The blog of Steve Root

  • 5 and a bit years of blogging… just

    So I may have been quieter than usual over the summer, but the blog still goes on. What visitors are reading though has changed since last year when this post gave the top 4 posts. Now they are:

    1. Useful Windows Shortcut key to show Desktop is still number – This was written for XP but the shortcut works in Vista too.
    2. Margins and Markups – what the difference is and how to calculate them.
    3. Red mushroom with white spots – a photo I took while walking
    4. BBC iPlayer and it’s built in Kontiki software – though I must make a new entry about this, as the iPlayer has moved on since 2 years ago. We’re now watching iplayer via our Ninendo Wii! Nicola used it to watch Gavin and Stacey for the first time to see the kitchen I designed (it’s the maple one, in the house set in Essex).
    5. Welcome to the Christmas Party season – a review of our 2007 works christmas party.

  • Happy new year!

    Happy new year everyone!

    It may be apparent I’ve not been typing a lot lately. Well, I have, just not in the blog. Having caught up with work and other real life fun things I’m hoping to post several entries that are overdue. Before I do that, some suitable geek humour that had me in fits of laughter (good job I’m the only one in the office).

    Sandwich
    from: http://xkcd.com/149/

    (funnier for me perhaps, ’cause sudo refers to the ‘root’ user…. hey, it’s geek humour, it’ll mean nothing to 99% of the population so you’ll not be perfectly normal not to understand it)

  • Brother Dave goes on a cycling holiday, we track his position live by GPS

    280-live-gps-track-via-internet-thumb-300x185-279.jpg Brother Dave decided to go on a cycling holiday, from Oslo in Norway to Copenhagen in Sweden. His Nokia phone has built in GPS and with a little software from http://www.mapmytracks.com/ and a not inexpensive data contract with O2 (mostly needed so we can pester him with work email while he travels) we’re able to watch where he cycles in real time. You too can see him cycle slowly up hills on a scrolling map the wizz down the other side.

    To find out where he is now, or where his last section finished, follow this link: http://www.mapmytracks.com/explore/author/davidjroot/latest , or visit his blog for anything else he uploads (he’s going to try and geotag his photos…..).

    Special thanks to the developers of mapmytracks.com, it wasn’t possible to link directly to the latest route yesterday so I sent an email asking for it to be added to the wish list. Less than 12 hours later and they’ve added it already!

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