Entries posted in : 2006

Jun
29
Thu

VMWare

Well been very busy recently, no time for blogging. One task has been setting up VMWare to run some virtual computers. I have a disc of Fedora Core 5 (Linux) to install and will also try to track down a copy of vista to try out. Its all running on XP. Unfortunately I have gotten [...]


May
26
Fri

Minimo 0.15 Mobile device browsing catching up

I was thrilled today to discover that after many months of patiently waiting I can at last have a reasonable browsing experience on my PDA (iPAQ). While I have not looked at versions 0.11 through to 0.14, the release of version 0.15 sees some fantastic improvements to earlier versions. As the version number indicates it [...]


May
10
Wed

How to make a bow drill, the bushman way

For many years now I have been a fan of Ray Mears. Although I don’t know him personally, his TV persona comes across portraying him as the kind of down to earth guy I could get along with. He seems to have no back doors and his deeply held respect for the environment and nature [...]


May
01
Mon

My first redesign, the thinking behind it.

So what has changed and why?
A lot of my day is spent preaching about the virtue of building websites based around objectives and with users and their tasks in mind. So I thought it was about time I started to practice what I preach. My first stop was to check my site statistics and visitor [...]


Apr
24
Mon

Whale Sighting

Not something that happens often so I wanted to record the event. I saw the plume of water and a breach from a distance of around 500-700m away, so unable to determine the species, probably minke though, which are known to pass through the waters off Malin Head, Donegal. By the time we would have [...]