‘Twas Brillig*

I’ve just discovered local.live.com and sometimes the images are much better than google maps.

Aerial view of the first house I can remember living in, google maps can only show the whole of Cherry Willingham and virtually no detail.

Aerial view of the house I remember best from my childhood, google maps acheives roughly the same level of zoom but I prefer this one since it has the car I drive on it :-).

Aerial view of 2 Parker House where my grandparents (Partridge) used to live, google maps actually achieves a clearer image than this.

I know my grandparents (Bosman) used to live on Swallow Avenue, but I can’t remember where exactly, Google maps can only zoom in to the whole of Skellingthorpe.

My grandparents (Bosman) also used to live here. Google maps again can’t compete with this level of zoom and can only zoom into the whole of Wickford.

Via youtube. Hopefully Nintendo/Opera will release a localised version in the not too distant future, it may be slow but, the idea of using gmail from my DS does appeal.

PlusNet sent me an email about improvements to its customer services, the email also contains a link to graphs of broadband bandwidth usage which I think is extremely informative. I knew peer-to-peer usage was high, but didn’t realise quite how unrelenting the usage is.I also, perhaps naïvely, assumed that web usage would show a significant peak in the evening when in fact that is fairly static from 9am to midnight.

I found my church has a webpage but no rss feed - so with the help of feed43.com I have created one http://feed43.com/6662400211745288.xml

I’ve installed PhpGedView and my current site can be accessed at http://ccgi.bouncebounce.plus.com/genealogy.

Update 23-Jul-06: My domain is now live so the URL is http://www.stevebosman.co.uk/genealogy.

Code, Coke and coins has a useful item on pointing a domain at the plusnet ccgi server.

Just updated the menus for bouncebounce using Amaya, unfortunately they look rubbish in Firefox. It seems to add the width onto the padding - will have to investigate…

I’ve been using TiddlyWiki to keep working notes whilst installing Plumtree and it really is very good.

Of course I never did install a portlet since I mucked up the database install, so I’m going back to a backup virtual hardrive and starting again.

I spent yesterday trying to install plumtree on my work PC and gave up. I have spent today installing Plumtree Portal to run against supplied Tomcat on Windows 2000 Server all running inside a Microsoft Virtual PC. It should have taken half a day I reckon, but I made some errors which I’ll preserve for posterity.

1. I gave the wrong user details for running the automation server
2. I got the Host and SID muddled up when supplying database details
3. I forgot to give the correct ports for the imageserver and got no images

Nevermind the best way to learn is by your mistakes, or so I have heard. I feel decidedly less frustrated today than yesterday. Tomorrow I’ve just got to install a portlet on it, which is nice.