My Presentation at State of the Map 2008

I’m currently at SOTM2008 in Limerick, Ireland. Just done my Lightening Presentation about the London Mapping Marathon. I have uploaded my lightening talk presentation to SlideShare.com. I have been twittering the events of the conference as they happen. I completely forgot to mention that CloudMade are providing no-names map tiles for the whole world. London… Continue reading My Presentation at State of the Map 2008

Mashed08

Last weekend I was at Mashed08. I stayed there overnight, so didn’t get much sleep. Didn’t do any mashing up, though I did finally start writing a bit of ruby code to take a file with a list of street names, and ask the OSMXAPI whether that street exists within a specified bounding box. It… Continue reading Mashed08

Screw in Tire

P1010856.JPGOriginally uploaded by smsm1 Cycling to work, and get a screw in my tire. Just as well it wasn’t my front tire otherwise I’d have had to walk the rest of the way, or find a bike shop. Instead I just unscrewed it (and took the screw with me so that the next cyclist doesn’t… Continue reading Screw in Tire

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GoOOCon2008

From the 10th to 13th April I was in Prague, Czech Republic for GoOOCon, an OpenOffice.org conference hosted by Novell. I done a presentation about the Buildbot system in OpenOffice.org. I didn’t have time to prepare new slides, due to my move to London, so I just recycled my slides from ooocon2007. It was nice… Continue reading GoOOCon2008

Device Removal

I don’t touch anything, and my slow first generation MacBook will randomly come up with the above message. Maybe an uptime of 13 days is the cause?  It is about time I rebooted into Kubuntu to get some updated maps on to my phone for TMJ. There has some considerable improvements in the maps in… Continue reading Device Removal

OOO: Possible fix for the command timed out error on Leopard

UPDATE:Thanks to Eric Bachard, a fix very similar to this will be appearing in OpenOffice.org 2.4.2 due to be released at the end of October 2008. — With a change in the way that X11 works on Leopard, the X11 version of OpenOffice.org has been giving an error message on startup saying “command timed out”.… Continue reading OOO: Possible fix for the command timed out error on Leopard