Weekend Away in the Peaks

February 24th, 2010

Finding the Way

We just got back from our annual weekend away with friends.

As usual I took the GPS down with me do do some OpenStreetMapping,  however the map is so good these days that apart from the odd postbox and having to reclassify a track to a road there was not a huge amount to add. I was even able to use the garmin files to successfully navigate a small walk.

This left plenty of time to drink a few beers and take lots of pictures :)

New Year. New Blog. Probably the same old story.

January 21st, 2010

New Year New Starter

So here I am again. I’ve switch the blog from serendipity to wordpress. Despite the possible security issues with  wordpress, I’ve a number of wordpress blogs and I have a script which should help me keep them all up to date using svn.

In addition, I’m in the process of moving my hosting from gradwell to a Virtual Machine hosted by bytemark partly because it will be cheaper for me and also because I was finding it hard getting support questions answered by  gradwell. This also means that at low volumes the response time from a dedicated server is much faster than from shared hosting. With the rollout of google’s new Caffeine infrastructure it’s likely that speed will become a factor in the search results.

So I’ve also built a new template for the site. It’s basically a cut down hacked around version of the standard wordpress kubrik template. From the previous site I’ve cut down on the use of colour and I’ve dropped headers entirely and kept a single sidebar. There are lots of tweaks that still need to be applied.

Before

After

So, I’m hoping to provide regular updates on my usual activities… Progress on the bread making front, photography, OpenStreetMap, Bedlamites and whatever else comes up :) In reality I probably won’t end up doing anything for another 3 months.

Broken Silence

September 10th, 2009

I really do plan to try and keep this up to date more often as I sort through my photo’s expect some updates to appear. First up is the photo’s I took at the Friends of Bedlam AGM and end of Fringe Party.

New passport.

October 24th, 2008

New Bitish Passport
Finally. I have a new Nationality and passport to go with it.

I’m impressed by the efficiency of of Identity and passport agency service. I had an interview with them on Tuesday to “confirm my identity” and the new passport arrived today.

Holiday on Lewis!

June 1st, 2008


Photos from Last months holiday in Lewis have finally been uploaded to my Flickr account