Doorstepped by my Lib Dem MP, John Leech. He was campaigning for the council elections, they’re proposing better recycling – sounds great. #
Author Archives: simonwheatley
On culinary usability
I love the way Gnocchi floats to the top when it’s done. How much more usable could food get? #
Manchester transport fails when mobile
The bus timetables are in PDFs on the Stagecoach website. The local gov website fails in the browser on my mobile. Brilliantly inaccessible. #
Teasing
That is torture. In the distance I can see the bus I want, but there is no way, even though I am now a brilliant runner, that I can get it. #
Corporate greed
Heading for GeekUp. It feels like they’ve reduced the bus services at the same time as increasing the prices. Where’s my placard? #
YouTube’s blogging API
It seems YouTube’s remote publishing function (XMLRPC, etc) will only publish, not create draft posts. Which seems awkward. #
MyOpenID seemed very slow this…
MyOpenID seemed very slow this morning, @gpen, and yes a flaw occurred to me. I’ve outsourced my keys and now I can’t get in my house. #
Problems with .htaccess and AFP over Netatalk
After yesterdays triumph of establishing contact with my virtual server over AFP, using Netatalk, I was perplexed today to find that my .htaccess files weren’t having any effect. Listing the files on the shared volume on my Mac seemed to show that they were there: ~$ ls -Al /Volumes/Home Directory/www/sites/jackspeak/site/ total 736 -rwxr-xr-x 1 simon …
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Specify the Finder icon with Avahi
Yesterday, I blogged about my various issues setting up Apple Filesharing on the Debian virtual server I’ve got running in Parallels. As of OS X 10.5, Leopard, the Finder has a shared area which shows the machines it’s discovered via Bonjour so you can easily connect to them. Today I got bored of having the …
The fine art of procrastination
From the astoundingly elaborate procrastination, I’d say that “tendering” is not the most fascinating subject Carolyn has had to revise. #