View from the Potting Shed

While watching Star Wars Episode V “The Empire Strikes Back” the other day I noticed for the first time that the Rebel commanders on Hoth all have little packets of Strepsils throat lozenges pinned to their jackets.
I guess if I lived and worked in that sort of climate I’d do the same. Good thinking […]

Isn’t it annoying when software that you’ve bought suddenly stops working for no apparent reason. That happened to me last month with TechSmith Camtasia Studio 5, which is a superb screen recorder for creating screencasts.
The problem
Here’s the support call that I sent them on Wednesday 16 April:
Whenever I try to run Camtasia 5 it […]

Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor
Last year, some readers may remember, I blogged about Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor from WebAssist.
What it does
Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor is a commercial extension (US $99.99) for Adobe Dreamweaver 8 and CS3 that enables you to quickly and efficiently build a cross-browser compatible website layout with the minimum of fuss. And […]

I’ve got to a point working on my current Website design project where I’m needing to

test the code in a variety of browsers
keep track of which browsers still have issues with the code

Toolbar
So I took my own advice and created a new toolbar which I now have as part of my main toolbar, with links […]

How can it be the end of March already?!
It’s not just me, is it? Easter felt infeasibly early this year. I happened before the clocks went forward (from GMT to BST). In fact, it happened before it had even stopped snowing!
And now that Easter is passed, Jesus has risen again (Alleluia!) and in […]

Mike Arthur tagged me to do the meme that is Five artists, five songs.
Here’s the challenge:
List your five favourite artists, your five favourite songs by those artists and tag five other people to do it.
I find this a really hard question, because it really depends on what day / week / month it is. […]

Not sure why I’ve never noticed this before. When assigning a priority to a Task within Microsoft Outlook 2003 you can click on the priority box and select from a fly-out context-menu one of three options: Low, Normal or High.
But why didn’t the developers adopt a kind of natural mapping approach to the location […]