by Neal | 22 Dec 2013 | Days out, Slider
After living in this area for over 16 years, it is quite incredible that I’ve never been to Temple Newsam, a large estate on the outskirts of Leeds. It is owned and managed by Leeds Council, and they do an excellent job. The house (which we didn’t go in today) is late...
by Neal | 14 Dec 2013 | Slider, Tech
Libreoffice is a fork of the more well-known OpenOffice. OpenOffice was taken over by Oracle, leading to the problem that it might not be truly open source. It was then taken over by the Apache project, but in that time most Linux distributions had moved to the...
by Neal | 14 Dec 2013 | Days out, Slider
We booked to go to the National Railway Museum (http://www.nrm.org.uk) Santa’s Steam Adventure with Thomas. Even at 11 weeks old, we thought it was time to meet Father Christmas. The museum was well adorned with Christmas Decorations and the bottom platform doubled as...
by Neal | 30 Oct 2013 | Days out, Slider
Harewood Autumn 2013, a set on Flickr. A lovely day out at Harewood House, this place is stunning at every time of the year, but none more-so than Autumn. Sneaky little picture of Thomas in his new carry thingy as well!
by Neal | 12 Aug 2013 | Slider, Tech
I’ve used a fair bit of open source software in my time but have increasingly found myself using more and more. It seems the quality of a lot of the software is maturing and more notice is being taken of user experience. Open source software is defined as:...
by Neal | 1 Aug 2013 | Slider, Tech
get_iplayer is a terrific little programme to download BBC TV and radio programmes off the iPlayer service. On Ubuntu, get_iplayer is packaged so go to the Software Centre and install. Note the a dash is used in the package not an underscore! Running get_iplayer is...
