Reading time: 2 mins Stuck. Paused. Diverted. I have a couple of new projects to work on, a couple of projects that are stuck at the “hard bits” (both in theory and in workload) and I’m managing to avoid them all at the moment. Filling my time researching, taking care of other small tasks. I’m partway through “Getting Things…
Reading time: < 1 min When we bought our house we desperately wanted somewhere with a garden so we’d have somewhere to sit on those summer evenings. Somewhere in the last three years all that changed. We did a fair amount of work on the garden in the first year, last year the weather and our social calendar conspired against…
Reading time: 2 mins When it was released and whilst I was still flush with the joy of switching to Firefox, I thought I’d have a go at Mozilla’s new email client Thunderbird. I’ve been using it for about 3 months now, here are some of my thoughts. PROS Installation and import is easy The installation is painless as…
Reading time: < 1 min HaloScan Wiki. HaloScan Dev Blog. Steve Nash MVP, wow!Blog Directory ideas (not mine). What IS the best “classic” driving song? Blogmeet! (THIS Saturday). DITA DTD. Two site designs for others. Burningbird, consistently smart. One site design for me. Sock on the radiator. Thunderbird for email. Outlook for Calendar? Getting organised, Ta-Da and Backpack are key.…
Reading time: < 1 min Oh crap, it’s Monday morning. Already. Today will be an exercise in self-control. Having had only about 4 hours sleep I’ll be attempting NOT to make sarcastic comments to any of my co-workers, and to stay awake at least until lunchtime. I had planned to discuss Derren Brown and whether his latest tv show is…
Reading time: < 1 min A few beers tonight, for medicinal reasons of course, and I should be fast asleep. Unfortunately my brain is still churning away at several thousand miles per hour so I’m tidying out my email, deleting old files, boring stuff that doesn’t require much concentration. I’ll pause and mention that it’s my other sisters (in-law) birthday…