View from the Potting Shed

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. […]

Spot the difference:

In the three years since Jeffrey Zeldman wrote his first edition of Designing With Web Standards his book cover has now turned green, the content has been printed in full technicolour and it appears (from the cover photo at least) that he now looks like Bob Carolgees in a beanie hat!
My copy […]

A couple of things that have floated my boat this week. (I don’t literally have a boat, it’s just a turn of phrase.)
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Listening to music the other night, I had WinAmp Pro on random play, and from the 9,431 tracks from which it could choose it happened to land on a track called “Don’t […]

A nice clear desk, set up for writing about Mahjong, with a library of Mahjong books to my left, and the two monitors: book text on the left screen, update log on the right screen.
This morning I made good progress on the edits for the Teach Yourself Mahjong book that I’m revising. I hate […]

This last week I’ve been loving my new job, but I’ll write more about that soon. Each evening, sometimes into the small hours, I’ve been locking myself away in my nice, cozy study and working on finishing the documentation for the SEC website.
I’m pleased to announce that this afternoon I finished it all, having […]

Yesterday, much to my delight I received a package from Amazon UK. Inside was a surprise gift from a friend of mine of this book, called Signs of Life by Dave Askwith & Alex Normanton.
It arrived just as I was about to get ready to leave for St Andrews. That had to be […]

How I imagine the church looked in 1950.
What a superb find. While sorting through which books to keep and which to chuck I found this volume: The Churches in Scotland To-day: A Survey of Their Principles, Strength Work and Statements, by John Highet (Jackson Son & Company, Glasgow, 1950).
Inside flap
Here’s what it says about […]