Posted in Articles on July 5, 2012
There's been a fair bit of press recently on the privacy issues surrounding the UK's smart meter roll-out - currently in its foundation stage (figuring out how it's actually going to work) before the
Posted in Articles on July 4, 2012
I have not posted about peak oil for a long while, mainly because if people get it, they get it, and if they don't, or won't, then they are almost certainly not interested. Either way there's no point
Posted in Development on June 15, 2012
ALT+Space is your friend Mention Quicksilver and the more techie OSX users out there will wax lyrical about its ease of use and its powerful features. They have a point! Windows has always been a bit
Posted in Woodwork on June 11, 2012
We recently visited Woodfest Wales. It was more Forestry than Woodcraft but still had lots of stalls selling handmade furniture as well as a huge 2nd hand tool area (I had to keep my wallet firmly in
Posted in Smallholding and Woodland on April 3, 2012
Aerial view of our land (the middle bit), woods to the left It has been just over a year since we purchased with our pension - if you're interested more details below - around 26 acres of marginal
Posted in dev-sys on January 28, 2012
Simple one-liner that I use when I've lots of files to add to a subversion repository: for FILETOADD in `svn stat | awk '{ print $2 }'`; do svn add $FILETOADD; done
Posted in Fam on January 27, 2012
S had a lovely surprise today when she opened a parcel addressed to her and it turned out to contain a few goodies* for her birthday from the Acton Scott Working Farm, where the popular BBC Victorian
Posted in dev-sys on January 22, 2012
Instead of being outdoors I geeked out indoors this weekend and amongst other things installed a Bitcoin daemon on a public facing server so I could have a play with the API/RPC features. Below I
Posted in Fam, Smallholding and Woodland on January 4, 2012
Here's a quick pictorial how-to for making a rudimentary seesaw that we then put into our woodland to help keep the kids entertained. I started with two bits of larch taken from the woodpile, this
Posted in Smallholding and Woodland on January 1, 2012
We got the woodland shelter finished over the christmas break and tidied up the clearing a bit. It's now ready for us adding some simple storage space (so we can store teabags etc there) and the final