Some people such as Erich Schubert have suggested how to fold entries by editing planet’s CSS. I offer the following (works in recent firefoxes) as a userContent.css hack for how I fold long entries o…

I have resigned from my role at Canonical where I was a member of the team developing the soyuz portion of the Launchpad project and where I also did some work on Ubuntu also. I have been given the op…

Back on the 9th May, Anthony shared ten words beginning with the letter ‘I’ with us. When prompted he gave me the letter ‘E’ and I gathered some words up and never got around to formulating my post wi…

I am proud to announce the second release of my secret-sharing library (libgfshare). This release covers a few important things: Memory leak fix Manual pages for the tools and the concept. tar.g…

Behind Ubuntu interviewed me a little while back (just before I moved to Manchester really) and have since been coordinating translations of my undoubtedly trite and tired words into such languages as…

When I was 19, I bought a house. This house was just what I needed at the time, and in a great location for what I wanted. However over time it has become “not quite right”. So I started to look for a…

…shame about the subject. A few weeks ago, on the launchpad sprint, I had the opportunity to blag the use of a lovely 50mm f1.4 lens from a colleague of mine, Martin Pool , and to take some photos wi…

Martin asks whether or not a malt loaf actually weights 222g. The answer is that the packet doesn’t seem to say, but that most people aren’t as vile as me and won’t eat an entire malt loaf in one sitt…

…let me count the ways. One day, someone had a bright idea, and maltloaf was born. No, I don’t mean maltloaf nor do I mean maltloaf but instead I mean maltloaf — true food of the gods. Yum!