As Jeanette is in middle of creating a cookbook at the moment I thought I’d list some places you can get a book printed (obviously this is for short runs)
Useful site: www.thebookstore.co.uk (contains information about self-publishing)
List of 20 sites that offer self-publishing
Tags: self-publishing
Hugh, Zeynep and some bodgers
Old friend Hugh paid a fleeting visit to London on Monday and we met up with him and his lovely wife Zeynep at a local drinking hole.
Hugh reckoned it was his first proper pint for a few years.
Any time Hugh, any time!
Tags: hugh eland, pint, zeynep
Give a 5 year old a kidizoom digital camera and he’ll create “art”.
This photo set is the results with all the boring conventional photos taken out:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26860730@N07/sets/72157625780596379
No audio – this thread sorts it
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=88369
Tags: xbmc
Batch Rename Files
Although I use Textpad editor for search & replace functions generally, it does not extend to changing filenames. At work I needed to replace part of a filename in a number of PHP files. I found a very useful utility for doing a find and replace on large numbers of filenames at once. It’s called FileMonkey and you can get a copy here.
Amazon Kindle
can now ‘lend’ their books to other Kindle users, it was announced today. The new feature allows e-books bought for the Kindle platform to be lent out for 14 days, delivered by email and springing back to their owners automatically after the period is up. The books can also be read on free Amazon e-book readers for PC, Mac and Mobiles. Amazon explains how.
Tags: Book Lending, Kindle
Great Grandfather
I’ve started work converting my fathers spreadsheets of our family ancestry into electronic (and searchable form).
There’s been a huge amount of interest and development in online tools for tracing genealogy over the last 10 years, indeed it’s something the internet was almost made for. Unfortunately so far, little of the digitised data is freely available online (though freely available in public libraries). It seems as though the agencies which held the data have allowed monopoly providers to sell the data in return for their financial contribution to digitising the data.
The exception I’ve found has been Google Books – digitised versions of out of copyright books.
Searching on Google for unusual names, or a name with a date if you have it can also be fruitful. I found a website about a particular village where an ancestor had been the vicar and there was lots of additional information there.
List of Useful Tools
- TNG – software used to build the site. Requires PHP Hosting.
- MyHeritage – Desktop software, free version, used to produce printable vertical family trees.
- EzeePlan – very helpful printers who produced a 2x A0 size print on a single roll of paper. Very good value too.
View from Hungerford Bridge, London
Walking back to Waterlook station from Chinatown, after our weekly Chinese School trip, we crossed Hungerford bridge and I took this shot with my phone camera.
Tags: sunset
I don’t know who first came up with the idea that when the clocks go back at the end of British Summer Time that “you get an extra hour in bed”. They certainly didn’t have children. For us it was an hour less in bed. The kids still woke up at their usual time – as per their internal body clocks – whereas as we adults have gone to bed an hour later so got an hour less sleep. I’m on day 3 at the time of writing and there’s still no sign of their body clocks adjusting….
Tags: sleepy
