View from the Potting Shed

There’s an interesting article/review this month (April 2007 edition) in Computer Shopper magazine comparing the 12 most popular AntiVirus applications.
What they did was set up their own controlled lab, with a default install of Windows XP and then threw 434 of the most recent viruses at each application. They observed how the software handled […]

Bicycle Gear by donjolley at Stock.xchng.
Today was the first day in weeks that I’ve not woken up with a sore throat. So to celebrate Jane and I cycled down to her aunt’s to deliver a card.
I read the other day “a quarter of all car journeys are under two miles”, and that “cycling for […]

I searched stock.xchng for photographs entitled “Questions” … and this is the only photo it came up with. Who am I to argue?!
Questions nicked from Steve Lawson, et al.
A. Four jobs you’ve had in your life

Priest
Group Worker in Shaftesbury Society Homeless Hostel
Stock-taker and van driver at Claridge Mills, Selkirk
Temporary Postman

B. Four films you could watch […]

A very messy kitchen on its way to becoming a very tidy and clean kitchen. (Photograph on my Nokia 5140i.)
Here’s how it works in our partnership: I do the cleaning and Jane does the painting. There’s no point in us sticking to the stereotypes because I like cleaning and Jane likes painting. So that’s […]