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Monthly Archives: April 2006
external hard drive
For the last few months I’ve been finding myself constantly moving pictures and music between the laptop and the desktop. The laptop was starting to run out of space, so when quibix mentioned an external hard drive I had one … Continue reading
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playing fair
I’ve finally come to the end of the line with my adventure into motherboards with nVidia chipsets. It’s been a source of annoyance ever since I built my current desktop, but the situation hasn’t improved and I’ve finally run out … Continue reading
more adventures from the garden
As I’ve been taking a fair few pictures recently I’ve found that the easiest way for me to start “sifting” them is to load them onto the machine and run a quick slideshow. It’s simple, quick and allows me to … Continue reading
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Homeward Bound
Time to head back to London! Shame to leave the sunshine behind.
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Brooklyn
Spent a very pleasant morning wandering around Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO.
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New York
Arrived while it was still daylight. Warm, sunny – am I really in New York?
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microformats and personal information
There has been a lot of dicsussion in various forums I watch about how identity management should be performed in a digital environment. Most of the discussion is still centred in theory and debate. It’s quite common to find long … Continue reading
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Edinburgh Castle
Waiting for the bus home after a good evening out in Edinburgh. If only it was a bit warmer!
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exif data
I finally got round to adding an exif data extraction routine for my album scripts, so most pictures now have a correct date and some details about the camera and exposure used. It’s interesting just how much data the exif … Continue reading
interesting post
http://www.silentpenguin.com/archives/2006/04/flying_goes_the.html
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keyboard confusion
I’m running Gnome 2.12 on my laptop and desktop. The desktop is AMD64 FreeBSD -CURRENT and the laptop is i386 with 6-STABLE. They both have experienced problems with setting the correct keyboard layout in the past, but both were working … Continue reading
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letting go
One trait that I’ve found most of the people working on open source share is that they find it hard to let go. I’m guilty of this myself, but have, over the years, found that it’s a neccesity if sanity … Continue reading
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microformats
The microformats site states that microformats are: Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. I think the emphasis is wrong and that what should … Continue reading
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Coastal path
Went for a walk along the coastal path with Mary this afternoon. Weather was glorious. Picture is of St Andrews.
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