Reading time: < 1 min I got home this evening to find the next issue of Communicator sitting on the mat. Thankfully it was in one piece so obviously the cat hadn’t found it… Anyway, just to confirm that, yes, I am the same Gordon McLean who features in the final piece in the magazine. Worryingly that means you now…
Reading time: 2 mins Idiots: Take 1 Orange have dropped my line rental by 20%. Yay. Orange have offered me an upgrade on my handset, and I hate my current handset. Yay. That would mean a new 18mth contract. Boo. And despite having chosen the phone on Monday, I was told yesterday that I’m in the “wrong band”. Boo.…
Reading time: 2 mins This post is entirely to save my own sanity. Feel free to skip it but if I don’t write all this down my head will explode. Today I await the arrival of a new kitchen worktop and need to visit the doctor (well the nurse) to get my blood pressure taken again. I’ve been pretty…
Reading time: 4 mins As we are in the midst of rethinking our publishing processes, I’ve been looking at the current crop of tools, and (for our needs) three of them stand out over their competitors. Adobe, AuthorIT and MadCap seem to be heading for a battle royale, with the latter two the David to Adobe’s Goliath. But who…
Reading time: 2 mins Apparently we are rubbish at it, us Brits. We’d rather quietly seethe than give voice to any kind of negative comment or any hint that we are complaining. I’m an occasional complainer, mainly because I just don’t see the need to bother with things I consider mundane so I tend to save up my complainments*…
Reading time: 2 mins Some wise person once said “Best laid plans are soonest avoided”. Admittedly it may have been me… My weekend was hiijacked by shopping (whilst we waited on the electricians finishing) so I have a couple of new shirts, a night out with our friends (and rather delicious steak!), and a car boot sale which included…