the Meccano Magazine

29Jun09

One of my favourite magazines as a kid was the wonderful Meccano Magazine.

… over time Meccano Magazine became a general hobby magazine aimed at “boys of all ages”. Aside from Meccano related articles, it also featured Hornby trains, Dinky Toys and other products of Meccano Ltd, plus a wide variety of general interest articles, including, [...]

Filed under: things from the past   |  Leave a Comment
Tags: boys' magazines, hobbies, meccano, meccano magazine, old magazines

having fun with software

27Jun09

One of the things I like to do is play with software.
That is, I like downloading software and opening it and tweaking around with it  – all just for the fun of exploring new stuff.
I should say that I have all the software I need for what I do, which is not a [...]

Filed under: software   |  4 Comments
Tags: software, inkscape, photoshop, BlogDesk, fun with software, software at home, free software, the gimp, indesign, scribus, openoffice, iicinternet, netdrive, google docs, soho, wavepad, audacity, wordpress, HTMLKit, thunderbird, firefox, google chrome, opera, orca browser, google reader