Cutting down on your carbon is easier when everyone’s doing it January 14th, 2008

Carbon rationing action groups (CRAGs) are groups of people who agree to measure their carbon (dioxide) use. They also agree on an upper limit for the year, and a per-tonne levy for anyone exceeding it. As the twelve months pass them by, they meet, chat, swap tips and advice, and generally try to meet the [...]

A complex CCK module in Drupal September 20th, 2007

CCK is Drupal’s way of making rich content. It means that nodes of any content type can have any kind of data attached to them, so you can have e.g. a directory of superstore outlets, where the outlet records have their longitude and latitude (editable by a Google Map widget) whereas the contact records (e.g. [...]

Closer to the wireless September 28th, 2006

After a bit of a struggle I’ve managed to get wireless networking at home. Unfortunately, my first attempts to test the connectivity to the rest of the world coincided with the power outages at Telehouse, a “bullet-proof” ISP that too many people rely on, including ADSL services, the BBC website, Nominet, some DNS servers….
I have [...]