I use a fantastic little Firefox add-on called It's all Text to spawn an Emacs client when editing text boxes. However up until recently I kept having problems with formatting of my posts. Even though HTML doesn't really care about white space most blog software tends to treat them as …

GStreamer is the media framework used by the Gnome Desktop. For the most part it's working is hidden from users as media players setup up the processing pipelines required. However sometimes you just want to play something from the command line and that's where a lot of head scratching can …

My arms are starting to approach some sort of healthy* shade of brown as I've spent the last three days out in the sunshine and fresh air.

Friday I took advantage of my current employment flexibility to join my parents for a walk in Hertfordshire. My parents had been planning …