Welcome to the new jekyll-based blog
This is a new version of the blog on Digital Ocean. I took the opportunity to move the top level site across at the same time. It uses Jekyll and the Minim...
Recent Posts
Rhys Phillips - Interview with Ginger Baker
Our son, Rhys Phillips, has a jazz show on Radio Cardiff . In June 2013 he interviewed Ginger Baker. It’s a fascinating recording. Enjoy.
Installing a Connects2 USB Interface CTARNUSB003 in a Renault Clio
Having recently bought an 07 plated Renault Clio, I wanted to install an Aux cable to connect our mp3 players (all non-apple).
43 folders for Gmail
In a previous post I explained how I set up a 43 folders type of system using the emacs mail program mh-e and a bunch of UNIX/Linux shell scripts and cronta...
[SOLVED] Blank screen and noisy fan with ATI Radeon HD 5000 series under Natty (Ubuntu 11.04)
Today I upgraded 3 machines to Natty. Two of them have ATI Radeon 5000 series graphics card, and after the upgrade on both, the reboot came up as a totally b...
SOLVED: installing ies4linux under Maverick
Installing ies4linux on Ubuntu Maverick, using this command:
HP Pavilion dm3 wifi card stopped working - SOLVED
Today my HP Pavilion DM3 running Ubuntu 10.10 lost internet connectivity. It soon became clear that the system didn’t even think I had wifi capability as the...
Backup script for ToodleDo
backing up toodledo under linux (note - no longer works)
RSA Animate - Drive
Brilliant and fascinating 10 minute youtube video Not heard of Daniel Pink before but very interesting discourse on motivation.
Problems with switching from googlemail to gmail on HTC Desire
problems with switching googlemail to gmail