View from the Potting Shed

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 […]

Have I shown you my laptop? It’s a Lenovo 3000 C100. Nothing wonderfully spectacular about it.

Until you turn it around:

How cool is that?!
It’s a GelaSkin that I got from Urban Retro. It’s called “Red Robot Leaving The City” by Exploding Dog.
GelaSkins are artistic, protective skins that are easy to both apply (with no […]

In the words of Vic Reeves and The Wonder Stuff:
Dizzy,
I’m so Dizzy, my head is spinning
Like a whirlpool, it never ends
And it’s you [viral labyrinthitis], making it spin
you’re making me dizzy
I appear not to have completely shaken the viral cold nonsense that I’ve been fighting for over two weeks now. On Saturday morning I […]

I still can’t quite believe it: I’ve just ordered myself a new PC from Cube247.
My current PC has been slowly dying over the last few months. Even after a complete reinstall it falls over during the most mundane of tasks: watching video online, ripping CDs to MP3, erm … checking the time.
It did it […]

What is it about national companies these days. Seriously, does no one care about customer care any more? Are we all just anonymous consumers paying our electronic cash to anonymous, faceless corporations?
Can you tell I’m a little annoyed?
I was on the phone to Mum this evening. She’s really upset: it appears that she […]

Me with my Mum and Dad, in 1997 (I think)
Today is the 10th anniversary of the death of my father, Keith John Saunders. He died at 23:50 on Sunday 04 January 1998.
I can hardly believe that it’s been so long. Ten years.
Here’s something I wrote shortly after he died:
Where did he go? My faith […]

This afternoon I went for my shortest but probably most expensive cycle trip ever. I took my bike to St Andrews, but unfortunately I wasn’t riding it at the time.
Around 15:00 I set off on my bike, cycled about 100 yards to the main road and stopped for a car to pass. Stood […]