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Housekeeping post
Shiny new blog design, ooooh. I’m taking the opportunity to move some stuff around too. The biggest changes: The front page of louisaparry.co.uk is now my blog. The About Me has moved to the About Louisa page. I’ve moved all my Three Beautiful Things (3BT) posts to their own blog as they were rather overwhelming [...]
10 goals for 2010 – progress update
Right, we’re a quarter of the way through the year – am I a quarter of the way through my goals? Nope. 1. To make a meal using only ingredients I’ve grown, raised, caught or killed myself. This feels like it’s moving on a bit now as the sun is shiny and there are potatoes [...]
Ukepedia – our fun! new! project
Back in August, I had earache. Otitis Media to be specific. After I got back from having it checked out by my doctor, I wrote a Twitter about it. John was playing on his ukelele and looking over my shoulder at the time so sang the Twitter as I wrote it. Then I went over [...]
Navigating the fictional but real world
In Liverpool in 1998, I bought a book from a publisher clearance style bookshop called ‘The Breeders Box‘. It’s set, primarily, in New York, around Greenwich Village – where I have never been – and for the first four, five times I read it, I had to imagine what the area looked like, how the [...]
Open Street Map: micro-mapping party
We held our first WYLUG(ish) Open Street Map micro-mapping event on Sunday and it went well. Six of us – me, John, Paul, Tim, Simon and Rob – went out mapping and then we went back to Dave’s afterwards to start turning the traces into maps. It was the first OSM event I’ve organised but [...]
Open Street Mapping
After an inspiring WYLUG talk about OpenStreetMap last Monday, John and I have decided to start mapping. John hacked our TomTom so it draws traces of our routes and we took a first test drive with it last night. We drove around some of Armley’s main roads – most of it was already covered on [...]