View from the Potting Shed

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

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: microformats opensearch)

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 […]

Nice bucket!
Well, that’s been an interesting day. It began with me staying up far too late (past midnight, no less) to watch Metallica perform at the Reading and Leeds Festivals on BBC 2 and ended with me leaving Jane in hospital in Dundee overnight for observation.
I woke this morning with a start. Somehow (unconsciously?) I […]

The view from my hotel window in London last week.
Last week, from Sunday to Friday, I was in London on a course: PHP Programming and MySQL for Web Development with StayAhead Training.
The course was a good introduction to PHP and MySQL, and I was the only person on the course (which you’ll know already if […]

Another new Metallica song — their first single — from their forthcoming album Death Magnetic: The Day That Never Comes.
To me it sounds like a combination of songs from Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, … And Justice For All, and Load/ReLoad.
I’m really looking forward to the album’s release …

In the UK there’s been a long-time medical TV series called Casualty; the YouTube video above shows you the opening titles from Series 15 (2000-2001).
The show is filmed in Bristol, but is set in the fictitious town of Holby — around which have sprung up two other series Holby City (set in the same hospital […]