I've been trying a few new things this week. One of them was visiting the new food market in the Arndale in town. It looks like a lot of the farms that turn up to the regular farmers markets have a place in there. There is also a massive fish …

As has been noted previously I suffered a bit of a data loss when my Palm failed and the hotsync had not been doing it's job. I'm now going for multiple redundancy with two open source tools, VfsBackup and RfBackup which will do a backup to an external SD card …

It's good to know that when I make comments about the problems with proprietary codecs to the BBC I'm not alone. Out of 6 comments on the BBC's use of technology to deliver news to it's users 3 mention the problems we have accessing it on free software systems.

I've been fighting the assumption that I'm still ill since last week. The "long tail" of the cough is something I can deal with during the day. However when I lie down in bed I can look forward to a good few hours of hacking coughs. It can be heard …

I?m currently in London contemplating my Friday grand tour. I?ve got the London Eye and the Tate Modern down as the first places to visit. If I still have time I may make it down to South Kensington to visit the Science Museum for a little bit of …