View from the Potting Shed

[Long sorrowful exhale]
It’s been a long day today. It felt like I was never going to get home once I eventually got on the road. Those familiar ten miles seemed to stretch on forever. How did it take me about 30 minutes to drive home?!
The day’s first obstacle was getting into work […]

A presentation by the JRuby Guys (Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo) at Scotland on Rails.
This is a post that I’ve had sitting in my WordPress drafts since early April about the Scotland on Rails conference that I attended, actually the same weekend that Jane and I discovered that she was pregnant … so that made […]

Just before I went on holiday (more on that soon) I went out to lunch with a friend in St Andrews.
We went to The Rule bar/restaurant on South Street.
I ordered sausages and mash.
When they arrived it looked like they were sponsored by Atari!

One of the smaller Web projects that I’ve been working on over the last few months is a new website for my parents-in-law, Peter and Dorothy Neilson: Sacred space at Linne Bheag.
Weebly
It’s built using Weebly, which is a really simple to use content management system.
Weebly is wonderfully easy to use, even easier to use than […]

Fife on wheels
I can’t remember … much actually! No, I can’t remember any other new year where I’ve been clobbered with quite so many bugs as this one.
I seem to have had at least one new stomach bug or virus each month. Some months I was greedy and had at least two.
So I […]

A nice and friendly way to begin a presentation.
About 10 months ago we launched a new website for the University.
Over the last few weeks we’ve been hosting a number of feedback sessions inviting folks to comment on what they think works, what doesn’t work, what could be improved, and giving us an opportunity to showcase […]

It would appear that to park in the Dyer’s Brae staff car park in St Andrews you would need a car that is some kind of shade of red or blue.
It would also appear that a complete inability to park straight would help too, as this photo ably demonstrates:

Very poor, Mr Reeves; very poor!