web Forwarding in your — let’s say — 123-Reg account to point to a new blog you’ve created at — picking one at complete […]

When I visited London all those weeks ago — mid-May, although according to The Other Place it was Yesterday — I met a bunch of kindly geeky, social media types in a posh hotel next to the Beeb in central London.
For most of the meet-up I sat between @solobasssteve and @lobeliasabo and cracked on with […]

Update: There is now a fix for this issue, see my blog post: Fix for MS Update KB951748 and ZoneAlarm.
Well, that was a quick break from blogging! Actually, it was my experience with Windows Update and the ZoneAlarm firewall today that’s brought me out from my self-imposed blogging exile this week.
I’ll cut to the […]