http://www.martinp23.com Martinp23's ramblings Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:30:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have just seen this photo which is being used to encourage support for the Royal British Legion (RBL) during this year's appeal. The story behind the image, as I understand it, is that the lady shown there, Tina Thompson, lost her husband while he was on his way to ... http://www.martinp23.com/2007/11/05/poppy-appeal/ The Wikimedia Foundation's latest fundraiser has gone off to a flying start, despite the usual teething problems (namely a rather garish site-notice greeting users on every page). A (probably unforeseen) consequence of WMF's popularity is that a video of the Foundation's founder, Jimbo Wales,  started to fail to stream fully.  ... http://www.martinp23.com/2007/10/23/wikimedia-fundraiser/ Ubuntu Gutsy was released this week, and I have to say that it's an excellent release. Some nice (and important) things: Wireless works immediately on my Dell Inspiron 1501, after enabling it in restricted-drivers. A great change from feisty where I had to mess around with manually installing ... http://www.martinp23.com/2007/10/21/gutsy-out-tribalwars-fever/ After a couple of years of hosting my websites on a cheap, but slow host, I'vefinally taken the leap and moved to Dreamhost, and things certainly seem to be going well. This change has given me "an excuse" to start blogging again - we'll see if I can keep it ... http://www.martinp23.com/2007/10/03/new-blog-new-ubuntu/