The journal

Year: 2007

Clone town Britain

As an aside to my previous post about mapping the world. Here is a slightly different slant:- Home Town or Clone Town? “The Clone Town Britain Survey II is designed to determine whether your town has be- come a Clone Town increasingly indistinguishable from dozens of others around the country; or whether it survives as […]

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Free those maps

Last night I was up in London to listen to Steve Coast’s 36th talk on the Open street Map project he created (slide show is on slideshare). This is the Wikipedia of the map world. Currently 15,000 people around the world are using their GPS systems to upload tracks and create maps. The aim of […]

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The Leopard and Lexmark

I upgraded my 24″ iMac to Leopard (OSX10.5) all went smoothly. Except for my brand new Lexmark X4580 printer/scanner/reader. The printer refuses to print and even worse crashes the programme that is sending the print. Looking up in Google I found the Apple users forums where another user was having similar problems. Emails to Lexmark […]

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New beginnings

After 2 years of procrastination I have finally transferred this site over to WordPress . My first WordPress site was for the Our Social World conference in September 2005, which I think is just about when WP was released to the public. Since then I have set up quite a few WP blogs for friends. […]

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Changeover process

I have now imported all the posts created in the past few years created using blogger . These were ftp’d to my site hosted by domain direct. I couldn’t do it the import direct from my old site, so I republished the 697 posts onto a blogger hosted site and then imported them to this […]

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Republishing

Have now disconnected the ftp publishing of this blog to geoffjones.com/blogger.html and made it publish to geoffsnewnewold.blogspot.com, with the intention that I can import all the last 4 years of entries to my new wordpress blog.

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The end is nigh..

At last I might be getting this site sorted out so that I can update it easier and improve the navigation. I have posted a request on rentacoder to upgrade the site to wordpress so the site will be in php rather than html. This will enable me to have a much bigger website (well […]

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The end is nigh..

At last I might be getting this site sorted out so that I can update it easier and improve the navigation. I have posted a request on rentacoder to upgrade the site to wordpress so the site will be in php rather than html. This will enable me to have a much bigger website (well […]

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