Category: Web

Glasgow Openstreetmap

November 26, 2007 - Internet , Openstreetmap , Web - by admin - No Comments

For those that may find this sort of thing useful, I’ve started keeping a daily dump of the Glasgow area of the Openstreetmap database around here. Also in the OSM directory will be a weekly dump of the Glasgow area.

FON & BT

October 4, 2007 - Technology , Web - by admin - No Comments

BT and FON have joined forces, and now it would seem that BT are inviting all their broadband subscribers to share their wifi through FON. I’m unsure if this means that BT are updating the Homehub firmware, or figuring out another way of deploying it, but it’s a good move […]

Belle de Jour 2

September 19, 2007 - Books , Web - by admin - No Comments

A while back I wrote briefly about the new TV series based on the Belle De Jour blog. Well, it’s about to hit the screens. ITV2 has a run down on the series here

MediaMultiWiki

September 4, 2007 - Linux , Technology , Web - by admin - No Comments

For a while now it’s been desirable to have one Mediawiki installation, with multiple virtualhost installations using that as a base. There are other ways, but I found this method to suit our situation quite nicely. There are instructions at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_code_layout but they’re old and out of date. A lot […]

Flickr

July 15, 2007 - Lodge , Technology , Web - by admin - 1 Comment

Ok people… For a while now I’ve used Gallery2 – ever since it came out actually. Before then, I used Gallery1. You can see the pattern. I now have 17GB of files and am starting to feel the pinch. Someone sell the Flickr idea to me. Is it better than […]