🎬 Real, powerful www.netflix.com/title/816…

🌱 gardening today and not sure if things have stopped growing, are still growing or have already started again. I know a couple of bushes have never stopped flowering!

Namib Moth (acrylic on canvas)

Now that was interesting. Image displayed in the mb web Posts list OK, but on the website it showed as code. Swapped from html to markdown cured it. Using an underscore in the image name caused the link to break and render the second half of that link in italics: …/desert_elephant.jpeg

Really love Natural England’s file naming…

Personally sad to see all the snow has gone, but good news for the resident Barn Owl. Hunting through thick frozen snow can’t be easy.

A pretty chilly start on Saturday, but not that cold. I’ll have to have words with my car about exaggerating again 🤨

Well @jimmitchell I’ve forked your mnml and imaginatively called it gnml 😜 It’s up on Github but the old way of loading themes seems to have gone, so will have to find out how to do that.

With apologies to your mnml template @jimmitchell I’ve been tinkering to make it even more like my old Yellow blog 😬

Love these crisp evenings

It’s been a good weekend for birdlife around here, and snow of course. Obligatory shot: Barn Owl quartering the margins of the wood yesterday morning, followed by a pair of Peregrine in the afternoon. Pair of Blackcap on the feeder this morning, good to see them still around, haven’t …

This is crazy. Snow all around and a warm wind in the face 🤪

Turtle and Bee.

Makes you wonder what’s going on here. No kind of subsidy scheme supports a bumper crop of thistles.

Soaring Buzzard 🦅

Well, that was a surprise. Sat on the decking having a small beer after work and listening to R4, when a Polecat sauntered by. Has a brief thought about going in through my open front door, but wandered out under the garden gate 👍

A client gave me a bag of the biodiversity seed mix they’d established. Coming up well in my garden 🥀

The new project 😃 ✈️

🐦‍⬛ At last, a good number of House Martins have appeared. Only seen the odd one or two over the last couple of weeks.

Up on the Trust land yesterday - young Lapwing doddering about, plenty brooding - weather awful. Behind the house, Summer has come or at least for 4 Swallow, feeding along the woodland edge 🐦‍⬛

Pretty unusual, but unmistakable, were a couple of male Smew on the flooded edge of a wood, not far behind the house.

Yellow Hammer (male) red-list visitor to the garden 🐦‍⬛

I was pleased to see a Nuthatch and a Great Spotted Woodpecker both in the garden yesterday, but not surprised as they’ve been before. However, today I was really pleased to see a pair of Siskin 😀

Liquid Gold

🎬 So good Sugar

My little homage to Howard Hodgkin (1932 – 2017), inspired by his Night Thoughts and criminally done on an iPad using Procreate.

Great to see a pair of Tree Sparrows in the garden this morning.

🎬 Really enjoying Dark

Thanks Tutanota mail, you just duplicated my entire contacts. It’s going to take days to delete them.

54.522,-1.891: A pair of Oyster Catcher have appeared this morning, having a splash about in the water lying in the rigg and furrow.

What Orion needs is the NetNewsWire extension, badly 😜

A few days with Orion, really impressed, search included 👏

Trying another upload from the official app @cliffordbeshers Well that exhausting

Just thinking that it’s over two years since I last picked up a paint brush, and I haven’t missed it. Yet. This is one of the last I did - they were following a new style - but my thoughts are now turning back to photography, which I was interested in long before I started painting.

And you certainly should not be showing up in my timeline 😜

Geo to Gluon Shortcut Gets the current location and opens Gluon so you can start a new entry and paste in the location data to the title field. Requires micro.blog-map and Gluon set to reveal title field. www.icloud.com/shortcuts

Outwitting squirrels - the Heath Robinson approach

52.2619,-0.47833: Feeling the urge again… G-CBUN

The rain has gone 👍❄️

Is it? Ben Howard 🎵

Shortcut - Gets the current location and date, adds a selection of text and opens the micro.blog app, so you can start a new entry. Paste in the clipboard which opens the Title field, move the location coordinates to that Title field and replace the body text with whatever you want. (Gluon used to …

Sing Spaceship, Sing! 🎵

Just used ChatGPT to write a php array sum from a loop through my site - perfect in a couple of seconds - don’t know what I’m going to do with the rest of my day 🤣

Ex Eye 🎵

Actual Life 🎵

Recently got switched on to MarkEdit and I’m hooked. Just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown.

54.522020,-1.892302: First Swallows of the year for me. About a dozen or so just drifted past the house, not sure if I was the final destination or they’re moving on, but lovely to see.

54.67004,-1.69423: First establishment of a wildflower mix going in for Biodiversity 🌞 more to follow shortly and more diverse plots and woodland in the pipeline 👍

Luna Castlefield Ophelia 5 May 2010 - 6 March 2023 Glory Days

Concerned to realise some svg elements weren’t rendering on spotthehall in chrome/brave/vivaldi type browsers, so did a little digging and tracked it down to the way I was creating the svgs. Those made in Gravit didn’t render and those from Inkscape did. Having opened them in a text …

The paperless office…

54.49550,-1.68454: Aldbrough sky.

This is what I was actually looking for. Given to me when the Ukrainian gymnast team came to look around Raby Castle - they hadn’t the entry fee so I let them in and this is wasn’t they gave me. Even prouder now.

It always happens. You’re looking for one thing and find another. An old badge from my school days in Westmorland, serendipitously turned-up just as Westmorland is about to come back to life as a unitary authority 👍 Back in (micro.blog) harness again. Feels good!

There were sheep

Kentmere

Over home

Out of reach

Switching to an iPad pro 12.9” as my main computer (along with iPhone) is proving really refreshing and enjoyable. Using essentially one OS is becoming more intuitive and I’m glad I kept my old favourite Apple Magic 1 keybord - until perhaps the Satechi Aluminum Slim Bluetooth Keyboard becomes …

Outa here

Waiting

54.485657,-1.832640: Teal dot

Narnia

Snow-ray

54.472514,-1.954580: The Stang

Beware: This takes coordinates entered into the Title field of your micro.blog and passes them to a marker on an Apple or Google map. So it messes-up using that Title for anything else! Github link I recommend Gluon for posting to micro.blog, because it exposes the Title field even when the posts …

Just ordered Bluemantle by Karen Langston 📚

Currently reading: Little Book Of Humanism by Alice Roberts 📚

Thinking of Luna

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Quick evolution of my drawing of leaves! This one pencil on cartridge paper (1986), previous leaf on drafting film, before that watercolour on Arches smooth paper and finally a Procreate drawing on an iPad (3rd Gen.) Now I have an iPad pro 12.9”, working on some new stuff 😃🎨

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The MapFinder replacement by OS Maps has prompted me to move to Viewranger I can still get the UK OS maps plus everywhere else. A more sophisticated product.

Just started reading a book bought for my birthday last year, now I’ve moved house (twice) and really enjoying it. A fascinating account of an early fighter pilot’s life James McCudden Flying Fury 📚

Test from micropublish to my test micro.blog using location information and the swarm plugin - successful 👍

Manton has forked my Swarm micro.blog Swarm on Github. Links Foursquare logins via OwnYourSwarm to a micro.blog article and map.

Hey my micro.blog-swarm plugin is live on the list github.com/microdotb… 😃

Foursquare Swarm is now working via OwnYourSwarm to micro.blog articles and map. Can’t find any issues so far… hopefully plugin to come https://hall-test.micro.blog/2020/07/13/the-morritt-country.html

Map Plugin now varied to accept Foursquare logins via OwnYourSwarm - creates a link to and from a micro.blog map. @manton Example: hall-test.micro.blog/2020/07/1…

GeoTag plugin OK so the GeoTag plugin is working OK now with the Kiko theme. There is a duplication of the css link in the head of the page, but better than leaving-out the javascript link as it was at first. There are styling issues with other themes, but I’ll have to find a happy medium so …

Hmm, do I want Cyph? Now that Zoom has acquired Keybase I’ve got an invite to join Cyph, but not sure if I want a new secure (even if it is the most secure) messaging/encryption solution, with Bitcoin wallet… Did you jump @eli ?

A world of colour.

✈️ Just love Ivan Shaw’s ISA 180 Seeker

Looks like Google Calendars are screwed.

✈️ I find this very exciting news 👍 World’s first type certificate for electric aircraft to Pipistrel - FLYER

When I heard about Hey email, I thought about ippimail and the way it went - trouble was, they forgot to charge for the service.

Rooting through some old teenage drawings for model aircraft - may get out X-Plane and fashion a model. ✈️

Wow, just got an email from the long forgotten sublevel, now back as Subreply.

Eyed Hawk-moth (undisturbed - so not showing “eyes”) Smerinthus ocellata

With every breath we take, we must commit to being that change, and to creating a better, more just world for everyone. — Tim Cook 💬

📷 all quiet near Barnard Castle 😶

As a (free trial) subscriber of Apple TV+, I just had a helluva hard time finding anything on my iPad, until I relaunched the tv app. The bottom menu bar had not been showing, therefore limiting me to my purchased library only. Every time I linked through from the itunes store, it just went to my …

From Dairy Bridge to the Meeting of the Waters.

From Dairy. Bridge.

54.506035,-1.882840: Luna went bang on point on going around the end of a wall. I expected the usual Pheasant, but amazingly (especially at this time of day) it was a Nightjar on the ground, within 6 feet. It gently wafted into a nearby tree, but flew off again before I could get close enough with my iPhone.

54.512736,-1.865038: Welcome iAWriter 😃. On another note, my dog (Luna) just used one of her lives up -retrieved from playing on the dual-carriageway…

54.509751,-1.847358: Ah Curlews, plenty!

You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. — Steve Jobs 💬

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets. – Leonardo da Vinci 💬

Remembering my father on this VE Day, his role as Head of Rolls Royce Laboratories and crucial work on the Merlin engine. Thanks Dad.

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore. — Albert Einstein 💬

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions. — Winston Churchill 💬

We are part of nature. We aren’t separate from nature. — David Attenborough 💬

Luna. 10 today 🖖

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Golf is like bicycle shorts, it reveals a lot about a man. — Rick Reilly 💬

Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite. ~ I told you I was ill. – Spike Milligan ((epitaph) 💬

I have an About page. Finally!

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 30 Prompt: Drink

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 29 Prompt: Tool

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 28 Prompt: Soft

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 27 Prompt: Low

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 26 Prompt: Air

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 25 Prompt: Self

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 24 Prompt: Orange

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 23 Prompt: Shallow

I saw that

Swallows have arrived 😃

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 21 Prompt: Full

House Martins have arrived 😀

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 20 Prompt: Black

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 19 Prompt: Balance

I really wanted the iPhone SE to be a 4.7” (feels wrong to type a decimal point in an Imperial measurement, even if it is a period) edge-to-edge chinless design 🤔

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 18 Prompt: Still

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 17 Prompt: Gold

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 16 Prompt: Angle

April Photoblogging: Day 15 Prompt: Glass

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 14 Prompt: Smooth

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 13 Prompt: Dark

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 12 Prompt: Metal

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 11 Prompt: Cold

Got into Tales from the Loop last night. Quirky 🙂

Just loving my new iPad pro. I got the 12.9” version and finding it a joy to work on, both fast and great to draw on (feels like cheating) but I think a stylus on a digital device is just an evolution of an artist’s medium. Love the pointer, feels instantly natural. 🎨

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 10 Prompt: Fire

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 09 Prompt: Rules

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 08 Prompt: Symmetry

📷 Really rather nice

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 07 Prompt: Texture

Tom a’Choinich in splendid isolation ⛰

I largely agree with you @hutaffe about the iPad, but I am having fun in the garden shed with my new iPad pro - Textastic is grunting a bit about the file sizes but it’s grinding out the D3 - some work prepped on the iMac first though. For me, I think I made the right choice with going for an iPad, …

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 06 Prompt: New

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 05 Prompt: Night

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 04 Prompt: Lines

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 03 Prompt: Triangle

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 02 Prompt Macro

📷 April Photoblogging: Day 01 Prompt Pink

📷 water’s down, footpath re-opened

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📷 a good clutch!

…that didn’t take long 😀

Registered davidhall.blog domain with Hover and their connect service to micro.blog worked just fine for www (CNAME), but looks like it needs the A record entering manually, waiting to see…

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-23.99644,14.45796: Eduard Bohlen

I had a bash at picking my favourite Mac. - tricky 🤣 512pixels.net/2020/03/i…

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Nice to see that Hover has an easy connect for micro.blog 👍

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-20.50574,14.10919: 🎨 Desert Elephant

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This iPhone single take of the Hermitage is incredible and long… I’ve got it AirPlaying on the TV at the moment A place I’ve always wanted to visit.

🎨 Chirpy the Bengal Eagle Owl - one of the founding birds of Walworth Birds of Prey Done this afternoon in acrylic on Dibond aluminium panel 180x150mm

🎨 Goshawk

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I didn’t realise that the desktop micro.blog app converted pngs to jpgs 🤨 and I was trying to keep my paintings out of the photo stream - note to self.

Micro.blog “is the blog you will actually use.” I have adapted my method of linking articles to and from a map here within a subscription Micro.blog’s pages that again uses Leaflet and tiles from Open Street Map/Mapbox. See on Github This method will not be for everybody. I use the …

Re-arranged things, so no-longer does my Map page take over the single template and I can use the official Photos arrangement (and Replies if I want) 👍 Edit: but I’ll have to remember to upload pngs for my paintings…

Hmm, sticking with my former keyboard.

54.451,-1.878: 📷 Some sizeable trees brought down with the recent floods

54.513,-1.864: Hmm, Editorial seems to be misbehaving with grabbing the location data, but thanks to Gluon always having the Title field visible, using Apple Maps to get the coords and pasting it straight in is actually much easier 👍

One drawback of having my Map page is it occupies the _default/single template, so I can’t use a Replies or Photos page 🤔

54.5102,-1.87017: 🎨 Been seeing the Buzzard regularly on my morning walks, and with the overnight snow, thought it would make a suitable subject for a daily painting. Acrylic on Dibond panel 150 x 180 mm

📷 Snow here on the River Greta ⛄️

🎨 Starting today, auctions of small paintings done within a day - Daily Paintings - something I have wanted to do for a while now, but looking forward to the discipline of it. I’ve termed them my “Glimpses” not only of wildlife and moments in time, but also glimpses into future larger paintings.

📷 ✈️ Rather proud of my new panel 😎

Oops, getting an error on my “www” url - posts, photo loading and feed www.spotthehall.net/2019/05/1… www.spotthehall.net/uploads/2… www.spotthehall.net/feed.xml Error: unknown error OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError @manton

📷 Nice find in the orchard earlier last year (just found the photo that reminded me) a wild honey bee hive.

📷 Found it! A day late, but my effort to celebrate the Moon Landing - from (about) 1974 - a school visit to Jodrell Bank.

Just bagged myself www.davidhall.uk 👍

A variation on my Micro.blog Map using Google Maps, see davidhall.co/noodles/m…

Using a Google Map with Micro.blog for the linking articles to and from a map here. As before, I use the Title for the coordinates - but this time you need to pass an idividual “ID” for each marker - so I use the sanitised date as required by Hugo. As before, within your Micro.blog …

Well, there you go Brydge, as thought Apple did it with accessibility support for Magic Trackpad. Who’s going to be the first to launch a keyboard with trackpad for iPadOS 🤔

An update to my Datenstrom Yellow map due to the v 0.8 upgrade. --- Published: 2008-09-26 Layout: blog psn: 54.029582,-2.113986 --- Blog Layout I use our Geotagicon to signify the link to the map somewhere within the article, which is diplayed using the following code: <p><?php …

Mapping Micro.blog Micro.blog “is the blog you will actually use.” I have adapted my method of linking articles to and from a map here within a subscription Micro.blog’s pages that again uses Leaflet and tiles from Open Street Map/Mapbox. See on Github This method will not be for …

Brilliant! Thanks to the Hugo Community I’ve solved the issues of linking to and from my map and back. I’ll post a full description soon @manton

Thanks to the great guys over at Hugo, I’ve solved the issue of my map markers appearing :) However, I am getting an interjection of “%2c” for the “,” character in my html link to a specific position on the map. Is there a way of altering this coding? @manton @help

It has been an interesting execise attempting to pass front matter variables! Using the straightforward {{ .Title }} renders the coords OK in the Page, but they acquire quotes in the script. Usung .Scratch renders the ref {{ .Title }} (not the coords). Using .Params.title renders text in the Page …

Well, some progress - multiple posts coming into the Map. However, when bringing in the Front Matter variable (in this case the Title) I get “quoted” coords instead of the bare coords (which doesn’t work). A general call-out to anybody who knows Hugo and bringing Front Matter into …

51.1526,0.3696: 📷 🌷 Test Iris pix

OK, the flurry of posts means my updated Yellow site and consolodated feed is working! On another note, GeoPosting from Editorial is the way ahead - until micro.blog gives additional access to the Front Matter that is 😜

Just a test Workflow in Editorial

Micro.Blog.Map up - nothing on it yet… davidhall.net/map/

Result! Following from previous post, iCab has found the GeoData and it successfully links out to GoogleMaps - now to try and pick that data up in the custom Map page. @manton @vincent

51.1441,0.3716: This is a test to see if iCab picks up the ICBM data from the header of the custom theme I’m using in micro.blog. The title field does seem to remain even if I delete text back below the “threshold”. It is really a cheat, but thought I’d give it a go before I try to feed it through to a custom …

52.26117,-0.48027: 📷 ✈️ Over the threshold. Permit renewed

Why, when I add a location on AppleMaps to a contact, does it move the location to somewhere completely different 😳

I can remember starting my first real “professional” job, when a salary was a perk and you were really expected to work for the privilege of it. Strange times

📷 Learning to ride a bike (with assistance).

Waiting for iTrackpadot I spent the last couple of weeks trying to use my iPad almost exclusively, paired to an old Apple bluetooth keyboard. I was doing this really in anticipation of buying a Brydge keyboard, to see if I thought I could live with the setup. However, even after a brief spell, I …

I find it really infuriating that Search All Bookmarks doesn’t work in iOS, whereas it does (as it should) in MacOS.

📷 ✈️ Learning to Hang Glide 1980 in Dovedale, Derbyshire.

Wouldn’t it be cool if gocoedit.app Trackball could somehow be mapped to a trackpad on a Brydge keyboard. Just pondering.

…well, when I say they’ve gone, I had to go and put a Title on the last post, didn’t I!?

The curious tale of domain links After tinkering with my design (as you do), the new version showed just fine without www in the address, whereas the previous incarnation was showing with www. I noticed because my timeline was showing links to my custom domain name below the post and leading to the …

Just dawned on me that instead of sitting at the desk using MAMP on an iMac, I can lounge around with an iPad and Textastic previewing localhost in split screen for D3 etc, so simple.

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An interesting observation on quitting Facebook/Instagram. Mostly supportive and respectived, but some agressive. I leave the reader to ponder that.

The recent terrible news surrounding Instagram/Facebook has finally made my mind up to delete those accounts. At least that felt good.

📷 Networking

📷 Micro landscape

Wouldn’t it be nice if a Brydge iOS keyboard had a trackpad that supported the “keyboard-as-trackpad functionality”… must be a way?!

Yep - I just backed HyperDrive: World’s 1st USB-C Hub for iPad Pro 2018 on @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/…

Blog now updated to using .md file endings instead of .txt and a quick test from Editorial to m.b with location.

📷 ✈️ If you can’t buy yourself at least one decent 🎄 present…

Glad to see our Open Share Icon is still alive and kicking on Shareaholic and listed on Harnessing the Power of Icon Standards Licensed: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License The Open Share icon conveys the act of sharing by visually representing one hand passing an object to …

The Geo Tag Icon site we created has now long gone, so I thought I’d give the old girl a home. One day I may make something more from this, but for now, thanks to Alexander Clauss for bundling it in iCab (I’ve a soft spot for iCab) and it has it’s place in Harnessing the Power of …

Indie Microblogging or perhaps it should be micro.blog as seems to be the new name for the forthcoming timeline and publishing platform for the open web.

Blips, snippets and micros. Microblogs are cool :)

Updated my previous Leaflet installation to the new “open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interface map”. Implementation consists of a Leaflet Template and a geo Partial file, you could ude a link in the Article/Post code - such as: <div class="code"><a …

Nearly 5 years later and with many treatise for action (including the LAA), the Inspector despite having been paid, did absolutely nothing and inspected nothing. Once again I had to move area for work and the project (plus a trailer I’d built in the meantime) were sold. I’d registered …

I’ve gradually refined my method of running this website and posting, in no part as a result of reading A plea for baked blogs and prompted by an article on Egg Freckles in praise of RapidWeaver. My particular method allows mobile posting, and does not require a DropBox sync as with Second …

Leaflet is “a modern, lightweight open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps” and here I show how my Stacey method of linking articles to a map works with Leaflet (refer to the previous posts for the Stacey end of things). Implementation consists of a Leaflet …

Just got my Registration Certificate through from the CAA in an amazing 1 day turnaround. Following on from Richard Teverson registering his aircraft as G-LUCL, I’ve taken the English translation of Luciole - Firefly - and naturally came up with G-FIFY, thought I’d bag it before anybody …

Colomban Aircraft MC 30 “Luciole” Dimensions: Wing Span: 6.90 m Wing Area: 4.60 msq Aspect Ratio: 10.35 Length: 4.72 m Fuselage Width: 0.62 m Fuel Capacity: 29.51 l Weights: Empty Weight: 97 kg Max Take Off Weight: 200 kg Wing Loading: 43.5 kg/msq (9 lb/sqft) Engine: Briggs & …

Nicely made and anodised captive nuts, courtesy David Lawry. Michel Colomban advises abrading the surface prior to gluing with anodised materials, however, I just read this from the EAA Experimenter Newsletter: ANODIZE - or anodising, is an electrolytic passivation process used to increase the …

Simloc or K Nuts, as supplied by Speciality Fasteners & Components Ltd. All batch identified with Certificate of Conformity.

The Luciole spar pultrusions have eventually appeared. I collected them, the seat back tubing and undercarriage legs from fellow builder Milt Turner #203. It’s good to put a face to the names on emails and voices at the end of phone calls. There is some real impetus now with sourcing …

Luciole construction is well underway, made easier with the use of Klegecell foam for the wing ribs.

I eventually got my money back from Aero-Decoupe and have started to reorder elsewhere. The first to arrive is a tail-kit from HDC, which consists of pre-cut klegecell ribs and ply nose sections. Well worth the short cut in construction time, after the mucking around since January.

Oh yes, I got myself a trailer as well. Gross weight 650 kg with leaf springs, so it should be able to cope with a Luciole, the bits and pieces inside a substantial weatherproof housing.

The well made Luciole engine conversion parts have arrived from HDC. You must be prepared to wait for these parts, mine took a little over 6 months, but it was pretty much on the scheduled delivery date. As many of the other more basic bits and pieces still haven’t turned-up, looks like I will …

A revision and slightly expanded explanation of my previous method of linking articles to a map, and back on Stacey. As I have done away with the Archives, my Stacey “content” folder now contains: and below is the “templates” folder showing the “navigation” …

A well packaged box of nicely moulded carbon parts for the Luciole arrived this morning from Jacques Decock. Still waiting for the “various” consignment to arrive, before I can start actually building though.

I have a prop, an Arplast prop :) The exquisite ground adjustable Arplast Helice propellor made for the Luciole.

A method of linking articles to a map, and back on Stacey. This method works with the following file structure in Stacey: My front page has the current year, the Archives contain all previous years. Partials There are three new partials files which reside in the navigation folder. Firstly …

As advised, my engine was locally ordered as a domestic Briggs & Stratton product from the agricultural machinery suppliers in town, it very quickly appeared. I’ve done nothing with it yet, other than look at it. When the conversion bits arrive I will inspect a little more closely and …

My prefabricated parts from PIRON arrived this morning - impressed with the quality and service. I’ve always been keen on an aircraft engine being muffled, so was pleased that PIRON supplied (again beautifully made) an exhast/slincer that fitted snugly behind the engine and out of the airflow. …

Revised Blogofile GeoBlogging used on this site, simplified and with new, cleaner url parsing ;) Controller file Firstly create a new Controller file (same as before), say map.py which contains: from blogofile.cache import bf def run(): write_map(bf.posts, bf.util.path_join(bf.config.blog_path), …

This site has modified feeds to what comes out of the Blogofile v0.6 box, and instead of offering either atom or rss feeds, I’m just providing an atom feed for the main content (limited to the 7 latest) and a georss variant (unlimited) for anyone who wants that. Bruce (we worked on the …

Extending earlier principles used within Textpattern to populate your own Google Map with geo-located articles and reciprocal links, here I set out my current method of achieving the same with Blogofile. It actually turned out to much simpler and because Blogofile works with static files, this …

Turning on the excerpt option in the Blogofile config.py file and adding @${post.excerpt}@ to the info windows code of my maps, they now sport a short excerpt of the post, plus url parsing :)

I’d been down to see Richard Teverson and his lovely example G-LUCL. All the boxes had been ticked. My plans appeared at the beginning of 2009 and I’d got a new Inspector, paid to get my new workshop cleared and all was set-up for go. Following Twitter’s take-over of Posterous and …

Automator application to launch Sunrise browser on webkit. Download First ensure you have a webkit nightly installed and you have Sunrise. Drag the dowloaded SunriseWK into your Applications folder. Ensure webkit is not running - launch SunriseWK - Sunrise will launch and if not already there, will …

Automator application to launch Shiira on webkit. Download First ensure you have a webkit nightly installed and you have Shiira or if they’re being tardy at updating the site (or the page is rendering as text), from Sourceforge. Drag the dowloaded ShiiraWK into your Applications folder. Ensure …

Geo-Blogging using Textpattern and jQuery (This work-through is posted on TXT Tips.) Based on the code described by Matt Davis, I have incorporated some of the previous work done for the xml driven map and hope to add some extras as time goes on. Overview Information is entered into …

A method of geotagging when using Textpattern. (This work-through is an updated text to that on TextBook) Based on the method described by David Ramos, but uses a newer Google AJAX API Version 1 and Maps API v2, plus includes some extras. Information is entered into Custom Fields, extracted from …

Automator application to launch iCab 4 on webkit. Download First ensure you have a webkit nightly installed and you have iCab 4 from Alexander. Drag the dowloaded iCabWK into your Applications folder. Ensure webkit is not running - launch iCabWK - iCab will launch. To reassure yourself that iCab is …

Toolbar icon set for iCab. Download Download and unzip, then right-click on iCab in your Applications folder and select Show Package Contents. Click on the Contents folder and perhaps make a copy of the Resources folder first before dragging in the contents of the downloaded Resources to replace the …

The CX-4 had made an appearence in the Popular Flying magazine back in 2006, then an invition to start projects around 2009. I’d got myself re-established and a new workshop set-up, so I decided to re-visit what was on offer and not put all my eggs in one basket to begin with. As one option, I …

Automator application to launch Demeter on webkit. Download First ensure you have a webkit nightly installed and you have Demeter from Hurrikenux. Drag the dowloaded DemeterWK into your Applications folder. Ensure webkit is not running - launch DemeterWK - Demeter will launch. To reassure yourself …

With no further progress being made a 3-year window of frustration, part-time work, caring for an ailing parent and starting an MSc was eventually closed by the death of said parent and the need to sell the family house. The Starlet project had sadly to be sold and I had to set about finding a new …

Shiira v.Vizsla browser Download Please read this and back-up any files I have included here - before installing. In this download I’ve included the Shiira.sql and SearchEngineIcon.dat files. These should be dragged into your …home/Library/Application Support/Shiira folder only if you …

SafariDockStatus If anyone was missing the little red highlight of feeds on the Safari dock icon – well here’s an updated version 1.1 that works with Safari v3, webkit nightlies and v4. The size of the unread feed count label may be controlled from the Safari menu SafariDockStatus Preferences. I …

A friend Bruce has been working on standardising a Geotagging icon since our discussion started following an article I posted on Map Inspecting, and I think he’s come up with a good design - featured in his explanatory article - I am also thinking Bruce should start a standalone Geotagging …

As I mention in my Info section, I have long thought I'’d like a Google Map section to geo-tag photographs to, in a similar manner to Flickr and Panoramio. I like the Flickr implementation, but the quality of mapping isn'’t as good as Googles'. Well now it'’s landed (example only - …

Toolbar icon set for Shiira. Download Download and unzip, then right-click on Shiira in your Applications folder and select Show Package Contents. Click on the Contents folder and perhaps make a copy of the Resources folder first before dragging in the contents of the downloaded Resources to replace …

Simple Automator application, based on AppleScript, that passes-off the RSS to NewsGator Online when using Camino. RSS2NG Camino Install this Automator application in your Application folder. Open Camino, go on Camino>Preferences>General>Default Feed Viewer and choose RSS2NG. In Camino, …

Simple Automator application, based on AppleScript, that passes-off the RSS to Google Reader when using Camino. RSS2GR Camino Install this Automator application in your Application folder. Open Camino, go on Camino>Preferences>General>Default Feed Viewer and choose RSS2GR. In Camino, when …

There followed a bizarre series of events with the (then) PFA over the Mini-Imp. It was listed on the Approved list of aircraft for building and there was one example in the UK that I went to see and was given video footage of it flying. So, even though it was not conventional, out of interest I …

The original Corby Starlet had a 2-cylinder engine and I love the look of it, but from my perspective, being able to use a Jabiru with electric start would help preserve my digits - painting may suffer. A 2-cylinder Jabiru prototype made an appearence, but apparently it didn’t go anywhere, …

The Colibri MB2 had been high on my list, good reports from people who had flown them and it looks great. Trouble was getting plans. The deciding point between this and a Corby Starlet was the fact that Max Brugger would only accept cash sent to Switzerland for the plans. So, I bought the Starlet …

The Taylor Monoplane and Titch were high on the list for homebuilding - the prototype indeed being built in a home. The Titch I think this South African version of the Mono is cutest I’ve ever seen :) Jabiru power has made it to the Mono I did favour the Mono because of the lower power/wing …

Now back in Yorkshire, I’ve started work on a new workshop. The old garage has been demolished and a two storey structure is taking it’s place. Should give a good roomy space below a new painting studio above.

As a kid, one of my first R/C models was a Tipsy Nipper, so it was the narural place to start when I was thinking of building my own real one. I can’t remember now where the kit came from, but I had a 2-channel control system so I remember it being rudder/elevator. I bought my first OS engine …