Having been used for little but mass storage and updating my Road Angel via VMWare, my Workstation was in need of TLC. I consolidated my Windows programs onto Parallels on the Mac, disposing of VMWare and Beth’s old Celeron (!) sloth. Impressively, both the Road Angel and Garmin GPS just […]

Take a look at Google Analytics. Yet again, Google pull it off. What a great tool. Now I wonder who my reader in Manchester is. Why not announce yourself?

Perfect: unpack, install software, connect. Press “scan” button and select “scan to picture” on the printer. The picture simply appears in your Pictures folder. Too easy. Obviously, it just printed, in colour, fuss free, first time. If you don’t get this, you haven’t connected an HP printer to a Mac. […]

Why must people deviate from proper standards? Installing WordPress on a Mac caused me some grief simply because telling PHP to connect to the database at localhost didn’t work. Who would have thought that localhost couldn’t be resolved? I was saved because Beth was ironing my “There’s no place like […]

So, the hard drive on my server failed in February – of course I had a backup – and it’s taken me this long to restore my sites. The trouble with working is… March was fairly adventure-free apart from, inevitably, motorcycling. April saw me return to Spain to finish my […]

Apart from installation falling over on permissions (of course), using WordPress, is, in the words of my beloved mechanics teacher, a Mr Atkinson, “Too easy for words.”