The computer saga continues…. After my motherboard blew, I remembered there were a couple of old boards at the bottom of my Big Box of Computer Bits. I went a looked, and joy, both of them took my processor and memory. One of them, I knew, wasn’t working (don’t ask me why I’d kept it); […]
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Woes, woes, woes. Last night, I decided (because I was bored and peed off with learning the ins and outs of various CMSs – I’m still trying to find some easy, simple CMSs for future clients – WordPress is getting a bit heavyweight nowadays, with too perhaps many bells and whistles for a n00b to […]
…is how I’m feeling today. Tired, out of sorts, and my left knee is giving it some welly. Hope I’m not coming down with the bug that Son came around with last week. Seem to be coming up against frustrations and impediments with everything. Short of money (so what’s new?), can’t seem to get the […]
…in astrological terms, being 59 means you’re in the middle of your second Saturn Return, when Saturn transits its own place for the second time in your life. It’s generally regarded as a pretty heavy time, of restrictions and difficulties. By accident, I’ve just stumbled on the blog of a fellow astrologer who was born […]
….I think my Astro*Diary site may now be taking off – today I have scooped the other astrology sites with an article by Robert Blaschke on the phenomenal Susan Boyle. Every astrologer has been gagging for her chart data and I got it (almost) first. He sent it to me as a PDF; it took […]
Living in a remote(ish) rural paradise far from the milling wotsits, I tend to miss quite a lot of things going on in the rest of the country. For instance, I’ve only just become aware of this anti-terrorist poster poster campaign going on. It sounds like something dreamed up by a satirist; unfortunately, it’s not. […]
….so we went for another drive yesterday, through a section of the Galloway Forest we’d last visted three years ago. What a difference! Much of the trees have recently been logged; so instead of dark brooding masses of conifers, there was moonscapes of bare trashed ground. Since the Galloway Forest is primarily an industrial-scale tree-growing […]
….I completely redesigned the front end of this website. I spent a couple of days beforehand cruising around web-designers’ websites, putting myself in the place of a potential customer and noting what worked and what didn’t (tip no.1: don’t boast about how your sites are correctly coded and conform to web standards, and how your […]
…well, obviously. Will post properly soon.
This site will probably be offline for a few days from tomorrow (Monday); the hosting fee is due and I haven’t yet found the dosh. However, it will only be a temporary interruption – a fortnight at the most. Byeee!