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2023

UK Web Archive Technical Update - Spring 2023

First publicised in this UK Web Archive blog post.This is a summary of what’s been going on since the 2022 Q4 report....

Web Archives

My Format Identification Misunderstandings

As the ZIP scanning issue keeps getting updated, I realised I made some errors in my analysis of how DROID works.I’ve...

Digital Preservation

More Magic From Siegfried

Following on from the previous post, I was experimenting with Siegfried and found it to be even faster than I was exp...

Digital Preservation

Speeding Up Format Identification

In the last few days, I’ve been going through the process of updating my Nanite wrapper for DROID, which I built to m...

Digital Preservation

Making websites archivable with JavaScript

A recent comment from the #DHNB2023 conference caught my eye… If you just follow web archiving friendly standards, y...

Websites  Web Archives

Letting search engines into the archive

Usually we don’t let search engines index web archives. When sites are still live, we don’t want the archived versio...

Web Archives

UK Web Archive Technical Update - Winter 2023

This is a summary of what’s been going on since the update at the start of the autumn. 2022 Domain Crawl Completion ...

Reports  Web Archives

Making Blogging Easier

I’m not really into new year resolutions, but I would like to get back into blogging. I’d like to be a better writer,...

2022

Revisiting Web Rings

Recently, for no particular reason I’m sure, there seems to have been a renewed interest in more distributed and comm...

Websites

UK Web Archive Technical Update - Autumn 2022

This is a summary of what’s been going on since the update at the start of the summer. Website Refresh 2022 Domain ...

Reports  Web Archives

UK Web Archive Technical Update - Summer 2022

Following on from the last quarterly update, we’ve been able to make some good progress despite being understaffed du...

Reports  Web Archives

UK Web Archive Technical Update - Spring 2022

This is a summary of what’s been going on since the last update, at the start of the year. Hadoop storage and replic...

Reports  Web Archives

UK Web Archive Technical Update - Winter 2022

During the last quarter of 2021, the technical services that make up the web archive underwent lot of changes behind ...

Reports  Web Archives

2018

Continuous, incremental, scalable, higher-quality web crawls with Heritrix

AbstractUnder Legal Deposit, our crawl capacity needs grew from a few hundred time-limited snapshot crawls to the con...

Web Archives  Digital Preservation

Story of a Bad Deed

I love a digital preservation mystery, and this one started with question from @joe on digipres.club:A mystery file, ...

Digital Preservation  Keeping Codes  Lessons Learned

2017

Sustaining the Software that Preserves Access to Web Archives

Today is the inaugural International Digital Preservation Day, and as a small contribution to that excellent global e...

Web Archives  Digital Preservation

Driving Crawls With Web Annotations

Originally published on the UK Web Archive blog on the 10th of November 2017.The heart of the idea was simple. Rather...

Web Archives  Digital Preservation

Tools for Legal Deposit

Before I revisit the ideas explored in the first post in the blog series I need to go back to the start of this story...

Web Archives  Digital Preservation

Digging Documents Out Of The Archived Web

AbstractAs an increasing number of government and other publications move towards online-only publication, we are for...

Data Mining  webarchive-discovery

Can a Web Archive Lie?

This is the script for the introduction I gave as part of a ‘Digital Conversations at the BL’ panel event: Web Archiv...

Data Mining

The Web Archive and the Catalogue

AbstractThe British Library has a long tradition of preserving the heritage of the United Kingdom, and processes for ...

Data Mining  Web Archives  Digital Preservation  webarchive-discovery

Revitalising the UK Web Archive

Originally published on the UK Web Archive blog on the 8th of June 2017.It’s been over a year since we made our histo...

Data Mining  Web Archives  BUDDAH  webarchive-discovery

More than just a copy

Following my previous post, a tweet from Raffaele Messuti lead me to this quote: “Computers, by their nature, copy. ...

Digital Preservation  Keeping Codes  Lessons Learned

Access starts with 'Loading...'

So what was going on in our little experiment in data destruction? Well, to understand what happens when we open up d...

Digital Preservation  Keeping Codes  Lessons Learned

Unsafe Device Removal: The Results

Following my proposed experiment in data destruction, a few kind readers tried it out and let me know what happened1....

Digital Preservation  Keeping Codes  Lessons Learned

Unsafe Device Removal

Let’s start with an experiment…MaterialsFor this experiment, you will need: An USB flash drive of little importance....

Digital Preservation  Keeping Codes  Lessons Learned

Digital Preservation: Lessons Learned?

I find working in digital preservation fascinating.It’s not where I expected to end up. I started off interested in c...

Digital Preservation  Keeping Codes  Lessons Learned

2016

Frontiers in Format Identification

I came to work on digital preservation through the PLANETS project, and later the SCAPE project (for the first year) ...

Format Registry  Digital Preservation  Collaboration

Building Tools to Archive the Modern Web

Four years ago, during the 2012 IIPC General Assembly, we came together to discuss the recent and upcoming challenges...

Web Archives

Updating our historical search service

Originally published on the UK Web Archive blog on the 15th of February 2016.Earlier this year, as part of the Big UK...

Data Mining  Web Archives  BUDDAH

2015

The provenance of web archives

Originally published on the UK Web Archive blog on the 20th November 2015.Over the last few years, it’s been wonderfu...

Web Archives  BUDDAH  Data Mining  Digital Preservation

Playing at Web Archiving

A few months ago, a colleague suggested that we should come up with ways of helping people learn about the main stage...

Web Archives  Digital Preservation  Publications

Let Them Emulate!

On the first day of the IIPC GA 2015, the morning keynote was Digital Vellum: Interacting with Digital Objects Over C...

Digital Preservation

Sentiment Trajectories

As a computational physicist working in a library, my background and training is quite different to the curators and ...

Visualisation  Data Mining  Digital Humanities

Ten years of the UK web archive: what have we saved?

As published on the UK Web Archive blog.I gave the following presentation at the 2015 IIPC GA. If you prefer, you can...

Web Archives  Digital Preservation  Data Mining  Publications

Vellum

Following Vint Cerf’s talk at AAAS, the “Digital Dark Age” is in the news again (see DSHR’s blog for a good summary, ...

Digital Preservation

Building a historical search engine is no easy thing

As published on the UK Web Archive blog.Over the last year, we have been a part of the Big UK Domain Data for the Art...

Web Archives  BUDDAH  webarchive-discovery  Data Mining

Towards a Macroscope for UK Web History

As published on the UK Web Archive blog.This is the rough script of the demonstration I gave at IDCC15, with a few ex...

Web Archives  BUDDAH  webarchive-discovery  Data Mining  Publications

2014

Collecting Data To Improve Tools

First published on the UK Web Archive blog.Like many other institutions, we are heavily dependent on a number of open...

Web Archives  webarchive-discovery  Data Mining

What Have We Saved?

First published on the UK Web Archive blog.The UK Web Archive started archiving web content towards the end of 2004 (...

Web Archives  Digital Preservation

OPF Blog: User-Driven Digital Preservation

A new OPF blog entry: User-Driven Digital Preservation. Reproduced below…We recently posted an article on the UK Web ...

Digital Preservation  Preservation Actions  SCAPE  Web Archives

User-Driven Digital Preservation

First published on the UK Web Archive blog.When we archive the web, we want to do our best to ensure that future gene...

Digital Preservation  Preservation Actions  SCAPE  Web Archives

Web Archiving In The JavaScript Age

First published on the UK Web Archive blog.Among the responses to our earlier post, How much of the UK’s HTML is vali...

Web Archives  Digital Preservation  Data Mining

How much of the UK's HTML is valid?

First published on the UK Web Archive blog.How much of the HTML in the UK web archive is valid HTML? Despite itsappar...

Web Archives  Digital Preservation  Data Mining

2013

OPF Blog: Digital Preservation War Stories

A new OPF blog entry: Digital Preservation War Stories. Reproduced below…I’ve started to publish some of my notes on ...

Digital Preservation  War Stories

OPF Blog: The Registries We Need

A new OPF blog entry: The Registries We Need. Reproduced below…If you’ve not already read it, I urge you to go and re...

Digital Preservation  Format Registry

2012

OPF Blog: Analysing the formats in the UK Web Archive

A new OPF blog entry: Analysing the formats in the UK Web Archive. Reproduced below…Today, the UK Web Archive is rele...

Data Mining  Digital Preservation  Web Archives  webarchive-discovery

OPF Blog: Biodiversity and the registry ecosystem

A new OPF blog entry: Biodiversity and the registry ecosystem. Reproduced below…As Paul has already noted, there are ...

Digital Preservation  Websites  Format Registry

2011

OPF Blog: A Format Registry for SCAPE

A new OPF blog entry: A Format Registry for SCAPE. Reproduced below…In my previous post on formats, I ended up leanin...

Digital Preservation  Websites  Format Registry  Representation Information  SCAPE

OPF Blog: What do we mean by format?

A new OPF blog entry: What do we mean by format? Reproduced below…Bill’s earlier post and this one from Chris Rusbrid...

Digital Preservation

OPF Blog: OPF Year 1 - Visualisation of development activity

A new OPF blog entry: OPF Year 1: Visualisation of development activity. Reproduced below…This is what the first year...

Development

OPF Blog: Cargo Cult Standards

A new OPF blog entry: Cargo Cult Standards. Reproduced below…I’ve been keeping an eye on the #anadp11 Twitter backcha...

Digital Preservation  Representation Information

OPF Blog: Economical Access via Normalisation

A new OPF blog entry: Economical Access via Normalisation. Reproduced below…I’ve finally had time to consider David R...

Digital Preservation

Building A Collaborative Format Registry Editor

New OPF Blog: Building A Collaborative Format Registry Editor. Reproduced below…After Ross’s post, I thought I’d bett...

Digital Preservation  Websites

OPF Blog: Format Obsolescence and Sustainable Access

A new OPF blog entry: Format Obsolescence and Sustainable Access. Reproduced below…As David Rosenthal pointed out, a...

Digital Preservation

2010

OPF Blog: Is obsolescence overrated?

A new OPF blog entry: Is obsolescence overrated?. Reproduced below…I just wanted to point out a very interesting disc...

Digital Preservation

Experimenting with Hadoop

Thanks to our web archiving team (who lead the uk web archive project), I was given a day of training on using Hadoop...

Data Mining  Web Archives  Digital Preservation

OPF Blog: Breaking Down The Format Registry

A new OPF blog entry: Breaking Down The Format Registry. Reproduced below the fold.At the hackathon it was clear that...

Digital Preservation

OPF Blog: In the room

A new OPF blog entry: In the room. Reproduced below…One of my favourite parts of the Planets project was the service ...

Development  Digital Preservation

OPF Blog: Community and code

As well as blogging about digital preservation here, I’ve also got a blog on the Open Planets Foundation website wher...

Development  Digital Preservation

convergent evolution of curation services

I don’t know if it was coincidence, or by design, but the latest issue of the International Journal of Digital Curati...

Development  Digital Preservation

digital preservation news aggregation

Inspired by the excellent @dhnow social news service, I’ve set up a news aggregator for digital preservation. The @di...

Digital Preservation

2009

around britain in 43 marathons...

Eddie Izzard is currently about two-thirds of the way through his attempt to run up and down the entire UK. He’s runn...

fringe notes

Edinburgh. Used to live there, you know. Nice place. Been a while. Until last weekend. Visited the Blythes.Outline: d...

Reviews

random stuff

Clearing my back-log of random things on the internet I wanted to share…Centrifugal ForceKeep your tuna dolphin-frien...

Top Links

illustrating oil consumption

Occasionally, in comments on environmental stories and such, you see the old “we’re so small and the Earth is so big,...

Science

a simple website is a happy website

As you might have noticed, I’m in the process of re-jigging this website. The new look has been chosen largely just ...

Websites

lovely links

Well, there’s too many channels and too much noise.Should I twitter, or Facebook, or FriendFeed, or just collect deli...

2008

Zoetrope, an interactive time machine for the web

Adobe have been working on a cool user interface for visualising how web pages have changed over time, called Zoetrop...

Digital Preservation  Web Archives  Visualisation

science commons, the video

Science commons, the video, explaining all about how the science commons works.

Science  Open Access

well played, sir

Well, we all got the American president that they deserve. It’s good to hear about all the goodwill and hope in the ...

ted talks

I’ve been impressed by the growing volume of free talks, books and other high-quality informationalistic edupodloads....

Top Tips

searching the spoken word

One of the latest impressive innovations to come out of Google is that they have speech recognition software good eno...

Data Mining

the front fell off

</param></param></embed></object> That is all.A.

Procrastination

three strikes and you're offline

I noticed this boingboing article and despaired. This ridiculous legislation, which has already been explicitly reje...

Rants

not quite a flat white

I can now verify that asking for a “Short Cappuccino” in Starbucks does indeed work, at least here in Leeds. My orde...

Top Tips

flat white please

One of the minor pleasures of New Zealand was the Flat White. It’s essentially a cappuccino, but with a finer, cream...

Travels

dancing, intercontinentally

Read on for the most amusing video I’ve seen all year… </embed>Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew H...

Procrastination

the science of digital preservation

UPDATE: I’ve reconsided my position on this, and I think I’ve underestimated the issues involved in keeping the byt...

Digital Preservation

~980 double decker buses

For those of you who have trouble imaging how long 980 double decker buses would be, try imagining 1/38440th of the d...

interference from a past life

If you’re having trouble sleeping, you could try downloading a highly exciting readable article called Lattice-switch...

Science

it must be hereditary

After threatening it for a number of years, my Dad has finally set up his own web site. Find out more at Ron Jackso...

six months of weblogs missing in tragic data loss

The Prime Minister just appeared on television to apologise for the loss of the web log entries that should have been...

2007

visualising prime numbers in binary

For a while now, I’ve wondered what the prime numbers look like in binary, that is, if you paint the ones as white do...

Visualisation  Development

Keep Calm and Carry On

Keep Calm and Carry On Originally uploaded by I like.Now that’s good wartime advice. You can buy your own poster her...

nearly over...

We’re back in Renwick now, and today we will drive over to Picton, drop off the car and head back to Wellington. We’...

Travels

1,700 kilometers and rising...

We’re a week into our big trip, and are about to leave the north island and head over to Picton on the ferry for thre...

Travels

hot spots

Andy and I are just back from our first NZ road-trip together, during which we had lots of fun exploring the Central ...

Travels

otari-wilton's bush

While staying in Ngaio, we visited Otari-Wilton’s Bush… “Only 5 kilometres from downtown Wellington lies a unique tr...

Travels

comet mcnaught

The southern hemisphere is a great place to view Comet McNaught as it moves away from the Sun. It can be seen clearly...

Travels

first few days in wellington

After landing in Auckland and being compelled to declare our chocolate at Customs, we caught our Wellington flight wi...

Travels

christmas in los angeles

There haven’t been many updates to the site lately, and that’s because we’ve been very busy. Now it’s time to catch ...

Travels

2006

hurray!

Eilidh had her viva on Tuesday, and it went very well. After a small number of corrections are made and various admin...

festival: tim minchin

Last weekend the Edinburgh Festival Fringe kicked off, and we went to see our first show - Tim Minchin. We saw his ...

Reviews

a whole new experience...

We are now the proud recipients of our very first parking ticket. Great.

new look

I’ve been slowly working on a new look for this website and I’ve just switched it on. It’s not finished, and it almo...

Websites

fish

In 1989, while working at CERN, Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web so that scientists all across the world could share ...

seven minors (but where's Snow White?)

On Friday, I had my second driving driving test and I passed with a mere seven minors. It’s a huge relief to have pa...

ain't no stopping us now...

We both sat our driving tests last week (my 1st one and Eilidh’s 4th). Unfortunately I was a little too nervous and ...

250,000 powerballs

You’ve probably seen the recent advert for Sony Bravia TVs - it looks really cool (if you’ve not seen it, here’s a l...

Top Links

Stephen Colbert: Harsh, but Fair.

This weblog tends to go a bit political once in a while. This time, however, I’m going for politainment and rehashin...

Rants

thank you

Just a quick blog to say thank you all for the lovely cards, phone calls, emails and texts Eilidh & I have receiv...

engaged

Spring is finally here, I’ve survived my first winter for a few years, and things are going well. Really well. Eili...

hacks & plans

Here’s the plan. In order to distract you from the fact that there have been no upda...

Websites

2005

new server

Just to let you know that the website and my anjackson.net email may have been behaving strangely over the last few d...

home

Well, a lot has happened since I last updated the site. I’ve been home a few times, had two weddings to go to and, s...

lax

Well, various problems for Air New Zealand have left me 4hrs late. The connecting flights have been held, but I’m n...

Travels

cusp

I’ve been a bit worried, as for the last week flights from Wellington airport have been severely delayed due to foggy...

Travels

don't panic

Well, thanks for the feedback. After a number of people explained I was being insane, and probably guaranteeing that...

Travels

help!

The time has come for the fourth annual bi-hemispherical dash, and I’m looking for some help with a particularly trou...

Travels

tremble

I guess if you were brought up here, you must get more used to it. But personally, I just can’t imagine getting used...

cheese

Crikey. How out of touch am I? On a similar note to the Hitchikers thing, it turns out that Wallace & Gromit wi...

thumb

I’ve long been a fan of the work of Douglas Adam’s work. I read The Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy sometime in 6th f...

paucity

Well, it’s all been rather quiet on the old blog lately. I had some bad news recently that meant I really wasn’t in ...

geekysneakypeek

Well, it’s been a hectic couple of weeks, but the work has come along quite well. We’ve even managed to finish the p...

Science

minimac

Agh. My head asplode. They’ve finally done it. Apple have finally released an affordable Mac: the Mac mini. This ...

happy new year

Just a quick entry to say Happy New Year to you all, and wish you all a grand 2005. I’ve not made any resolutions, at...

2004

tsunami

It’s pretty near impossible to take it all in. I’ve been following the internet news coverage of the Indian ocean ts...

gratuitous maximus

Well, you might have noticed by now that I’ve been fiddling with the design of this site. The main problem was the b...

Websites

winging it

Well, I finally went over to Industrial Research Limited and gave them a mildy re-written version of the talk I gave ...

getting to grips with nearly everything

I’ve recently finished reading Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything, and I must say I was very impresse...

Science

qotd

This has to be the quote of the day, sent to me by Sarah who saw it in an Edinburgh newspaper over the weekend (The S...

shoot the breeze

Here’s a slide from the talk I gave to the group last Thursday. It went well, and it was probably the most relaxed ...

Science

the wrong speed

Jarvis says it better than me.:It seems quite ironic that at a time when whole departments in radio and TV stations a...

pretty as

Well, I thought it was about time I added some new photos to the site. It’s not like I havne been taking gazillions ...

Travels

upgrades and anti-rants

So, firstly, I feel like I should apologise for the previous political ranting. Yes, I know it’s more complicated th...

Testing Email Submissions

I have enabled email submission of pages. This is just a test to see ifit works. It’s not publicly accessible, by t...

the next four years

I doubt I am alone right now. Just one of millions of non-U.S. citizens pounding various election result webpages (e...

Rants

steam powered

If we ignore, for the moment, the disturbing sight of democracy being vigorously throttled by the self-righteous prop...

landed gently

Well, I’ve made it to Wellington, and have even turned up at work full of vim and vigour, or possibly full of somethi...

Travels

half-way there

Made it to LA with a minimum of fuss. It was actually a quite pleasant flight, with some fine views of Greenland and...

Travels

monster tracks

Monster track has to be Wow from Final Straw by Snow Patrol. It really rather hits the mark. In fact the whole albu...

green tights

Work at EPCC is over and I’ve made it home, stopping off along the way for a family get together at Centre Parcs in S...

Travels

reassuringly expensive

Well, I can’t get out of it now. I’ve just picked up my ticket to New Zealand, with a free stopover in LA to see Cat...

Travels

beautiful visage

Well, my work visa for New Zealand has come through, and I should be able to buy my ticket at the weekend. It all lo...

Travels

because you're worth it

I’ve not written for a while, and a few different things have got backed up, so I’ll bunch them all together into one...

Travels

the fringe begins

Well, after a slightly wobbly week (these malaria tabs are not without their wierd side effects), I’m looking forward...

steady progress

Well, work’s going fairly well, and I’m still managing to enjoy being back! It probably helps that the weather is pr...

almost too familiar

I guess it’s fair to say that the travelling is over now. Back to my old job, in my old office, with a new mix of ol...

Travels

roast beef

I’ve now had a few days running about and catching up with family, touring around from London to Penzance, Sutton-in-...

Travels

bacon

The flight was pretty long, but went well. It was great to see cloud-covered Europe again! David picked me up from ...

Travels

changing planes

Well, I’ve managed to sneak onto the Singapore Airport wireless internet service for free, which is helping while awa...

Travels

next stop: home

I’ve had a fine couple of days in Phenom Penh, zooming around on the back of motorcycles driven almost too fast and a...

Travels

all templed out

Well, after three solid days pottering about Siem Reap and Angkor, I think I’ve seen enough temples to last me a life...

Travels

cambodia rocks

After three days of fairly hectic travelling about, I’ve made to to Siem Reap in Cambodia, close to the famous temple...

Travels

close to the border

Well, I had a pleasant enough time on Ko Chang. The odd beer, a quiet little full-moon party, meeting the occasional...

Travels

yes, you can hate me now

Well, I’ve made it to the island of Ko Chang. Spend last night drinking beer and chatting to some locals on the beac...

Travels

bored of hills, bring on the islands [updated]

I’ve enjoyed relaxing in Chiang Mai, and some of the temples are really very fine indeed. Doi Suthep lived up to mos...

Travels

at least there's hills now

Well, I’ve made it to Chang Mai, and found an okay place to stay. The train ride was alright, but after having the s...

Travels

plans are good

Well, feeling a little better today, and generally had a more successful Bangkok experience. Booked a train to Chang...

Travels

Year of Firsts

Note: I’ve not finished editing and proofing this story yet, but feel free to have a read anyways.I’ve done many thi...

Travels

tuk-tuk-tastic

Made it! Mildly hectic afternoon but I’m really starting to enjoy this travelling game. Ended up in a place called t...

Travels

currently nowhere

Well, technically speaking, given that I’ve just passed through Singapore immigration (and am pottering around on som...

Travels

escaping Victoria...

Queen Victoria I mean, which appears to be impossible. I dunno, you travel a quarter of the way around the world, to...

Travels

excited & scared & sad & hopeful

Well, crikey, my last night in Wellington. Tomorrow morning I fly to Singapore for a few days, then most of a month ...

Travels

in a brown study

While hanging out with David, Jenny, Andy and Michelle, a heated argument broke out. The subject was one of those cl...

running out of time...

Well, it’s all going a bit crazy at the moment. I’ve booked my flights home (see dates on the right-hand side under ...

Travels

in a nutshell

Many years ago, I created an online database of links related to the RISC OS platform called Nutshells. I thought it...

Websites

kiwi tunes

Inspired by Graham’s efforts, I thought I’d tell you about some rather fine music I’ve discovered round these parts (...

blah blah blah

Well, crikey, gave a first-year lecture today. My boss couldn’t be there, so he asked me to cover for him. It was a...

Science

it's certainly been eventful of late

Well, crikey. Things were pottering along quite nicely and then all sorts of ups and downs appear from nowhere. I w...

clever google

Just to balance up after yesterday’s entry, I thought I’d tell you about a rather nifty new feature of Google. The s...

Top Tips

silly google

I rather like this image, taken from Google News. Their news pages are generated automagically, which is bound to ca...

back to reality, part one

Well, I’m back in Wellington. And after a fairly long day of travel I’m just itching to get back to work tomorrow. ...

Travels

more jam than man

Milford Sound, with clear blue skies. I am clearly too lucky by half. It was just so beautiful - awe inspiring. Lo...

Travels

autumn leaves

Well, after being duly impressed by the Haast Pass, and staying in Makarora for a night (very nice - middle of nowher...

Travels

jammy as a very jammy thing indeed

Crikey. I am blessed. Went onto the Franz Josef glacier today. The west coast gets 5-8 metres of rain a year - so ...

Travels

mouth of the grey

Well, after a rather hectic few hours, I’ve made it to Greymouth. The TranzAlpine crossing was fantastic - it really...

Travels

almost ready to go

Well, I’ve got some accomodation booked for the first few nights. I was worried for a second as Christchurch seems t...

Travels

now that's magic!

Crikey. I’ve just booked a Magic Bus Transalpine Experience, so it looks like next week’s trip is all sorted. Sure,...

Travels

buying pies with rainman

Great quotes during this trip… “I’m hungry like the wolf.” “It was like buying pies with rainman.” “But I’ve never...

Travels

the next journey

Well, I’m off to Taupo with Stewart (my flatmate) and Kim (a visitor to the lab) this weekend. Should be good. It’s...

Travels

mmmm.... cake....

Was looking for some cake recipes, as I am cooking cakes for friday-buns-on-thursday this week.During the process I d...

Top Tips

i blame Intel

Well, finally tracked down the optimization bug. A weird Intel chip + gcc issue that can be described as an ‘extende...

Development

bug hell

Horrible day. One of the codes I’ve inherited behaves very bizarrely. Usually it works, but sometimes if it’s compi...

Development

Quotification

Came across this quote, which I rather like. ‘Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.’ from The Sphinx W...

General

A plan of sorts.

Well, I’ve finally confirmed my leaving date for the job here at Victoria University Wellington. I’ll be finishing w...

Travels

Still faffing....

Well, I’ve moved the [Drupal] website into place as the actual anjackson.net website. Not nearly got all the content...

Websites

Skinning up.

Well, I’ve more or less finished munging the old website style into a skin for [Drupal], and it’s looking pretty good...

Websites

Getting there...

Well, this [Drupal] thing looks like it might just do the trick. Currently trying to move my preferred web page styl...

Websites

This rocks.

I mean, this really is rather fine…No tax on custard.And this is pretty good too.Anj