Pub Gateway is now available for your viewing pleasure. A few things to note: The design is simple, because I’m not an artist and can’t create amazing logos. I’ll probably pay someone to come up with a decent design and logo at a later date. There are only a few pubs available as I haven’t […]
Thought for the day
Thought for the day (which probably wouldn’t get onto Radio 4): Any sane mail server logs the IP address of any remote server which connects to it and attempts to deliver spam. It’s possible to map an IP address to a physical location, with a reasonable degree of accuracy (if you pay for a good […]
UKUUG Spring conference
Three days of this week were taken up by the UKUUG Spring 2010 conference, which I seemed to volunteer to lead the organisation on once again (and for next year as well by the looks of it!). I’ve still not fully recovered, probably as a result of going down with a cold the morning after […]
Debt Relief Bill
Apparently I’m responsible for it not going through! 🙂
Pub site progress II
Work on my pub site is coming along faster than I had expected, slowed down only by my need to concentrate on my Open University course. So far I have all the data required to add a handful of pubs, though I still need to buy a new digital camera so that I can go […]
Computer books clear out
Continuing my general spring clean clear out, I have the following computer books (all in excellent condition) which I no longer need and are free to a good home: DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & Dom (SitePoint) Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP (Wrox) Texinfo (Free Software Foundation) SEO Warrior (O’Reilly) The Art […]
Free stuff giveaway clearout
I’m having an early spring clean at my flat in an attempt to free up space so that I can fit everything on my bookcase and see the floor for once. The following items are currently earmarked for good homes: Stargate SG-1 seasons 1-5 (boxed sets). Various Doctor Who videos, including Dalek and Cybermen boxed […]
Pub site progress
Thanks to Kirk, I now have a rough idea of the equipment I need to work on my pub site—in short it seems that buying a new digital camera and using my existing GPS logger and then syncronising the two will suffice. I’ve also registered the relevant domains (one with a short URL for redirects) […]
GPS, camera and notebook gadget help
For one of the sites I’m going to be working on I need a gadget which can perform the following tasks: Take photos. Log the GPS coordinates of the photo automatically, either as part of the meta-data associated with the photo or in a separate file. Make notes about the photo, e.g. ‘this is the […]
Where to from here?
Now that my thesis corrections have been accepted I am looking for the next challenge, though I’m struggling to find an area to focus on. My main interests seem to be politics, business (which includes finance and insurance) and law. I’m not as interested as I used to be in computing—I now see IT in […]