A brief chat with the Wizard in Burnham reveals that this page may have more readers than I bargained for. What incredibly dull lives you must all have waiting for my next reinstallation, dodgy book recommendation or whatever! I may have to start telling lies to make it all more interesting. Anyway, if you are new to this page, you should know it looks better in Netscape or Mozilla than in Internet Explorer (by accident not design), works fine in Lynx, and its updated when I can be arsed to do so. Need to study desperately hard in order to not feel guilty throughout Glasgow trip.
After all the hit and miss work with GNOME libraries, I notice that Linux Emporium is selling Helix GNOME (which includes latest gnumeric, gimp etc.) on CD-R for a fiver! Worrying greatly about Community Care research project
At last CGI Programming with Perl arrives. Actually got some units of my enforced NVQ signed off. A shame my other studies aren't going so well. Considering going against every rule I ever made, and trying for an IT job. Big news is that Sun Microsystems are to release StarOffice 6 under the GPL, using GNOME and Bonobo. Their project site is up at openoffice.org.
Some major updating done on the StreetServer, including adding some functionality to the search page and a basic introductory help/about screen. Nice to be doing something useful with this box again, after several days spent updating GNOME libraries. Still can't get Evolution to build however. The Americans moved to their new home in Bristol today.
I've had a home on the web for more years than I care to remember, and a few kind souls persuade me it's worth persisting with keeping it updated. This current incarnation of the site is centred around the blog posts which began back in 1999 as 'the daylog' and continued through my travels and tribulations during the following years.
I don't get out and about nearly as much these days, but I do try to record significant events and trips for posterity. You may also have arrived here by following the trail to my former music blog Songs Heard On Fast Trains. That content is preserved here too.