Wiblog - Paul's Wibblings

New Map Software

08/07/10

After a long struggle the first public release of our mapping application, rewritten to use the Ordnance Survey's OpenSpace server is now online at last. As before it lets you browse the country using Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 scale maps and both create routes to download for use on your GPS and upload tracks from your GPS to see where you've been. read more ...

Fscking Server

22/03/10

So the house server PC, which sits under the desk in my study, has been getting a little noisy lately so I thought I'd move it further back and while I was at it I'd vacuum under there as it hadn't been done for a long while. read more ...

Acer Aspire One

11/02/10

I've had this Acer netbook for a couple of weeks now and fiddled about with it and so it's probably time to review where I am with it. ... read more ...

Linux on Acer D250 Netbook

31/01/10

As it's now a couple of days since I received my new Acer Aspire One D250 netbook I thought it worth writing down some initial impressions, both good and bad. read more ...

Chumby

21/11/09

I've fancied getting a Chumby ever since they first appeared back a couple of years ago ... read more ...

Sharing Audio

23/09/09

I'm a great fan of Logitech's Squeezebox range and I've wibbled about them in the past here. We have two, a Boom and a Classic and they're both excellent in their place but ... read more ...

Moving SQL-Ledger to Ubuntu Hardy

26/01/09

I struggled to find any documentation on this so here's some. This assumes everything is running on the same PC: Apache, Postgres, SQL-Ledger and you as the user. read more ...

Thunderbird and Usenet

26/01/09

Just a quick note for people who, like me, have upgraded to Thunderbird 2 and are missing the newsworthy plug in. read more ...

Hardy Heron

22/07/08

Well, having spent another evening struggling with it I've now got Kubuntu 8.04 more or less sorted out. Opera 9.51 seems OK (unlike last time)... read more ...

KDE Bouncing Cursor

21/07/08

It's five to midnight and I've spent much of this evening putting Ubuntu 8.04 on my laptop so here's a quick tip. ... read more ...

Current status: (via twitter)
Paul was stunned by some of talent on show at "Home Made in Shetland" #shetland #screenplay

I am currently reading:

Smoke in the Valley
by David Kynaston
Great Northern?
by Arthur Ransome
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner

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Word of the Day:

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