Lucid 3.3 available as a free download!!!

It looks like the folk over at Lucid have decided to go with the Freemium model by offering Lucid 3.3 as a free download, while their feature rich flagship 3.5 version is available as a fully supported paid download. I think this is a brilliant move on their part and will see much more widespread adoption of their software. For more information see their announcement.

Iona in the passage

Oh oh she’s starting to move!!!

Iona in the morning

She changes so much!!!

my wordle

In response to Rod Page’s post I’ve created a Wordle too. It actually says a lot about somebody!

Kehan's Wordle

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Image is and provided by http://wordle.net/.

Testing Flock

Flock is an interesting browser. It is based on Firefox, but has been optimised for social networking, and by default has plugins for numerous web2.0 websites. It also has a built in  blog editor (see  screenshot), which automatically acquired my screendump from my windows clipboard, and uploaded it to my flickr account for me.

There’s apparently a zotero plugin for flock, and I think it’s compatible with firefox extensions. Certainly an interesting tool to keep track of  – would reduce the need for numerous memory hogging firefox extensions which try to keep track of these things for you.

Blogged with Flock

Tags: blog, flock, browser, web

Kew bulletin online!

Wayhey – Kew Bulletin is now available through JSTOR so long as your institution has a subscription. Certainly a step forward – we should be able to get some decent citation metrics now!

Americans are NOT stupid – WITH SUBTITLES

Just watch it. Almost beats miss Teen South Carolina

He’s got a job

A very moving video – really makes you think

Glastonbury!

Here’s a test post from my phone at glastonbury. So far the pain has stayed away and not too much mud, but i’m sure this will all change.

Google Maps in Drupal for specimens

Thanks to Vince for his recent post on Google Maps Mashups. Does enabling cache speed up page loading for this? Or is it the javascript? – I had that problem when trying to overlay shapefiles onto google maps. The “proper” way to do this is to have a map server only serving up the points that are visible from a particular zoom and doing the clustering itself (and drupal doesn’t have this – yet).

Good to see CCK being useful. I read yesterday that Drupal 6 is going to have a proper database API which will perform all of the CRUD actions for you. This is going to be called the Schema API. Should be extremely useful for doing DB related stuff (you don’t have to type CREATE TABLE bunkum;
INSERT INTO bunkum;..... – you just tell your schema to add a record or data type or data structure.

17 Must-Have Free Apps for New Ubuntu Users

The Free Geek emailed me to let me know about his article about 17 Must-Have Free Apps for New Ubuntu Users – I have previously tried a number of the apps that he recommends and all of those are fantastic. Will be trying out some more when I get a chance.

Debunking myths about the “Third World” (Amazing graphics)

You really have to watch this video – says a lot about development. Part of a great series of talks at TED

It also has a call for access to publicly funded research data – this should be possible for everybody!

Distrowar – ubuntu vs. suse vs. red hat vs. fedora vs. debian

Courtesy of Google Trends

You tell me which one is Ubuntu? My guess is they’re taking over – thank goodness. Bug No 1 does seem to be in trouble tho as the overall searches for linux seem to be dropping.

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Scrub that last comment – microsoft searches are dropping as well.

Open Directory – Science: Biology

The Open Directory seems to know what’s going on – there are more Biology pages relating to Flora and Fauna than any other discipline.

* Flora and Fauna (12,035)
* Agriculture@ (2,390)
* Anatomy@ (44)
* Bioarchaeology@ (5)
* Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (1,266)
* Biogeochemistry@ (66)
* Bioinformatics (532)
* Biomechanics (43)
* Biophysics (78)
* Biotechnology (326)
* Botany (724)
* Cell Biology (348)
* Cryobiology (170)
* Developmental Biology (86)
* Ecology (929)
* Evolution (167)
* Exobiology@ (32)
* Food Science@ (225)
* Genetics (937)
* Genomics@ (33)
* Histology (17)
* Immunology (254)
* Medicine@ (11,224)

Ubuntu Studio – Let your Creativity Fly

OOh – this’ll get those creative juices flowing!
Ubuntu Studio – Let your Creativity Fly
Coming this April…

Ubuntu Studio. A multimedia creation derivative of Ubuntu.

Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast as well as professional.

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Migration

I have just migrated my very inactive blog from blogger and so far so good, although none of the pictures that I had posted to it have come through – oh well such is life .

Hope this blog will get a little more active but I’m not sure I have the attention span to maintain interest in it. We’ll see.