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  A car-free web geek, recording this and that in the digital memex, mapping and cycling 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 that I collect on these walks. Sometimes, it's not the physical world I'm exploring, but the contents of the stacks of a library; things I find there may end up here, too.

  Imagination

  Memory

  Open content

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

  Programming

  I am a computer programmer by trade, working for a small company in South Fremantle. I also contribute to a few little open source projects (Wordpress plugins, etc.). I write about these things here, 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.

  Uncategorised

  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

  January 2012

  Sorry, Apple Inc., I've met something I like more than you

  Wikisource now exports

  Brewster Kahle on the Internet Archive

  How Proust Can Change Your Life, by Alain de Botton (1997)

  George Steiner, a certain idea of knowledge

  Rules for Making

  Piccadilly Jim, by P. G. Wodehouse

  December 2011

  Getting sorted for the new year, in the Mocca Lounge

  Publication dates

  Of course we can do it

  Travels with Charley, by John Steinbeck

  Switching an SVN directory to and from an 'externals' definition

  The Quakers by Pink Dandelion

  Carnival, by Compton MacKenzie

  Waverley by Walter Scott

  Before December 2011…

• Comments

  • 2012-01-24: WordPress TwentyTen theme ported to MediaWiki (Sam Wilson)
  • 2012-01-23: WordPress TwentyTen theme ported to MediaWiki (Kyle Anderson)
  • 2011-09-01: PHP’s Fileinfo extension under PHP 5.2 on Windows (Sam Wilson)
  • 2011-08-31: PHP’s Fileinfo extension under PHP 5.2 on Windows (John)
  • 2011-08-19: Coding; Quakerism; and a Boring Title (Jorge Vasquez)
  • 2011-07-16: Freo Bloggers’ meetup (Pam)
  • 2011-06-01: Interpretive Demolition (Sam Wilson)
  • 2011-05-27: Open Data Kit (Sam Wilson)
  • 2011-05-15: Fine Woodworking on Treenails (Woodcraft)
  • 2011-04-15: Off to Nanga for the weekend! … (Alysia Conway)

• Links

  • Blogs

    • Alex King
    • Ben Buckland
    • Chris Hill's Open Maps
    • Clare Davies
    • Coding Horror
    • Cory Doctorow's Craphound
    • Dave Robertson
    • Dave Winer
    • Emma Jack
    • Francis’ Blog
    • James Bridle
    • James Ward: I Like Boring Things
    • Love Freo
    • Marcus
    • PEAR
    • Roel Loopers
    • Stonewaves
    • The Fremantle Society
    • Tom M. Wilson

  • Businesses

    • Amicko Films
    • Shiatsu In The City

  • Reading

    • John Miedema

  • Tech

    • Free Software Foundation
    • humans.txt
    • Open Library
    • Scribtex
    • The Grauniad's geek stories

  • Uncategorised

    • Chris Hill's Open Maps
    • Geovictwardian
    • Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down
    • Quakerpedia
    • Slow Down Now
    • The Chap
    • The Idler
    • The Letter Exchange
    • The Woodworking Wikibook
    • Urbex Forum

  • Wikis

    • FreoWiki

• Index

  In descending order of frequency of use.

  Uncategorised technology Canberra Work Transport Fremantle Woodworking Place Addressbook plugin books A Place of One's Own Coming events Bicycle archiving Investigation Gardening dichotomy world wide web Blogging Making University People Speed Placeblogging social networking wordpress Reading photography woodwork technology Things how I write Exploring Wikimedia Chickens Politics IBM tuggeranong Writing NaBloPoMo websites Fremantle Society non-fiction Seminars/Lectures/etc. Railway Posts written when drunk Tools Arts and Crafts (movement) Facebook cars boredom keyboard vs. pen Image Flicker plugin Programming email ANU art school quotations internet planing community WebDB family treenails AuDA ACT Greens address book Bookkeeping plugin plugins coding Australian Computer Society History Writing in public view box manifesto boring posts workshop wikisource documentation recording Wikis Free Culture Quakerism trees PHP Kohana The Co-operative Food Shop travelling MediaWiki freedom Ubuntu laptops Lenovo Linux FreoWiki digitising GLAM web future Freospace fiction 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 development slideshows images cartography hcard microformats gravatars 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 urbex exploration escape Soetsu Yanagi The Unknown Craftsman boxes Truth to Materials wheelbarrow urban resistance time sawing 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 wood dovevtails woodwork technique assessment future plans prototyping bookplate Joseph Whitworth flattening pidgeonholes materials reuse shipping focus Satish Kumar legs Resurgence Magazine Walking With Water 2XXFM radio podcasts InDesign White Gum Valley moving storage MacKennal Street software samwilson.id.au website Brindabellas Windows Fileinfo workbench saw horses saw stools personal email archiver newspapers 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. bibliography LibraryThing SQL MySQL code genealogy Drupal Cantonment Hill Wikipedia Openstreetmap mapping HTML PDF JPG Literate Programming javadoc Donald Knuth cycling databases GIS MGA UTM bc_base_convert Morton codes Z-order (curve) Food Co-op Zend columns sorting 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 heritage Richard Stallman RMS Free Software Foundation GNU David Clarke themes skinning design TwentyTen porting Pecl Fremantle City Council journalism e-volunteering date ranges Semantic MediaWiki calendar temporal reasoning Kieran Benton Stack Overflow code snippets The Guardian Cory Doctorow ThinkPad RSS feeds news Twitter djvu Ben Kafka paperwork Information Technology ICT bricklaying Gosch Street houses GLAMcamp punctuation logic Slate Ben Yagoda Chicago Manual of Style Open Data Kit ODK OpenRosa Java 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 meetings cafés Carrington Street suburbia Hamilton Hill landscape nature kitchens renovating alcohol joy rants sheds Walter Scott Waverley Pink Dandelion Oxford University Press Subversion externals Project Management revision control Travels with Charley America dogs open standards Dave Winer Occupy Android decentralisation Code Complete Steve McConnell Brian Kernighan P. J. Plauger Compton MacKenzie Scotland hiking Carnival nomenclature filesystems organisation files Mocca Lounge digitisation P. G. Wodehouse Piccadilly Jim Alain de Botton How Proust Can Change Your Life George Steiner culture silence roots articles Boring Kevin Kelly The European epub exporting typography Internet Archive Brewster Kahle libraries cloud storage Mac OS Apple fandom Douglas Adams Open Source activism gratis libre free as in speech X220