I have decided that this year that I won’t be a Scrooge for the holiday season, maybe I’m ill, anyway here are some photos of my decorated room, Sheldon’s scarf and hat were made by my great friend Kylie from Not Even a Bag of Sugar, photoshopping by me.
I decided to add rounded corners to the site, I thought all I’d need was a simple WordPress plugin, of course it wasn’t quite that easy, turns out some CSS inserts were needed, after that things snowballed a bit and I ended up updating WordPress and the Atahualpa theme too. The style is a bit Read more about Little site update[…]
As you probably know I am trying to raise money for a new wheelchair, the NHS are still being stubborn so my neighbours have offered to set up a fundraising event, it has got much larger than I expected and they are doing an excellent job. I decided I’d tweet some of my followers from Read more about Cheltenham Fundraising Event[…]
It’s Harrison’s 6th Birthday today, please watch his video at Harrison’s Fund and consider supporting him in his fight with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. I hope he has a long, great life, even without a cure it’s possible to live long and well, but I do hope a cure can be found so his life is easier than Read more about Offtopic – Happy Birthday Harrison[…]
Our data host will be performing essential maintenance on the 13th and 14th of June, between 08:00 UTC and 12:00 UTC, this work involves replacing routers and switches, and will cause a major disruption to the Network. We hope this doesn’t cause any major inconvenience and that the actual downtime is much less, but be prepared Read more about World Wind Central & Madmappers Expected Downtime[…]
We now have Madmappers back up and running too. If you haven’t heard of it, the site is run by our friend and colleague Maurizio and hosts a lot of South African GIS data, check out the MadMap viewer created by another friend Nowak.
I recently made a freedom of information request to NHS Gloucestershire regarding Wheelchair Services, I wanted to try and understand how well they were doing their job, below is the response I received. Information received from NHS Gloucestershire Open Government License From the above it seems only 101 powered wheelchairs were provided in Gloucestershire Read more about Freedom Of Information Request Response[…]
We at the Free Earth Foundation apologise for the recent downtime on WorldWind Central, we had a pretty bad crash and lost our RAID array, our server admin f0urtyfive did some great work in recovering data from a damaged disk. We have lost about one week of forum posts unfortunately but should be back up Read more about WorldWind Central is back![…]