Desktop Data Manager is superb tool; providing a clipboard manager, a screenshot taking app that allows you to select regions and a reasonable download manager. I mainly use the screenshot tool at the moment. From their page: Clipboard Manager Clipboard »
Near where I currently live in Otley is very well mapped by OSM, here is a screenshot. Compare this to google maps (Only when I did this comparison did I notice how much screen space is wasted on the left of the google maps). My first experience »
I have decided to get involved in OpenStreetMap. When asked a little while ago by someone at WYLUG I poo-pooed it, thinking that it was too big a task and seeing the little progress they had made. I am glad to say I was wrong, it is taking shape nicely »
As anyone who knows me even moderately well will know, I am an atheist. No, not an atheist. You should not describe yourself in terms of what you don’t believe. I do not believe in Father Christmas so I suppose you could call me an asantaist. I am probably »
I am just getting a talk ready for WYLUG on python. I sent Dave the following blurb: Why I love Python: A talk on the programming language Python, in 3 parts (feel free to leave in the interludes if you have had enough) Part 1: Past, Present, Future »
No blog post for a week, perhaps I am not as self important or tenacious as I think I am. I have been meaning to read Muhammad Younus’s book “Banker to the Poor” for a while, I had not heard of him till he won the Nobel Peace Prize. He helped found the »