Bonnersfield Lane is a quiet, unmetalled, ancient country lane - right in the centre of suburban Harrow. What a delightful surprise!
I hope I lose interest in Open Street Maps soon, because mapping my local area is proving to be quite an absorbing distraction. Yesterday, I was examining the satellite photographs …
View comments more ...For the past few days I've been playing with the Open Street Maps application. It's a Wiki-like mapping system, that allows you to edit the map. I'm very pleased with the work I've done on the area near my house.
Why bother? Well, I wanted to give someone directions from …
View comments more ...I've just been trying out TextMate on my Mac. Verdict: It's too clever by half.
I currently use SubEthaEdit. It's a nice, no-fuss editor with tabs and syntax highlighting. However, it occasionally hangs annoyingly when connected to a network drive, so I'm open to finding a replacement.
TextMate is often …
View comments more ...I can't remember why, now, but I just worked out what the price of petrol is in the US... 40p per litre. That made me lol - I honestly can't remember paying so little. When I first started driving and paying for my own fuel, I paid about 42p - that was …
View comments more ..."New Image" is a car audio shop at 537 Pinner Rd, North Harrow. I suggest you avoid them, and shop elsewhere. I just bought a car stereo from them, but after wasting my morning they've removed it and I'm back to square one.
To start with, the installation went fine …
View comments more ...The Guardian reports that the Greenland Ice Sheet is melting with unprecedented speed. Oh dear!
View comments more ...I've signed up because a colleague wanted to use it as an example for some work I'm doing. So far, the UI is just grim. Here's a list of issues as I find them...
My easy online photo gallery software is now complete enough to be given a version number. Please welcome version 1.0.beta-1. Browse the example site to get an idea of what it looks like.
Easy Ajax Album is an open source PHP script that enables you to create an …
View comments more ...Easy Ajax Album is an open source PHP script that enables you to create an online photo album in seconds. Just copy the index.php …
View comments more ...I've had loads of requests from people who want to put Flood Maps on their own web-site. Well, I've finally found a way to allow it, and still pay for my server.
Just place the following IFRAME code on your site, and voila!
<iframe style="width:600px;height:600px" src …View comments more ...
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