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New Gallery (again)

Time for another make-over: my old gallery subdomain was fine at the time, but has suffered from 5 years of neglect and has become rather dated and annoying…

WordPress, lighttpd and HTTP 500 errors

So this has been driving me potty, but thanks to this bug report and lots of checkbox clicking it turns out that the Google Sitemap plugin v2.7 from…

The Real UK Citizenship Test

A while ago, I noted that the initial UK Citizenship Test was a) hard and b) pointless – the recently proposed revision isn’t much better, but thankfully Twitter…

Peeko-Computer

Back in 1982, AcornSoft released a program designed to be a gentle introduction to understanding the internals of computer operation and 6502 assembly language. I found the original…

17 London Underground Maps You Never Knew You Needed – BuzzFeed

http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/london-underground-maps-you-never-knew-you-needed Brilliant visualisations.

Homemade hex-grid

I’ve been wanting to make my own hex-grid flash modifiers for a while but was stumped for a reliable and robust mounting system for plastic drinking straws until…

Android 4.2 on a Nexus 7

So the latest update isn’t all sunshine and kittens: it’s nowhere near as soul eating as iOS 6 was when I found what had happened to the Maps,…

Glenfiddich and the X100

So having previously raved about how discrete the {X100} is and how good it can cope with low-light, here’s a few shots from a recent trip around the…

CloudFlare: Welcome to the Collective

Home hosting of content is a great idea (I’ve been doing it for over a decade) but at some stage the cons start to outweigh the pros. In…

Why buy a new camera ?

This post is sort of a follow on from last year when I wrote about how great it was to seek out 5 year old hardware as it…

Fuji X100 slowdown after putting SD card in a Mac or iPad

If you have used an iPad SD card adaptor to review images taken on a Fuji {X100}, then you may find that the camera is slow to respond…

PogoPlug and pkgsrc MySQL server

For the most part, I’ve had no real issues building {pkgsrc} on my {PogoPlug}, but all three variants of {MySQL} server failed to build due to a conflicting…

Aperture shooting with multiple cameras and mismatched clocks

Ok, so I’m not that bothered about my camera’s clock, but when shooting with multiple bodies and one happens to be 55 minutes slow, it’s a jarring experience…

PogoPlug, FreeBSD (kirkwood) and pkgsrc

Having bought an end-of-line v2 (pink) PogoPlug, I ignored all the setup guides (of course !) and reflashed the stock u-Boot image with Jeff Doozan’s version. After the…