Sam Wilson's Journal

This is the complete archive for June 2008. [Show full posts]

I have been playing around with a different form for this website for the last couple of weeks. Because I don’t particularly care if people don’t have access to it all the time, I made the changes to the live site, and so it’s looked pretty bad lately. Lots of changes behind the scenes, though, [...]

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A car-free web database geek, recording this and that in the digital memex, mapping and walking in Fremantle, striving for a bit of simplicity, and now and then building bits of wooden furniture by hand.
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Exploring
I like to go for rambling, aimless walks, though bush or suburbs, and sometimes I post here the words and pictures (and GPS traces) that I collect on these walks.

Miscellaneous
Everything else.

Open content
I edit on various Wikimedia projects and other wikis, and occasionally post here about whatever I'm working on. I am usually [[User:Samwilson]] on all projects.

Programming
I am a computer programmer by trade, working for a small company in South Fremantle. I contribute to a few little open source projects (plugins for WordPress, Dokuwiki, a few scripts for interacting with wikis around the place, etc.). I write about these things here when I can, working things out, announcing updates, musing on how things ought to be done...

Reading
'Reading' in the broad sense, but usually to do with texts that are made of text.

Status updates
Tweets, dents, Facebook statuses... from wherever they come, this category is the final and complete archive of them all.

woodworking
This blog began as a way for me to document my workshop practice when I was at the ANU school of art in Canberra. Now my life has moved away from working at the bench, but I still post about the small projects that I do get to work on, and the joy that I find in working wood by hand.
Recent Posts
May 2013
WebDB 2013-05-07
April 2013
Backing up thunderbird email
Better sync'ing for Printable WeRelate
Perth Linux Users' Group
History of West Australia by W. B. Kimberly
CoF feed broken
Printable WeRelate
GluePHP
March 2013
Where the bus stop went
My new Kobo Mini
Facebook is NOT the web
Footpath floods
Clare Davies (new exhibition)
Jeffersonian Yeoman bloggers
February 2013
Quiet Libraries

Before February 2013…
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- 2013-05-20: Quiet Libraries (peperoni ripieni)
- 2013-05-20: Getting a proper %DATE% variable in batch files (Italy's high priestess of what to wear after skiing at Gstaad or when you're giving a dinner party and somebody else is doing the cooking is Princess Irene Galitzine. Among the major innovations at her showing in Florence were her flared tunic tops of pas)
- 2013-05-19: Facebook vs. WordPress (best endowment policies)
- 2013-05-19: Freopedia advertising (rubber band ligation)
- 2013-05-19: Rails Through the Bush (moodle.mintra.com)
- 2013-05-19: Deleting files with special characters in their names, in Windows (electric car conversion)
- 2013-05-19: PHP’s Fileinfo extension under PHP 5.2 on Windows (Odessa)
- 2013-05-19: My new Kobo Mini (http://musclecorexreview.net)
- 2013-05-18: Freopedia advertising (coconut)
- 2013-05-17: My new Kobo Mini (Green coffee reviews)
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Miscellaneous Fremantle Canberra Work technology books transport woodworking archiving place Addressbook plugin Reading Coming events Bicycle A Place of One's Own Investigation Blogging gardening world wide web dichotomy Wikimedia social networking wordpress technology Making University People Speed Placeblogging Linux photography woodwork wikis PHP WebDB Things how I write Programming Exploring Writing storage Wikipedia websites Fremantle Society Hamilton Hill libraries backups Chickens politics Facebook email ANU IBM tuggeranong art school internet Wikisource community NaBloPoMo genealogy databases Kohana Ubuntu web cafés non-fiction files lectures family Railway Posts written when drunk Tools Arts and Crafts (movement) cars boredom keyboard vs. pen Image Flicker plugin History exploration quotations planing Windows trees cycling MediaWiki laptops Subversion data WeRelate Printable WeRelate treenails AuDA ACT Greens address book Bookkeeping plugin plugins coding development Australian Computer Society Writing in public view urbex Soetsu Yanagi The Unknown Craftsman sawing box wood manifesto boring posts 2XXFM radio podcasts software workshop newspapers documentation recording Free Culture Quakerism SQL MySQL code Openstreetmap mapping The Co-operative Food Shop sorting travelling heritage freedom Fremantle City Council Lenovo feeds news Java future Freospace meetings nature open standards Dave Winer fiction filesystems articles cloud storage Spearwood ebooks quiet coffee bugs QR codes QRpedia Fremantle Gazette cmd DOS trains Clontarf Road Beaconsfield Fine Woodworking magazine dovetails Photographs door jamb A chair in which to sit PVA glue technique young greens greens ABC plugin climate change marvin paranoid android 11th hour hipocracy craft air travel sewing blog action day squirrelmail webmail variable sent folder trunnels food co-op co-operative wordpress plugins slideshows images cartography hcard microformats gravatars suburbex ACS Telework Peak oil Food shortages Working from home Telecottage fanfic Theo Aronson fantasy Marrion Zimmer Bradley Darkover Victoria and Disraeli Alternate world Urban Exploration leaving the office scenery Nikon D60 Leaving Canberra Blathering escape boxes Truth to Materials wheelbarrow urban resistance time attention to process communication correspondence speed of response slowing down visual diary glueless William Morris decoration dispair not good enough stock preparation sharpening posture inlaying emotion physicality closeness dovevtails woodwork technique assessment future plans prototyping bookplate Joseph Whitworth flattening pidgeonholes materials reuse shipping focus Satish Kumar legs Resurgence Magazine Walking With Water InDesign White Gum Valley moving MacKennal Street samwilson.id.au website Brindabellas Fileinfo workbench saw horses saw stools personal email archiver local history volunteering indexing cataloguing modernity Why I write Tim Brook-Taylor I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Public diary Lawrence Lessig Tropicana Duplication of content honesty God Tom M. Wilson childhood semantic web Wordsworth luddism In support of I.T. South Beach bibliography LibraryThing Gaston Bachelard Drupal Cantonment Hill HTML PDF JPG Literate Programming javadoc Donald Knuth GIS MGA UTM bc_base_convert Morton codes Z-order (curve) Food Co-op Zend columns sessions URI redirecting Casio F-91W watches timekeeping I.T. PDFs concatenation image manipulation Federal Election 2007 voting STV Commons O'Connor Community Garden Edmund Street collaboration causes Richard Stallman RMS Free Software Foundation GNU David Clarke themes skinning design TwentyTen porting Pecl journalism e-volunteering date ranges Semantic MediaWiki calendar temporal reasoning Kieran Benton Stack Overflow code snippets The Guardian Cory Doctorow ThinkPad RSS Twitter FreoWiki Ben Kafka paperwork Information Technology ICT bricklaying houses GLAM punctuation logic Slate Ben Yagoda Chicago Manual of Style Open Data Kit ODK OpenRosa data collection Roundhouse Captains Lane West End Heritage interpretation Internet Society ISOC jQuery validation selecting Fremantle Council precincts Hilton revolution Figo's tabular forms X-Wray FICRA identity gmail Marco Arment Neal Stephenson imagination doubt optimism Carrington Street suburbia landscape kitchens renovating alcohol joy rants sheds Walter Scott Waverley Pink Dandelion Oxford University Press externals Project Management revision control Travels with Charley America dogs Occupy Android decentralisation Code Complete Steve McConnell Brian Kernighan P. J. Plauger Compton MacKenzie Scotland hiking Carnival nomenclature organisation Mocca Lounge digitisation P. G. Wodehouse Piccadilly Jim Alain de Botton How Proust Can Change Your Life George Steiner culture silence roots Western Australia Boring Kevin Kelly The European epub exporting typography Internet Archive Brewster Kahle Mac OS Apple fandom Douglas Adams Open Source activism gratis libre free as in speech X220 Richard Flanagan And what do you do Mr Gable? Cockburn ripping sawdust hand tools cutlery drawer ninthfloor.org hosting beards git Github version control werelate.org GraphViz graphics Victoria Quay Lyneham permanence Manton Reece rsync.net offsite svn wget Firefox cookies static web pages passwords Hamilton Road GPS JOSM redaction walking Manning Park Watsonia barbecues Unesco ISAD(G) General International Standard Archival Description J K Huysmans binding Wikimedia Australia societies foreign keys Wiki Wednesday Roel Loopers bookbinding bookpresses ANU School of Art date formatting dates batch files variables George Eliot Silas Marner filenames renaming deleting debugging MIME types Theo Coulthard Behind the Lines audio Rails Through the Bush sources calendars rotation scheduling mtools FAT system administration Coledale words Phoebe Ayers printing Freopedia editing MultiViews Apache servers index.php forums feedback maximums social media intellectual property walled-gardens Clare Davies exhibitions art reticulation water gardens John Naughton Tim Berners-Lee Kobo Kobo Mini ereaders reviews syncin bus stops GluePHP routing URLs extensions City of Fremantle Planet Freo Freo W. B. Kimberly Abrolhos Islands PLUG Perth Linux Users Group syncronization Thunderbird scripts mail mbox

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Catching up… — June 5th, 2008, 8AM

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