On our travels we’ve been keeping a blog with updates and photos. It seems like a better way to let people know what we are doing than the mass email shot approach (which no one really reads and you always offend someone by forgetting to add them to the list). I keep up-to-date on blogs,… Read More »
So I had to F9 my eeepc (press f9 on reboot to restore factory defaults) in an attempt to make wifi work properly. It seems good now but I’m keeping an eye on it. Anyway, I had to reinstall FF3 and found some deb packages to make life far easier. Initial install instructions [eeeuser.com wiki]… Read More »
I’m on extended honeymoon, travelling around the world with my wife and eeepc 900 (in that order). Simon recently posted on his blog about using a Gnome-based editor called Drivel for offline blogging so I’m giving it try. Network connectivity has bee scarse at times out here… (P.S. connecting Drivel to wordpress is explained here)
I’ve been upgrading and installing on my eee pc 901 ready for travelling. Getting FF 3 on this was a fight. Top hints: add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list (although I’ve read that adding debian repos to this xandros install might be dodgy). The first is to get out of that stupid simple UI and have… Read More »
My list of buddies on Pidgin IM was getting out of hand. Too many friends with multiple accounts — Jabber, MSN, AIM… Tim pointed out a couple of space saving tips. First, you can drag a buddy icon and hover over another to nest them as a single entry. I’ve now amalgamated those with Jabber,… Read More »
A couple of days ago I upgraded to Firefox 3.0. I managed to get in as part of the world record # of downloads stunt. It is being reported that they had over 8 million downloads so it is a new record. Turns out no one has ever entered this record before so recording and… Read More »
I’m planning a round the world tour and have been looking into options for geotagging photos and posting our path online. After a bit of research I think a good option is to go with the geotagging feature of Picasa. It is a fairly straightforward process which involves selecting the photos in Picasa, zooming round… Read More »
The Microtransant Challenge is a autonomous robot sailing race across the Atlantic. They’ve had two warm up competitions in which the boats variously didn’t arrive in time or components failed. In the second competition in 2007 the INNOC (Austrian Association for Innovative Computer Science) team managed to sail for 24 hours and were pronounced the… Read More »
For my RTW trip I’m considering buying an EEE PC. The new 900 series is out now so I’m hoping for a drop in price of the older model. Who needs a 9 inch screen anyway?
Retro sabotage have made a whole bunch of reworked old school games with a few amusing twists. Kind of reminiscent of the movie mash.