Mumblings of a Space focused Software Engineer
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Everything here is ancient and probably not relevant for anything, but I didn't see any reason to remove it :)
2013
Cinnamon applets
So after trying Gnome 3 for quite some time, I've moved on to Cinnamon nowdays.
Facebook Event exports take two
So a while ago I wrote a php script to make facebook event names appear properly on google calendar. I've since noticed that all 'full day'…
Goa
My reading on Goa suprised me a little when I realized that Goa is not actually a city, and not in the strict sense of the word a state…
Pune
So, I was writing blog posts, but when internet was available didn't really have time to post them. I'll get them up slowly!
More Mumbai
So I've been stuck with very limited internet the past few days due to extremely expensive internet. For some reason it seems that the more…
2012
Arrival in Mumbai
More travel adventures, so more blog post time!
2011
NVIDIA multiple monitors on linux
The NVIDIA drivers on linux come with a nice utility: nvidia-settings Unfortunately when setting up multiple monitors it has no easy way of…
Exporting facebook events to google calendar
Update:This script has been updated to update dates on full day events as well.
Video out of sync with audio in games
This problem has been frustrating me for ages. Almost every single game I played, the video appeared to run faster than the audio to match…
Publishing shared google reader items to twitter continued!
So I've added another step to my grand plan of sharing links via google reader, and I think I've finally got twitter to work! It actually…
Publishing shared google reader items to twitter.
Seems Feedburner by google which I've been using up until now is unreliable with posting to twitter, so this is a half post on what I've…
Replacing notepad on Vista
Having fun today trying to replace notepad on vista with my favourite text editor of late - Notepad++
2010
File recovery
So someone left us with a corrupt USB stick at work a couple of days ago, no joy with that, but she had a USB stick which was still working…
Wooden letters in the mailbox?
So I opened our mailbox to find black painted wooden letters taking up the whole thing - An 'M', a 'N' and two 'I's. Viral marketing or…
A park bench adventure among other things
Salzburg was cute. Went on a biking tour around the 'Sound of Music' movie locations. This was after wandering for 2 hours in the rain to…
A quick update
Been too busy to write full entries so a quick run down on the last couple of weeks. After Switzerland I spent two nights with Robert - the…
Switzerland
With my tickets all reserved already the trip to Interlaken in Switzerland was relatively straight forward, if very long. Barcelona ->…
Barcelona
Each new city makes me realise how unfriendly Paris is for tourists. Barcelona, follow signs to metro, bang there's a map you can grab, buy…
Lagos to Barcelona
So after some breakfast I caught the train back to Lisbon. Strangely this time I had to pay a reservation, even though on the way down the…
Lagos
It turned out that Will, and a friend off his, Andrew, both from Christchurch, were also heading down there. They were cutting it fine with…
Lisbon
Can I have too many highlights in one trip? Regardless, Lisbon has to be added to the list. While sure the seat on the train there was…
Madrid
Madrid was significantly easier than Paris. Arrived in Chamartin, and BAM there's a metro map to pick up. Too easy. Headed in to the…
Paris!
The next morning I got up at what I thought was 7.30 to catch the train to Paris. Unfortunately I'd forgotten to change the time on my…
Arriving in France
Arriving in St. Malo and a good 45 minute walk to the train station, to attempt to get tickets to Paris. Ended up having to go for a train…
Jersey
The ferry... was a ferry. Pretty much what I expected. The food was somewhat better than the ferry terminals at least. Rocked up at Jersey…
Portsmouth
2010-06-22 Portsmouth
Edinburgh
Overnight buses are not so fun when the seats don't recline. I could probably have done with a travel pillow of sorts too, oh well. We also…
My great great great great grandfather's tombstone!
Just found the tombstone of my great great great great grandfather in Green St Cemetary, in St Helier, Jersey! 17361737 I'll have a post…
More London
London was action packed. As you've probably already seen, I went to the Tower of London on Wednesday. Been told by multiple people it's…
Trebuchet @ Tower of London
Free walking Tours!
The first full day in London! Had some breakfast at the hostel, standard cereal and stuff, and had another walk on over to Regent St, where…
Phoenix Hostel
Is decent enough. 10 beds in a room the size of my bedroom back home (to be fair my bedroom back home is quite large) is a little cramped,…
And onwards to London
Up at 6, packing, breakfast, and a pre-booked taxi with Madeline and Carson to the airport. When we got close our driver tried to convince…
Back to Cairo
Awesome. 8 hours driving back to Cairo. One or two breaks along the way... nothing of interest to report :P Once we were back we went out…
The Blue Hole
We're told Dahab is famous for the 'Blue Hole' - a shaft running down through the reefs near Dahab, literally only 10 meters offshore.…
Dahab
Up at 8.30 and had a dip in previously mentioned massive pool. Was a bit annoying though as turns out half of it is only 25-50cm deep,…
Mt. Sinai & St. Catherine
A normal sleep and a normal(ish) wake up time of 6.30! Off downstairs to farewell Jess, Sean, Andrew and Rachel as they catch a taxi off to…
Cairo Again
I don't think I was ever asleep for more than 10 minutes at a time... the aircon was either full bore,meaning pants jumpers and sleeping…
Luxor & Valley of the Kings
So I was woken up at 4.30 am as Tom gets ready to go on his balloon ride which I decided against due to funding. Although it was only 150…
Luxor
Had a nice morning chatting and farewelling the three people from the felucca gecko tour who had decided that feluccas weren't for them.…
Cruising down the Nile
The first day of actual cruising we apparently left Aswan around 5am. I was asleep and it was quiet enough I didn't even notice until I…
Abu Simbel
So up at 3.15am we got, hopped on a minibus to join up with a convoy leaving Aswan at 4am. Back in 1997 there used to be issues with…
Felucca Dinner
We headed on down to jump on a felucca for dinner Thursday night. A felucca is a type of sailboat used by the Nubian people, who are a…
Cairo to Aswan
Dinner was average. Nice but nothing particularly interesting or spectacular - at least it's included in the cost of the tour this one.…
Cairo - Pyramids!
Just made it to a net cafe, so two updates today, previous one just posted. Up at 7 am today for some breakfast then off to the Giza…
Cairo - arrival
Flying into Cairo was quite bizzare. Flying over the desert was quite amazing, endless expanse of yellow in all directions was quite…
Doha!
Apparently I'm too used to budget flying. Either that or Qatar is quite exceptional. Hot towels, sweets, free beer, nearly 200 movies to…
More plans
My grandparents where kind enough to email me some information about the Chisholm family history. Apparently my Great x4 Grandfather Andrew…
New Camera means photos!
Just got a new Canon PowerShot A3000 IS which I've been fiddling with this evening and have linked in my picasa album to wordpress here.
Plans
As I think I've posted on facebook a few times, a bit of a vague outline of my plans is up on eurotrip.com - they have a trip planner I…
Travel Blog
Figured I'd put somewhere up to post my comings and goings through Europe. I could have used facebook, but I figured, I have my own domain…
