This is the weblog of Brian Curd. A lot of it is written on the spur of the moment and any benefit you gain from it is worth exactly what you paid!
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I have, pretty much, switched over from Windows XP to Mac OS X, but I still need an XP machine to run a couple of programs which I use daily. There are a few solutions to this, I’ll leave you to search for them online, but I have been using Parallels for some time here [...]
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Simon mentioned Twitter in an email earlier and asked if I used it. Well I have of course heard of it but couldn’t see the point from the descriptions I read. Anyhow, today I decided to give it a try and you’ll notice a new widget down there on the left of this page showing [...]
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Filed under: Home, Isle of Wight, Software, Techie
The Isle of Wight is reported to have some of the best skies for astronomy in the UK; in order to prove and quantify this, the local Astronomical Society recently purchased a Sky Quality Meter (SQM) (shown below) and we are slowly lending it out to members so they can take reading from various places [...]
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Filed under: Astronomy, Hobbies, Isle of Wight, Software, Techie
Yet another blog upgrade completed!
This time I chose a slightly different method which made things a lot easier. I used the WP Plugin called Wordpress Automatic Upgrade (WPAU) which is available as a free download here.
Everything seems to be working so I think I’ll leave it be for a while!
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Filed under: Hosting, Software, Techie
Have you heard about the Geograph British Isles project? it’s a great site which set out to accumulate photos from every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland - buildings, landscapes etc.
So far, about 70% of the squares are complete with at least 1 picture with the remaining blanks in some pretty wild places [...]
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Filed under: Hobbies, Isle of Wight, Photography, Software
You know the feeeling, you wait for ages for a bus then two come along together!
Well that’s exactly how I feel about WordPress! As I mentioned earlier, I hadn’t bothered with the last few upgrades and finally took the plunge with v2.5.1. Guess what? a few days later and along comes v2.6!
Anyhow, it’s now installed, [...]
When I last tried posting to WordPress from this MacBook, everything appeared as one long sentence and I had to drop the WYSIWYG interface and edit the HTML source for the post in order to make the thing readable. Hardly the best way to blog. The spec for v2.5.1 suggestes that the problem has been [...]
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Filed under: Funny, Isle of Wight, Software, Techie
I have just upgraded this blog to Wordpress 2.5.1 having not bothered for a few releases. All seems to have gone well but if you do spot anything strange, please let me know.
There are a few new features which I’ll have a go at sometime and they also claim to have sorted out a very [...]
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I had to go over to St Lawrence at the weekend and duly entered the address details into my (previously!) trusted Tomtom GPS only to be warned that I may be driving to an area where they drive on the right!
Unless there is something I don’t know about the Southern part of the Island, the [...]
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Filed under: Funny, Hardware, Isle of Wight, Software
I’ve had a batch of calls this week from people who can’t get their PCs started.
It seems the last few days of warmer weather are causing a few problems. Of course it may be a coincidence but I can’t remember 4 hard drives failing in as many days. My suspicion is that the relatively sudden [...]
