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That’s right, Otis Redding famously sang the phrase and I’m gonna say it too. A change is gonna come. Ok, he was talking about segregation and civil rights in America...

That’s right, Otis Redding famously sang the phrase and I’m gonna say it too. A change is gonna come. Ok, he was talking about segregation and civil rights in America and I’m talking about changing my website, but it’s still a change nonetheless.

I’ve been pondering how best to utilise DanLynch.org and get the most out of it for a while. I want to see a lot more activity here and I don’t want the blog to be so separate from everything else. The reason for this separation is technical. The blog runs on WordPress but the rest of my site is built with Drupal. They’re both lovely Open Source PHP systems but it struck me recently I should really just use WordPress for the whole thing. All I’m doing in Drupal now is making some static pages around this blog anyway. WordPress can do that. So as we speak I’ve copied this blog onto some development web space and I’m reworking that version. Kicking the tires, checking the oil, and other such motoring metaphors. Continue reading →

Well, well, well, it’s been a while hasn’t it? A month or more has passed with little activity here. My apologies. Someone asked the other day if the RSS feed...

Well, well, well, it’s been a while hasn’t it? A month or more has passed with little activity here. My apologies. Someone asked the other day if the RSS feed on my blog was broken. I wish that were the answer, but lately it seems to be more a case of the person writing the content being broken, or perhaps distracted is a better term. Events have overtaken me in the last month and finding the time and energy to write about them has been hard. I aim to put that right today though and update you properly. I’m not going to go through everything from the last month in chronological order, that would take ages. Instead we’ll have Match Of The Day style extended highlights package. Alan Hansen should be along to criticize the defending at the end.

Podcasting has continued at pace and I’ll deal with each show in turn. There’s been plenty of episodes of Linux Outlaws in the last month. We’re closing in on 1 million downloads now since our time on Libsyn. That’s a crazy figure when you think about it, but actually I reckon we probably broke that some time ago. We ran the show for a while before joining Libsyn and there’s always people mirroring episodes on their own servers. None of that counts towards the grand total. So if anyone asks I just say “oh yeah, we’re well over a million downloads” and cross my fingers behind my back. Well, they don’t know… oh, unless they read this. Did I mention we’re over a million downloads? *ahem*.

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Time for another Weekly Rewind, number 104. It’s been pretty cold and icy in the UK over the last week and as usual we’ve all gone mad with panic. Trains...

Time for another Weekly Rewind, number 104. It’s been pretty cold and icy in the UK over the last week and as usual we’ve all gone mad with panic. Trains cancelled, warnings on the news to stay home. I can understand people taking precautions but other countries seem to manage perfectly well with much worse weather. They must laugh at our hysteria. Anyway, despite the weather I have a lot to report back on from the last 10 days. So let’s talk about it…

I’ll begin with Saturday Jan 28th where I appeared as a guest on the Alt3red Egos podcast. It’s a comics show and it was great to geek out talking about The Punisher, Watchmen and some of my other favourites. I would never call myself a comic book expert but I do have a small collection of graphic novels and I’m a bit of nerd on the sly. Or perhaps not on the sly, most people can probably see it a mile off. The show was a lot of fun and it was released the following week, you can grab it here.

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Welcome to another Weekly Rewind. This edition could either be considered overdue from last week or early for next, depending on whether you’re a glass half empty or full kind...

Welcome to another Weekly Rewind. This edition could either be considered overdue from last week or early for next, depending on whether you’re a glass half empty or full kind of person. I’ll let you decide. I was trying to think of witty things to link with the number 103 but I’m drawing a blank. The only two examples I can come up with are the Peugeot 103 and the Manchester radio station Key 103, neither of which seem particularly relevant. If you think of something I’ve missed stick it in a comment at the bottom. There’s no prizes, it’s just for fun. Maybe I’ll invent some arbitrary points system like have on Q.I and award you a million points. Anyway, let’s stop this nonsense and begin ploughing our way through the last 10 days or so…

I believe I last left things late on the afternoon of Monday January 16th, so let’s pick up there. I went on to broadcast Linux Outlaws with Fab in the evening. You’re probably tired of hearing me say this but it really does seem odd that we can be 247 episodes into this podcast now. As we close in on 250 episodes and 5 years in the business of pod, I don’t think either of us ever imagined this popularity or longevity could happen. The show was fun as always and I edited it later that week. You can grab it now as Episode 247 – “Poke Him With Your Pipe Old Boy”. Continue reading →

Hello again and welcome to another Weekly Rewind. Updates and tales from the interesting (or not so interesting) happenings in my life. We’re just over a week from the last...

Hello again and welcome to another Weekly Rewind. Updates and tales from the interesting (or not so interesting) happenings in my life. We’re just over a week from the last article so that’s not bad going. Only 1 day late. Let’s begin with Sunday night, January 8th…

I broadcast episode 69 of Rathole Radio and it went pretty well. There was some lively chat going on in the IRC and it seems the new website is holding up well. I need to fix a few things on there still but you know how these things are. You’re never 100% done, at least not if you’re a hopeless perfectionist like me. Continue reading →