Record uptime!
Depressingly I had to power down my general purpose linux server at work on Friday, it had a super-uptime of 600 days!
ian@animal:~> uptime
2:14pm up 600 days 5:37, 5 users, load average: 0.03, 0.02, 0.00
Spyderco Leeds 2008
Royal Armouries Leeds
Portrait of Sal Glesser
Blenheim Sky Line
Fiddling
I’ve been messing about with the underlying wensite structure and have finally given in and made it work via a load of PHP functions (I hope Ryan doesn’t read this…).
I’ve also fiddled about with the style sheet and given the site a bit more texture, looks nicer now I think. Big new section coming soon…
Litton mistake
When I started researching my family tree I did what most people do and headed straight up the paternal line.
It took me a good few years but I managed to get back to my great, great, great Grandfather William Atkinson, born about 1817. I found him on the cencus and, unbeknown to me at the time, made a fatal misreading of his place of birth multiple times on the cencus.
iPhone Location Finding
At MacWorld this week Apple unveiled a new software update which lets the iPhone (and iPod touch to a lesser extent) ‘find’ itself. Since it has no GPS chip in it the only way that it can do this is by triangulating a postion based on signal strength from known WiFi hotspots and celluar radio towers.
Photos
I’ve been off work and stuck in the house so I’ve revamped the photos section of the website. I’ve made a new categorised landing page for the photos, removed a couple of old galleries and added several new galleries including some generic onces where I can add single photos if I want to. I’ve also completely replaced all of the knives photos with new ones taken in my Blue Peter light tent and also added several new knives.