View from the Potting Shed

It’s “Move-Day minus 1″ before the packers return to load everything else into the back of a lorry and drive it safely over to Fife, and we’re getting organized (you may have guessed that already from previous blog posts).
What still needs to be done?

Something we’ve found helpful as we’ve been dotting between rooms is a […]

Having moved house a few times now, and being the kind of organized fellow that I am, I’ve found that having a small cardboard box called the “Packing Box” filled with the following items makes for a much easier life.
Into my packing box I’ve thrown:

Tape gun and extra parcel tape — having used one of […]

I’ve been meaning to blog this for ages; someone on one of the Psion groups pointed me to it.
It’s a small application that I now use when synchronizing my Psion Series 5mx (or Psion Series 7) with Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 called Express ClickYes.
Longtime Psion users will remember that synchronizing their Agenda and Contacts with […]

Here’s my Top Tip for the day: a desk lamp beneath my desk allowing me clearly to see the (labelled) connections on the back of my PC case.
Light
The lamp is for those moments when I have to crawl down there to (un)plug an audio or USB cable, or when I’ve got the side panel off […]

Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 1000W.
You’ve heard of Ash Wednesday, well for me today has been Toner Tuesday.
Tomorrow morning, at 09:30, I have an Ash Wednesday service with the imposition of ashes at St Ninian’s, Comely Bank. Because the Wednesday morning service follows the same liturgy as the previous Sunday tomorrow we’re using the 1970 Scottish Liturgy. […]

Screenshot of MSN Messenger 7.5 (Build 7.5.0324) patched to remove adverts. By default there would be a flashing advertisment above the search box at the bottom of this window.
The fine people at www.mess.be have done it again, and produced a customizable patch application for the latest version of MSN Messenger 7.5.(Build 7.5.0324).
One of the things […]

Today was the first time, I’m ashamed to say, that I’d changed the strings on my Burns Brian May guitar. I’d got it into my head that the Grover Locking Machine Heads (tuning pegs, to you and me) would be difficult to operate.
Quite the opposite. They were a dream to use: […]