View from the Potting Shed

UPDATE: I’ve just created a step-by-step guide on how to install Anapod Explorer Universal Edition version 9.0.3. I hope that’s helpful to some folks.
ORIGINAL POST: Jane has an Apple iPod — it’s a fifth generation 30GB Video iPod — and while it’s all lovely and usable in its all-black designer chic look we have […]

You may have noticed the other day when I posted the same picture (above) on my blog that my two CRT monitors sit on top of matching monitor risers. I found pretty early on after getting a PC that I felt much more comfortable sitting at my computer if my monitors were sitting up […]

Yesterday we were visited at work by someone from Nedstat, a company that specializes in Web statistics. But that’s not what this post is about, it’s about this: why my browsers were falling down whenever I ran Java applications; a problem I’ve had for over five months now.
Because whenever the Nedstat rep. tried to […]

This week I received something in my e-mail inbox that I’ve not had in a while: a hoax e-mail ‘kindly’ forwarded to me by a friend or family member trying to help me and ensure that my hard drive wouldn’t be destroyed by the latest terrible virus.
Olympic Torch hoax
The hoax e-mail sent was the Olympic […]

While looking through the toys last weekend in Selkirk I came across this rather scary talking doll that belonged to my sister Jenni.

The genius thing about it is that it has a tiny record player built in! It came with 2 or 3 double-sided records, some with (non-stop, stalker-like) talking, and some with singing. […]

Here’s my Top Tip for the day: a desk lamp beneath my desk allowing me clearly to see the (labelled) connections on the back of my PC case.
Light
The lamp is for those moments when I have to crawl down there to (un)plug an audio or USB cable, or when I’ve got the side panel off […]

A portion of the award-winning London Underground map. I used to live near Victoria and then between Elephant & Castle and Borough.
During the last couple of years as I’ve thought more about what makes for good website design I’ve been encouraged to read more widely around the subject of design in the real world. […]