View from the Potting Shed

When I was a student at St Mary’s College (1989-1992), the Faculty of Divinity at the University of St Andrews, there was no such thing as the World Wide Web. So it feels a little surreal that I helped design, build and launch the website for my alma mater.
So it was that this evening, […]

One of my favourite blogs at the moment is the Fail Blog. It contains user-submitted photos and videos of various fails. Basically places where someone has messed up: accidents, ill-placed signs, products in the wrong place, etc.
I’ve just submitted this image:

It’s not hilarious, but it is a fail.
I’ve just had to send it […]

On the whole, over the years I’ve managed to keep myself pretty well organized. As a child growing up I was always reorganizing my room: rearranging the order of books, folders, stationery, … everything! If it wasn’t nailed down I moved it. It’s probably inevitable that I should get a job working […]

Scottish Web Folk: Three (5-minute) ways to improve your Website

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Back in July at the IWMW 2008 conference — during those heady three days of summer we experienced in Aberdeen — I was introduced to a specification called OpenSearch, by someone I’d been following on Twitter who […]

Right twin at 19 weeks
In many ways 2008 has been a very odd year for me, for many reasons. Of course it opened with the IVF procedures that led to Jane discovering that she was pregnant, that led to us discovering that she was pregnant with twins.
During the last six months we’ve been filled […]

First of all there was this 12seconds clip from Documentally, about a dog and a field mushroom:

Mushroom The Size Of My Head on 12seconds.tv
… which later prompted this parody from AndrewJHolmes, about another canine and a fairy-tale mushroom:

documentally mushroom on 12seconds.tv
In other news
While you’re there, check out AndrewJHolmes’ answer to the 12 challenge: If I […]