Gordon’s Place

I’ve downloaded the lastest, open beta of IE 7 to mess around with and it seems that the IE team have learned a thing or two from Firefox’s success. In particular, they’ve developed a remarkably familiar looking search box at the top of the screen, next to the address box. I use that box a [...]

Supposed to be working on some of my home projectes today, so needless to say I’m busy doing anything I can to avoid working. This is pretty neat, though. Throw one of your photos at The Rasterbator, tell it how big you want your poster and you get back a PDF which is guaranteed to [...]

It turns out that you can subscribe to iCal feeds in Outlook. All you need is Remote Calendar from SoureForge ( and probably this and this from Microsoft ) and you’ll be able to setup a subscription from Outlook. If you have the calendar download into your main Outlook calendar, then it will also end [...]

There are three novels sitting on my desk, all newly arrived from Amazon. I couldn’t work out which one to start on first ( kid in the sweet shop syndrome ), so I read the first sentence of each. Which do you fancy? The first one hooked me.

Some hours before dawn Henry Perowne, a neurosurgeon, [...]