View from the Potting Shed

Over the last couple of months, whenever I have taken out my Psion Series 5mx in public there has always been someone who oohs and ahhs over it and asks if this will be the next big thing. They’re often quite surprised when I say that it was manufactured over seven years ago in […]

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 […]

The other day, while we were in Edinburgh, I popped into the local PC World and bought myself a new keyboard; my first new keyboard in about five years, and it was a long overdue purchase.
I’m a firm believer in choosing input devices that are right for the job. The peripherals I use most […]

This morning I finished reading Mr Beck’s Underground Map: A History by Ken Garland. It has been sitting on my bookshelf since March when Hazel recommended it to me.
The London Underground map is truly a work of genius. It maps London’s underground railway lines and connections rather than faithfully recreating a geographically accurate map. […]

Photo by Tome213
When we got my Mum a PC a few years ago (Jane and I were still living in Inverness at the time) I looked around to decide on which Internet Service Provider (ISP) to choose for her. Those were the heady days of v.90 and v.92 dial-up modems and Pay As You […]

Today’s major domestic task was to connect up the various AV equipment in the living room (or ‘lounge’ if you prefer that term). As you can see from the diagram above it was a simple case of connecting cables to ports.
To be honest I didn’t find the above diagram, from our Philips digibox, particularly […]

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.
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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 […]