Seeing as blogging has reached the masses I'm going to start writing in a normal blog.
I will no longer write in here most likely.

the new url is currently http://timwise.dyndns.org/ but we'll see how that goes.

Tim

What kind of two bit fucked up piece of shit organisation expects you to *BUY* manuals for a product you have already paid for?!

Holy cow, that'd be canon.
"Selected User Manuals are available to purchase from Robert Scott..."
http://www.canon.co.uk/Support/User_Manuals/index.asp

Last fucking business they get from me.

And their support of linux consists of fingers in ears "la la la it doens't exist".

http://timwise.co.uk/photos/sailing06/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/5154816.stm

http://www.pba.co.uk/keyprojects.asp?ID=29

http://www.reading.gov.uk/Documents/transport_streets/M4J11Map1.pdf

Thanks to our head of sales for this one:

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The Department of Transport has now devised a new scheme in order to identify poor drivers and give good drivers the opportunity to recognise them whilst driving.

For this reason as from the middle of May 2006 those drivers who are
found to be driving badly which includes:

-overtaking in dangerous places;

Ian was here (old news).
Found that page here

New broadband connection up on timwise.dyndns.org (no website yet).
Nice bt engineer, who called 10 mins before showing up. Handy.

I've been looking for a show to listen to for some time that has some decent music in it. Finally I've found one:
The podshow music rewind: http://rewind.podshow.com/
Check it out. This guy plays clips from all the podshows, showcasing the best new music from the podsafe music network.

I came across it thanks to Adam Curry http://curry.com/

I didn't think this kind of thing still existed, let alone on a commercial site:
https://www.mytravelmoney.com/SiteBrowser.htm

So I sent them a rant :)

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To: webmaster@mytravelmoney.com; webmaster@goingplaces.co.uk

BBC News on new highway code:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4789146.stm

Bad cycle lanes:
http://www.warringtoncyclecampaign.co.uk/facility-of-the-month/

Sunglasses mounted mirror:
http://icebike.org/Equipment/cyclingmirrors.htm - skip down to "Take A Look:"

I like the gimp a lot, and have been trying out some tutorials. Then it started crashing whenever I created a new image! argh! So after a bit of searching and a pointer from a bug report I tried replacing the GTK+ installation I had obtained with gaim with a new one from the gimp ins

There have been many articles on the merits of linux based systems from the perspective of windows users. Now the tables are turned in this excellently written article. If you have read previous "linux versus windows" tests you will recognise the style and approach, and how it affects the conclusions reached.

http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/05/18/2033216&tid=149

new cv released:
http://timwise.co.uk/cv.pdf [111Kb .pdf]