Archive for June, 2009

Some progress

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Well, sounds like we should be able to get mains water to the plot, which might be good news. Let’s just wait and see how much it will cost and decide if a boreholes isn’t a better more economic solution. Also just received a full set of draft warrant plans, and everything is looking very [...]

Rapid Weaver

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Been trying out RapidWeaver for editing the site, very simple to use but not easy to control what’s happening wywiwyg editor inserts unnecessary xhtml all over the place. Some quite nice templates and I’m sure you can do nice things with it if you tweak. The point is without tweaking it’s really not good enough [...]

Facebook

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

Had to give in to popular demand and set up a facebook profil. I did it mostly to keep in touch with old school friends I met up with at the end of May for our 50ths and also to check out the photos they took. It’s interesting, seems to be a very female kind [...]

Bing

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Had a look a Microsofts new “semantic” search beta. I’m sure there’s no true semantic web stuff in there, but I have to admit I like the clean interface and discovery does seem to function. http://www.bing.com/ It really annoys me when the hype confuses natural language search and semantic web. I just hate these sites that [...]

Portree High School Reunion

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

Was up on Skye for a school reunion with classmates to celebrate our 50 years on planet earth. We were very lucky with brilliant sunshine every day. Some pics of the event available here. Had some great evenings with old friends, just catching up. Had some extra days to drive around and see the usual [...]

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