View from the Potting Shed

This week I’ve been sorting out a pile of CDs that have been been slowly working its way up skywards, like a compact tower of Babel.
They’ve been mostly music CDs from the covers of Metal Hammer, Rock Sound and Terrorizer magazines, but there were also a couple of guitar tuition CDs and the odd DVD […]

On Wednesday evening I sat down at my PC and tried to scan a document on my Epson Perfection 1670 Photo scanner.
Troubleshooting
I placed the document on the scanner’s glass, closed the lid and fired up the scanning software (Epson Scan).
Scanning …
Nothing.
I tried again. Again nothing. Every time I tried the scanner appeared to work […]

Have I shown you my laptop? It’s a Lenovo 3000 C100. Nothing wonderfully spectacular about it.

Until you turn it around:

How cool is that?!
It’s a GelaSkin that I got from Urban Retro. It’s called “Red Robot Leaving The City” by Exploding Dog.
GelaSkins are artistic, protective skins that are easy to both apply (with no […]

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 […]

The problem
Here’s something that I found annoying a few weeks ago, until I found a hack: when I have particularly long text notes stored in my Outlook tasks and then synchronize them with my Windows Mobile 6-powered O2 Xda Orbit phone/PDA I discover that the notes are truncated. I get this message at the […]

The antibiotics appear to be beginning to work, although I’m predictably now feeling a little rougher around the edges and more tired. But nothing that a handful of pills and a month in bed won’t fix!
Sadly, that’s not going to happen though.
Job satisfaction
Work is incredibly busy just now. (When is it not?) But […]

You know what it’s like when you’re trying to get your new Windows desktop OCR application to meet the launch deadline, a few things invariably get left undone.
I was installing OmniPage 16 last night and was a little surprised to see ZoneAlarm pop up a message asking if I’d allow
TODO: <File description>
permission to access a […]