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Project 365

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:11:10 +0000

I’ve decided that this year i want to become a better photographer, so i’ve decided to take part in project 365. The aim to take one photo a day for the next year, here are my first two. Hopefully i’ll get better over the year….Please feel free to comment

Not bad for a first attempt

Ubuntu CC

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:05:50 +0000

just saw the announement for the new Ubuntu Community Council members, congratulations to all, especially the UK’s Alan Pope.. Congrats

Announcement from Mark Shuttleworth – here

Twitter / Linux

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:22:13 +0000

If you know me then you’ll know i’m a fan of twitter, but i’m not a great fan of the current linux clients gwibber. I am however a great fan of tweetdeck, but alas it’s a real pain to get working as you have to install Adobe Air first…yuck.

So what’s the alternative…..well let me mention the one i’m currently using, it’s web based so there is nothing to install. What am i using? http://hootsuite.com.

Put it simply is like tweetdeck but web based, ok so there are things that are missing from it such as the facebook integration, but that’s ok.

Have more that one social networking site? yeah i do, twitter, facebook, identi.ca etc etc. The good thing about this application is that it supports http://ping.fm and therefore updates all of them when you create a tweet….great news…

So far i like it, i hope you will to

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Technology / Geekness in Nottingham

admin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:43:15 +0000

Original Article

Nottingham’s Girl Geek Dinners supporting women in technology

Nottingham is getting its own Girl Geek Dinners, which bring together women who work in technical — and traditionally male — environments. Girl Geek Dinners were founded in 2005 in London, by Sarah Blow. Now a global phenomenon, there are over 53 groups internationally including Japan, Iceland and Malaysia.

Now ‘Nottingham Girl Geek Dinners’ will provide support to women in the area’s strong technology, science and engineering sectors and female entrepreneurs across the region.

What: Want to know a bit more about what a Girl Geek Dinner is?

When: Monday 3rd August @ 7pm

Where: Fat Cats Restaurant

Cost: £10 (this is the cost for food)

Why: Our speaker for this evening is Kate Bolin who is a Nottingham based web designer, likes web standards and accessibility but is happiest when up to her elbows in CSS. She is also a prolific knitter. You can find out more about Kate on her entertaining blog: http://www.katemonkey.co.uk/.

Every year the website that is a regular stomping groud for all proffesional web designers; A List Apart, runs a web survey to look at the current industry around the globe. Kate will be looking at the results from the most recent A List Apart Web Workers survey, to examine what it tells us about being a woman working in web design. Leave your preconceptions at the door as we have look at the industries and sectors that offer support for women in IT. Then expect a lively conversation afterwards.

Elsa Bartley, organiser of Nottingham’s Girl Geek Dinners has worked for nearly 10 years in the technology sector.

I’ve really enjoyed my professional career and I’d like to encourage more women into technology; I think we can bring a different perspective. I’m really looking forward to meeting other proffessional women and sharing experiences and expertise.

If you would like to know about future events or are interested in talking at Nottingham Girl Geek Dinners then you can find more information online at http://www.nottinghamgirlgeekdinners.co.uk.

Women in Linux

To much information…..

admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:48:47 +0000

I’ve just surprised myself with the amount of email addresses i currently have, i think i need to consolidate them and have one, currently i have

hotmail
gmail
yahoo
own hosted email about 4 here

Do i really need this many email addresses I think it’s time to close accounts

It’s a shame apps i use are linked to these, flickr for instance is linked to my yahoo account….picasa is linked to my gmail, is it time to go totally self hosted?

I’ve probably mentioned this sometime in the past so apologies if i’m repeating myself..

Linux Events

admin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:55:23 +0000

I’ve decided that next year I’m going to attend at least one major linux show, after seeing numerous reports from SELF, LinuxTag, various FUDcons, it’s about time i went to one. Now i’m in the UK so where to go? Europe? the US? who knows, i’ve still got plenty of time to think about it

Linux Fests

admin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:25:18 +0000

I don’t know about you, but I can’t get to many Linux Fests, especially ones in the US. I’m in the UK so it’s a bit far to travel. But like many people I would love to see what’s going on, perhaps if you’re at an event and have a spare 10 mins with your laptop and a webcam and you have access to a wired lan port, or wireless, you could stream it using ustream, or livestream? then blog it, twitter it etc

I know I would watch just to see what’s going on, yeah i’m sad

I thought of this while watching a SELF stream by ubuntupodcasts Nick Ali

It was quite interesting seeing the amount of people that were around and the stalls, hmmm i’m trying to get to Lug Radio Live this year, I might do it myself there…..

Community

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:38:36 +0000

Don’t you just love it Yesterday I wasn’t having a good day, long story short it was crap Then out of the blue, there are comments on my blog from people telling me to keep my chin up, now some of these I know by reputation only, or from the planets I read. However a few I’ve never heard off, which matters to me not one little bit. It makes me feel good that there are people out there willing to take a few minutes of their time just to make other people feel a little better. And to these folks, I take off my hat! and salute you. FOSS/Community++

TIP#: If you see a post where someone isn’t feeling too hot, go give them a virtual hug, i know I will.

Computers – Funk

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:03:56 +0000

Yes that’s right i said funk. I’m basically at a point where computers are really boring me, i can’t believe i said that, but it’s true. I do use them for a bit of photo editing, email, surfin and have a vps that i run websites on, but yeah whoop de doo! With the latest releases of Ubuntu and Fedora, I should be excited as they are both awesome releases, but lets face it i’m not

What next? Who knows. I think I need motorvation.

** UPDATE *** yes i’m just having a very bad day

Linux + xbox360

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:31:00 +0000

I’ve been playing with media streaming, i did have my wife’s laptop doing it as it’s vista and the xbox360 loves vista for streaming movies and divx etc. However i didn’t like it, i didn’t want to keep the laptop on all the time and couldn’t afford to purchase a media center pc. Luckily i had a spare machine now i’ve moved my websites to a linode. And as it’s running linux, which will keep me happy

Enter ushare.

Basically installed it, copied some media files to /tmp and ran ushare -x this makes it use a xbox 360 compatible profile, i think i tweaked the config file a bit as well but not much.

Et Viola…i can see the server on the xbox and play divx/xvid tron, the last starfighter here we come