Annoyances and things like them
It seems to have been a week of minor annoyances. Particularly with regard to this website. For some bizarre and as yet unknown reason the VM upon which this site resides keeps losing track of time, by up to ten hours. The upshot of this – and I haven’t been able to track down exactly [...]
A cycle full of awesome
I don’t often blog here about work, mainly because It’s not (at the moment) open source (it will be come July, never you fear). The people who aren’t reading this blog for open source-related stuff (which to be fair is probably a reasonably high proportion; after all I’ve done a lot of photography and rant-blogging [...]
That was the year that was
It’s interesting how the number of people subscribing to this blog dropped by almost half after I published this mosiac of my photos from the anti Prop8 protest in Boston and this rant about the Bishop of Lancaster. In actual fact it looks like FeedBurner can no longer see the number of Livejournal-based subscribers to [...]
Meet the meatpuppet
Matt Revell has started posting a series of interviews with the Launchpad Development Team. His interview of yours truly, Meet Graham Binns, is the first up: Matthew: What can we go and look at that you’ve done on Launchpad? Graham: The bugs pages ! Actually, a great deal of my work is work you don’t [...]
Leaving on a jet plane
A cliché of a title, I know, but it’s late and I’m past being able to think about it. Yes, dear readers, I’m off on my travels again. Tomorrow I’m off to London (rather stupidly I’ve got to fly from Manchester to Gatwick because there’s no train journey that would get me to London from [...]
Bauble
The great range of apps that we see hosted in Launchpad never ceases to amaze me. Take Bauble for example: Bauble is a biodiversity collection manager. It is intended to be used by botanic gardens, herbaria, arboreta, etc. to manage their collection information. It is a open, free, cross-platform alternative to BG-Base and similiar software. [...]
Launchpad to be open sourced
Mark Shuttleworth, spaceman, ideas man, Ubuntu founder and fearless leader at Canonical Towers announced yesterday that Launchpad will be open sourced within the next 12 months. This is pretty cool news. With Launchpad, we make a big deal of supporting free and open-source software. Our aim is to provide a central platform through which people [...]
Get your arses to Ubuntu Live
If you're one of the people that's here for the technical guff rather than the writing or photography guff, you'll be interested (you will be interested) to note that registration for Ubuntu Live 2008 is now open. From t'website: Ubuntu Live is a vibrant and important gathering of IT professionals, government and business leaders, educators, [...]
Juiced
I'm waiting for Ubuntu JeOS (pronounced Juice, by the way) to download at the moment so that I can do some virtualised stuff. Well, more accurately, so that I can do some virtualised stuff without having to wait for ever and ever and ever for X to start when I don't need it. Since JeOS [...]
From Euston, with Love
I'm writing this from the concourse at London Euston, where I'm perched atop my luggage waiting for my train home to Lancaster. I wouldn't have been perched atop what is, let me tell you, a damn uncomfortable bag were it not for the fact that I rather over-prepared for the lack of a Victoria Line [...]
One of those catch-up posts
There are far too many of these these days. I don't know whether it's the fact that I'm working that's done it – as I think I've said before working from home and tracking your own time tends to make you that little bit more honest, which means I don't really want to waste my [...]
Busy, busy, busy
I started a new job today with a really cool company (of which I may speak more if I can find out what company policy is on such matters). I am very tired and slightly frazzled for various reasons, and have written bugger all, which isn't so good I did, however, discover what happens if [...]
Not dead, but not quite alive
Well hello! What do you mean ‘who the hell are you?’ It’s me! Um… yeah. Been away a while haven’t I? Not quite a month, but it’s getting on for being that long. Oh well, we can but press on, can we not? Consider this an apology, then, for my extended absence from the blogosphere. [...]
Goosebumps
"Aha!" I hear you all cry, "An update at last!" Well, yes. And yes, I’m going to stick my usual excuse in, which is "Busy, very busy." Also, I’ve developed a stinker of a head cold, which has left my sinuses filled with something not unakin to that white, fish-smelling glue that they give you [...]
While There’s Time
A brief lull in the busyness that seems to be my lot at the moment, brought on by having just got home and additionally by waiting to see what Sarah would like to eat for tea (Lamb Kare Lomen or a green salad being the two main options), finds me sitting at the computer with [...]
Getting back on the wagon
I slept later today than I meant to. For some reason, be it age or a lack of practise, staying up until past two in the morning doesn’t sit well with me any more, and it left me feeling drained, hence the going back to sleep when I should be getting up and working mojo [...]
Time and Tide
Too much going on and too little time to write about it, even though I was supposed to be on holiday this last week. So to summarise, we have bullet points: Redundancy, probably. But a month’s paid redundancy notice, so that’s okay Looks like I might have some work in the short term but… …It [...]
The Todo List
I should know better than to not save my drafts before trying out some new feature of Firefox that I’ve never tried before. Grr. Tempted as I am, though, to file the just-lost post under "Fuck it, I’ll do it later" I’ll try to start again. Where was I? Oh yes. I have lots to [...]
An Update From the Wild
Very Tired. Worn out, in fact. Somehow I’ve managed to not blog since August 8th, which is a shocking state of affairs. I’ve not had a particularly hectic month by my standards, but it’s been one of those months where you keep finding things that need doing (and paying for) and, try as you might [...]
Mob Man
Once again I’ve been playing the role of the New Boy today. Monstermob Ltd., or at least its Lancaster office, is located at number seventy-six Church Street. It’s an old building. Very old, in fact. Apparently the front of the building dates from 1730s but the rest of the building may well be up to [...]
My Time With The Mob
I have to consider it a good omen, even though I don’t believe in them, even though it is Friday the 13th today. As I pulled out of the driveway this morning, blearily rubbing sleep from my eyes and trying to shake off the drowsiness that has been hovering over me for much of the [...]
Busy Man
It would seem that I am far more adept at distracting myself than I first thought. It being Easter weekend, and thus not meaning anything to me (if you happen to find that the crucifixion and resurrection are important to you and take offence at this I apologise), I decided that I would use my [...]
The Long, Hard Slog Towards Apotheosis
I’ve had a nice weekend off: spent some time tinkering with Muse but didn’t do any serious writing – I’m saving that for Wednesday, did some shoe shopping with Sarah (women’s shoes are some of the most elusive beasts on the planet, I think, beaten only by the Aye-Aye and the Kakapo), managed to get [...]
Meta
Some more metablogging, which I thought I wouldn’t be doing but which is at the same time – like anything else one shouldn’t be doing, such as eating flapjacks when you’re supposed to be on a diet – strangely compelling: Tom Reynolds has written a nice informative piece about not getting fired for blogging. Luckily [...]
