Archive for Tag ‘Travel‘

Fragile connection – hold tight

Me in a phone booth in Chipping-Camden, the CotswaldsIf you’ve tried to visit this blog in the last few weeks, sorry.

My hosting provider underwent a series of upgrades somewhere back around May 26th, and ever since then you’ve had about a 50/50 chance of getting either no response at all or a “database connection error” page. Things seem (knocking wood) relatively stable now, so I’m hoping all the demons have been exorcised and the host will find solid ground – if not, I’m going to have to shop for a new host (again).

This coincided (luckily or unluckily, depending on your point of view) with two weeks vacation in England (London, the Costwolds) and Ireland (Dublin, counties Kerry and Cork), so for the first half of the “troubles” I was blissfully unaware. (That’s right, I spent 12 days with no internet access – didn’t even bring my laptop, and turned off the data connection on my phone.)

I’ll be blogging some more about the trip itself (and vegan eats we had along the way) over on Goatless, but I’ve also got a backlog of stuff to talk about here – so stay tuned, and sorry for the interruption(s).

Kflickr – Flickr uploader for Kubuntu

Tired of having to use the web form based flickr upload process, and uploading six photos at a time?

or, tired of rebooting into windows just to upload photos?

I just discovered kflickr – it’s in the Ubuntu repository for Edgy. (Looks like it is in Dapper and Feisty as well)

(At a terminal, sudo apt-get install kflickr, or use aptitude and look for it by name)

Very nice. Take a look later today or tomorrow for some Zurich photos from today and yesterday.

Thanks for the notice

Thursday I got this helpful message from Cingular:

Cingular Message


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So many conferences, so little time . . .

This weekend in Austin, TX will be SXSW, Dorkbot, and BarCamp Austin.

Austin Map

What’s a geek to do with so many options and so little time?


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Google Maps for Windows Mobile Smartphone

Google’s maps application is now available for Windows Mobile Smartphone edition based phones, like my Cingular Blackjack (Samsung i607):

Google Maps Windows Mobile Smartphone Edition


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