Brush down and spruce up for Snow Leopard

Haven’t been active on here in *ages* – which is a pity. I think Twitter took over and ended up becoming something of a distraction for a while, but that’s started to subside recently.
Anyway, the reason for this quick post is to report that I’ve run through a number of OS X upgrades across [...]

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Testing NextGen Gallery install

I’m testing a build and install issue that was preventing me from using the NextGEN plugin for Wordpress. Hopefully there should be a load of  photos here from my post-Chicago ride.
and with a little luck, the XML Google Maps plugin will pick up on the gallery and the geotags in the photos

…job done.

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YANS (Yet Another New Stablemate)

It’s a little over a year since I took delivery of my Kona Ph.D., and my aging Orange EVO2 got to put its wheels up in the back of the shed pending a careful rebuild when time and budget allowed.  As those of you in the UK will remember, last summer was entirely pup from [...]

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Clever Penguins

Saw this over on Failblog and it made me think about dealing with shark-infested waters in the workplace.  Sometimes the best route to avoid painful conflict is just to get the Hell out of the water.

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Mike Barnsley Centre for Climate Research

A welcome distraction from the normal stuff today, as I picked up from the press releases that the Mike Barnsley Centre for Climate Research is now officially open for business.  Not only that, but Swansea have used their partnership with IBM to stick a new Blue Ice cluster in the research centre for number crunching [...]

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