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Geeky socialising
WYLUG, the West Yorkshire Linux User Group, has had long standing monthly meetings – the second Monday of every month, usually a talk or two at the University of Leeds, then down to the Victoria pub afterwards for geeky chattery – but last month, we decided to try arranging social meet-ups on the other fortnight. [...]
KXStitch
A few months ago, I started learning how to cross-stitch but was hindered slightly by the lack of non-chintzy kits out there. I started on the simple and cute designs from Mouseloft but once I wanted a bit more complexity, I was somewhat out of luck. I found a few cartoony cat ones but don’t [...]
Quick tip for checking through your email spam folder
I thought this was quite a given way to do it but John seemed surprised by it when he saw me doing it once so I’ll document it here in case he’s not the only one who hasn’t thought of it yet: When checking through your spam folder for false positives, sort by the Subject [...]
Southport is on the map
The Google map to be precise. On the default screen when you go to maps.google.co.uk – the level of scaling to show pretty much all the UK in one screen, Southport is listed alongside Liverpool and Preston – but numerous cities around the country, like Sheffield, York and Bradford, are missing. One zoom point further [...]
LUGRadio Live 2007
Just back from LUGRadio Live 2007 – the annual weekend of geekery in Wolverhampton. As well as being in a different location to last year, it had a completely different atmosphere for me – last year was too hot to circulate much but this year, I chatted to lots and lots of interesting people. Good [...]
Lurking
I have started lurking on the ubuntu-uk, ubuntu-women, and linuxchix mailing lists and the IRC channels of the latter two too. I would like to get more involved in the whole FOSS community fandango but I don’t know where to start or what sort of things I want to do so I thought I’d start [...]