Met Phil at breakfast – we’ve scrounged a lift down to the wedding with him in a taxi at 11.00. He’s coming back to Skopelos immediately after the wedding to file his story at the internet cafe. Rachel had been turning her charm on him last night to persuade him to rejoin the party afterwards [...]

Up at 8 o’clock, thoroughly rested after a good night’s sleep. We decided to try out Heather Parson’s book of walks on Skopelos. We don’t do beach holidays, whereas everyone else on Skopelos does. We felt a bit out of place heading off for the hills with rucksack, long trousers, and long sleeved shirts (I [...]

Off to Skopelos – the “Mamma Mia island” – for Robert and Rachel’s wedding next Monday. Rachel had gone out to Skopelos a week earlier to make arrangements, and we were expecting to meet up with most of the other guests en route. Alarm clock went off at 5am. Switched on the radio and heard [...]

Mel produced sweetcorn straight from the garden for dinner this evening. Despite the truly awful summer weather, our first ever crop of organic Scottish sweetcorn was delicious…

We always stress that people should only install the ‘test’ versions of OpenOffice.org on spare PCs. Needless to say I ignored that advice and installed the new Release Candidate on my everyday Eee PC. I’d already installed the 3.0 beta on it without problems, so why not? Anyway, this proved to be a mistake, with [...]

For OpenOffice.org, 2008 is “The Year of 3″ – the year we release OpenOffice.org Version 3, and broadcast to the world the 3 reasons why they should use the software. We’ve reached the end of the beta test, which has been downloaded by thousands of people around the world. The feedback has been tremendous, and [...]

OK, so I’ve discovered that, with enough patience, my Eee PC (original 701 model) can successfully rip DVDs to a USB memory stick. The acid test is now: will the battery last long enough to play back the DVD I used The Shawshank Redemption as a test, playing back through headphones with both the volume [...]