The obvious thing to do with a portable device which knows where you are and can display maps as your location changes is to use it for navigation and tracking. This obviously requires that you put the thing where you can see it as you go along. Continue reading ‘Mounting the iPhone 3G on a bicycle’
29
Jun
09
I am no longer a school governor
You may or may not have known that I was a school governor; in a sense it doesn’t matter since that is no longer the case: I have resigned. Continue reading ‘I am no longer a school governor’
28
Jun
09
Shingles is better avoided
SInce last Monday I’ve had shingles, which is a disease usually associated with the elderly. Shingles is a disease you can only get if you’ve had chicken pox in the past: the virus remains dormant in your body until your immune system is in a weakened state, at which point it reasserts itself as shingles.
Continue reading ‘Shingles is better avoided’
12
May
09
Formula 1 rules for 2011 onwards
- No race distance shall be longer than 310km
- Each car must complete the race using only its fuel allowance for that race
- The fuel allowance for a team spending £50 million or less on development each year shall be 100 litres per car per race
- The fuel allowance per car shall reduced by one litre for each £1m (or part thereof) over £50 million spent on development
- Fuel shall conform to one of the following standards:
- European/ British Automotive Fuel Specifications for Diesel Fuel, BS EN 590
- European/ British Automotive Fuel Specifications for Unleaded Petrol, BS EN 228
- European/ British Automotive Fuel Specifications for LPG, BS EN 589
18
Apr
09
We’re married!
Cerys and I were married in a small ceremony at Winchester Register Office yesterday, followed by lunch at the excellent Water Margin restaurant in North Baddesley. Continue reading ‘We’re married!’
01
Apr
09
I am now a CAcert assurer
Here is my Certified CAcert Assurer certificate, which has been digitally signed by CAcert education officer Bernhard Froehlich. Verifying his digital signature on that PDF is a little more difficult than one might hope, as neither Preview on OS X or the GNOME equivalent have any such facility. The only PDF viewer I know of which can perform the task is Adobe Reader.
To verify the signature on that document with Adobe Reader you need to import the CAcert class 1 root certificate into Adobe Reader and mark it as trusted.
To do this in Reader 9, open the Document Menu and select Manage Trusted Identities… then click the Add Contacts… button in the dialog box which appears. That brings up another dialog box, in which you click Browse… to get a standard file selection window in which you should select the file containing the CAcert Class 1 root. Selecting the file takes you back to the dialog titled Choose Contacts to Import. Now select the certificate you just added in the top box of that dialog and click Trust…. Ensure that both Use this certificate as a trusted root and Certified documents are ticked. Click OK, then Import, and finally Close. And you’re done.
I’ve tested the above process on my Linux and OS X laptops; hopefully the same mechanism works on Windows.
24
Mar
09
Listlessness
Several people have asked for our Wedding List. Since our house already contains at least two of everything we need, we haven’t got such a thing.
We don’t, however, have much on the walls: so I thought it might be nice if everyone who wants to give us a wedding present picks one of their photos, gets it printed on canvas (or otherwise made wall-hangable and big), and gives us that. Anyone with a low opinion of their photographic handiwork is welcome to find an appropriately licensed image on flickr.
Opinions on this are welcome, before we make it policy…
20
Mar
09
Etsy is marvellous
Etsy can, I think, be considered a marvellous thing. Continue reading ‘Etsy is marvellous’
17
Mar
09
Podcast episode 5 thread
My preceding post documents my problems buying a MacBook Pro from the online Apple Store UK. I find it rather confusing that this was allowed to happen. Continue reading ‘Apple Customer Experience Could Use Some Work’
