View from the Potting Shed

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 […]

Last night I had a proper chance to check out my new PC, a modified Cube247 Scorpius ST10. Here’s a quick review.
If you can’t be bothered to read it all just scroll down to the conclusion.
Packaging (4/5)
The system came neatly packaged in five boxes:

PC case, Windows and drivers CDs and component manuals
Monitor
Monitor
Creative 5.1 speakers
Keyboard, […]

Transcending CSS: the fine art of web design by Andy Clarke is one of the best books about cascading style sheets (CSS) that I’ve read in a long time.
As a designer Andy Clarke has produced a book that’s far from the hundreds of other dull books on CSS which are packed full of dry code […]

For Christmas the lovely Jane™ bought me the Pure Evoke-1XT Marshall DAB radio. How cool is she!
As many of you will know I also own a pink (Jane picked the colour) Pure One DAB radio. So I thought it would be quite fun to write up a comparison of the two.
One

I’ve had this radio […]

Some days lyrics that you know so well stand out. Get Away by Kings X.
And if you get offended by a certain word then you’ve probably missed the point completely.
Get Away (3:25)
Hey God, I watched the news tonight
why are your people so fucking mean?
Hey God, that kid was locked up for 3 years
why do the […]

As a worshiping community, we have been challenged by such a moment as this!
A moment when we know we are living with AIDS and that we are loved and affirmed.
A moment in which we can offer compassion to those with AIDS and HIV.
A moment where we can sit and comfort those who suffer illness or […]