Today I’m going to write about my lovely coffee machine.
The model I chose is the Isomac Giada; not quite as pretty as a Francis Francis X1, but still quite nice to look at (and a whole bucket of coffee cheaper). I now see they’ve added an ‘X6′ to their range, which proudly boasts the addition of plastic to their materials, so they’re obviously going down-market 
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I have just started reading “Mother Tongue: The English Language” by Bill Bryson (published 1990). This is one of several interesting books that I have read on language - titles such as “The King’s English” by Kingsley Amis, (more…)
Having talked about some of my perceived issues with the up-coming Word 2007 over the last couple of days, today I am going to address a topic I nearly covered back in October last year.
It’s a core feature of Word. It will make your life better. It will free you up to write more clearly. It will save you time, it will save a designer’s life. It will save your company’s brand image. (more…)
Yesterday, I made cruel jibes about MS Word 2007’s new ‘Margin’ ribbon-bar button. Today I’ll look at the Ribbon Bar itself in more detail, and some of the other new features. (more…)
Recently, I posted about my confusion over the MS Shareware Starter Kit. Well, the mists of confusion are lifting, a little. (more…)
In July 2005, Microsoft released a piece of software for Visual Studio .Net developers called the Shareware Starter Kit (SSK). A flurry of blog activity foillowed in the next few months about this news ~ but so far I have yet to find some real feedback on the kit. Hmmm. (more…)