Status-Q

I'm working on a substantial document at present, which involves lots of cross-referencing between sections. It really helps to be able to refer to more than one section of the document at once. Here's the setup I like best:

This is Word 2004, showing three windows onto the same document. The top one, where I do most of the work, also has the document map switched on, for quicker navigation. I've used two separate windows on the lower display, rather than showing two pages side-by-side in one wide window, so that I can scroll them independently.

The other good thing about this arrangement is that it covers up everything else, which helps to reduce distraction!

Pixels are addictive. The more you have of them, the more you want. I'm just waiting for my pals at Newnham Research to produce something for the Mac...

A pronunciation guide for Cyrillic characters:

I flew home from Moscow this afternoon.

When I was last in Red Square in 1981, the guards were goose-stepping up and down in front of the Kremlin wall.

Yesterday, not only could I go inside the Kremlin, but a guard inside was feeding the birds.

Very different memories...

Well, I'm in Nizhni Novgorod for a workshop on Proactive Computing. We came through Moscow on the way here, and the airport looks very different from when I last visited it in pre-Perestroika 1981.

Some aspects of Nizhni airport still have the good old Soviet feel, though.

My friend Martin & I went for a wonderful walk in the Suffolk countryside this afternoon. We enjoyed seeing the sheep and the deer, but at one point the footpath took us rather closer to this handsome chap than was entirely comfortable:

He's huge (that's quite a big fence) and beautiful, and more so when you're only 20 feet away, but those horns do look as if he's been sharpening them specially for you. He didn't make any threatening movements, though, and neither, I can promise you, did we...

...and man's.

In Seattle again - snow has been forecast for the last two days but hasn't arrived.

Meanwhile, at the Happels', dinner time is very cosy.

John has a nice picture of the dead Windows screen at Cambridge station. It's been like that for ages. Here's a picture I took more than two months ago using my phone. It wasn't the first time I'd seen it then, and it still hasn't been fixed:

My friend Tim Glauert jokes that they need three displays so they can display "Departures", "Arrivals" and "Please press Ctrl-Alt Del". This is why Newnham Research is going to do so well...

More shots from my recent visit to the Netherlands:






Farming the wind

Spent a day and a night in Bruges recently - a wonderful city. We stayed in a small hotel by a canal - here's where we had breakfast:

More pictures from that trip in due course.