Things and tings

Things and tings

Hefty weekend. Sooz’s sister and her other half came up to stay and it was nice to see them. Its been too long since we have met up and it was nice to hook up after so long. We are not going to leave it that long again. LUGRadio Season 3 Episode 3 was released...
MediaWiki hacking and LRL

MediaWiki hacking and LRL

Today I have been fiddling with MediaWiki. For quite some time I have wanted to learn how to customise it for use as a normal site. It seems that MediaWiki is pretty ideal for those people who just want to put up a simple site in which a number of people can edit the...
Collaboration

Collaboration

Recorded LUGRadio Episode 3 last night and it was fun. Plenty of different things to discuss, an interesting interview, and the usual array of fun and banter. The show is out on Monday. Yesterday Paul and I started poncing around with Asterisk@Home. We have been...
MediaWiki hacking and LRL

Never say never

So, it seems that jonobacon.com survived to live another day, despite my predictions of doom and disaster. Hey, with the risks of drinking too much, smoking too much, bird flu, killer mouth disease, being run over, getting bottled by an all day drinker, being blown up...
New site

New site

Right, I am in the process of moving over to the new site. Naturally, any move to a new codebase is going to have its share of snags, and there may well be some problems with the site over the next day or so. To complicate matters, the switchover of the DNS often...
MediaWiki hacking and LRL

Rooting and tooting

Interesting day today. Had a meeting with a local community project who are looking to implement a community center full of Open Source boxes. After some discussion, they will be running Ubuntu, GIMP, Blender, OpenOffice.org and more. They are also interested in using...