Earlier this week saw the launch of a new website for British Orienteering. For reasons concerned with membership renewal the site has gone live before it is finished, which means that some features are missing or not fully working. First comment is that this is a big improvement on the old site - it looks [...]
I have had a while now and have decided to post a reflection on my two summer orienteering weeks - the O-Ringen and Spey2007. Before commenting on the two events I link to photo 1 and photo 2 of me on the run in on the fourth day of the O-Ringen and photo 1 and [...]
Tip #6 : Enhancing WordPress administration: Whenever I update a WordPress blog I think how overly complicated the ‘Write Post’ page is. There are lots of different pieces that you could use - most of which I have never had cause to touch. The post linked to suggests using Clutter Free to improve matters and, [...]
The new version of WordPress, the software used for this blog, was released yesterday. I took the plunge and updated straight away. Everything seems to be up and fine, but if any of you notice a problem then let me know.
However, on upgrade I noticed a jump in database queries on page load - nearly [...]
Recently I decided that it would be useful to use a task manager. Several of my colleagues are using Remember the Milk and I decided to join them, since then we can share tasks when needed.
I was really impressed with the signup process. It makes sensible use of technology to tell the user whether the [...]
As with many people, my computer rarely gets turned off. It was with interest that I noted the following coming through the blog world in the last week.
Less Watts
This site, from Intel, describes methods available to reduce power consumption on all types of machines running Linux. Available is software and tips that work to keep [...]
Today the army were offering, in conjunction with the local orienteering club, an one hour score event in Swinley forest. As this is fairly close to where I live, I caught a train, and went along - partly to meet with my parents, as they travelled through and collect some post from them.
As my knee [...]
Over the past week I have been following the Rugby World Cup and the Twenty20. Some good games, some good performances, and some bad. Certainly England fall into the bad category after a fairly dismal performance yesterday - a comment that can apply equally to both the rugby and cricket team yesterday.
Overall the Six Nations [...]
The Rugby World Cup started with a ’shock for the French’. I do not understand why it is being labelled as a shock. Yes, the French have been playing well recently, but Argentina have been steadily improving for years now and have now beaten France in five of the last six games. It was always [...]
Google announced this week that Google Reader now has search functionality. I have yet to fully try out the new feature, but the few quick searches I did yesterday worked well.
Also in the announcement was that the unread feed count will now go up to 1000, rather than the old value of 100. Before, if [...]
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