I’ve discovered a few neat things in my Internet gleanings this week, like the driving game I mentioned yesterday and Ubiquity (a fascinating Firefox add-on – I expect to post about this one again once I have discovered a few … Continue reading →

Over the past few years, I have built up a large electronic music collection, consisting of music I have created, personal copies of my CDs, free internet downloads and a lot of songs from emusic.com; software to organise and play … Continue reading →

Just a short post today to try out the code from TwitterCounter and see how many people follow my tweets.

After last week’s expensive brandy (spilt over my Mac keyboard) and subsequent slow recovery (mentioned the following day, I am pleased to announce that things are back to normal and the Mac keyboard is working again. This is good from … Continue reading →

I am still using the spare keyboard this morning; the Mac one seems to be recovering but was still tending to produce random results (and to start typing nonsense, even without my help!) when I tested it last night. Meanwhile, … Continue reading →

I had a late supper last night – pasta, pesto and some home-made bread – and was washing it down with a small glass of brandy when I made a hand to mouth error and spilled what was left. Unfortunately … Continue reading →

About a year or so ago, I replaced my 17″ monitor, which was starting to go a bit fuzzy with a 19″ one picked up from Freecycle. Both were CRT monitors – huge and not the most energy efficient solution … Continue reading →

As I read Chris’ latest blog post, Confessions of a compulsive view-sourcer, I could definitely recognise myself. Does it matter what is “under the hood” on a web page? Definitely if you end up having to maintain it and most … Continue reading →

When I first started using Googlemail I assiduouslychecked the spam folder once or twice per day and deleted all thejunk, keeping things neat and tidy and burning up some more time. After a month or two I realised two things. … Continue reading →