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| Web Stuff: Planning Applications for Parish Councils |
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 I have been on the Planning Review Committee of Baildon Parish Council since it's inception 2 years ago and for more than 12 months now we have been taking part in a 3 month trial (???) of the electronic notification of planning applications.
The electronic notification is no problem - the difficulty is preparing for meetings using the Public Access site provided by Bradford.
As a result I have created planningapps.co.uk that allows parish councils to maintain a list of applications and also facilitates the downloading and indexing of all the files.
The planningapps.co.uk website is currently being used by Haxby Town Council and you can see a list of the planning applications here.
planningapps.co.uk is also being used by Heworth to list their planning applications and you can see theirs here.
Hopefully other parish councils will start using it.
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| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
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Buy the new Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows from Amazon UK using this link.
Or use this link in the USA.
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It might be old hat to some of you but I have recently had a fright with Windows XP. I have an OEM version of it which means it can only be activated once.
I have recently had to replace the graphica card in my PC. The fan on it had packed up and the only coolers I could get were great big things that would not fit because it fouled the capacitors. At the same time I decided to start using the on-board network port instead of the network card.
Today I installed some software that pretends to be disk drives. It appears that Windows then decided I had changed too much and wanted to be activated again. Because I have an OEM version the activation failed and told me to get another license key - which would cost money.
After a bit of digging around on the internet I found out that XP collects information about your PC - CPU, Motherboard, RAM, Disks, Network card and will ask to be re-activated if too many things change.
Anyway, to cut the story short, I put the network card back in and it allowed me to activate it again with the old license key.
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Baildon Village now has its own web site. As a result of the Urban Village Initiative and the work of the Baildon Futures Partnership www.baildon.org.uk has come in to existence. I am both the Web Master and Host for the site.
The site has much of the information that I had tried to collect for the Baildon section of my own site but it has several volunteers who are prepared to put some work in. The biggest difference is that the Baildon Community Council are behind it and are prepared to publicise its existence. With the Community Council owning the site it gives it an air of "respectability".
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I have created a Baildon related Google Map section. Categories include Baildon Pubs, Baildon restaurants, Baildon takeaways, Baildon places of historical interest, Baildon Schools etc.
Visitors can add their own categories and markers.
I have now added a Directions tab to each marker. In there it is possible to enter a postcode and obtain directions from the postcade location to the location of the marker. The route is also plotted on a map.
The detail of the satellite image is fantastic.
Try them
Read more.. Create your own using the example from the downloads section. The routine in the downloads section is out of date. Let me know and I will send you an new version.
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InterNetwork Solutions also offer domain name registration, internet web hosting, email services and webmail.
We serve the Leeds, Bradford, Guiseley, Shipley, Ilkley, Otley, Harrogate and wider Yorkshire area.
Visit our Website for more information.
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Opera is now free.With the latest version of Opera (8.5 released Oct 2005) the advertising has been removed. I have downloaded it and over the next few weeks I will be trying it out and comparing it with Firefox.
Both are good browsers and I suggest that Internet Explorer users download one of them and start using it.
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| 2GB GMail accounts for free! |
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Do you want 2GB of online email capacity? Hotmail, Excite, Yahoo etc might be OK for general use but if you are serious about web based email then GMail is a good solution.
I have 50 Google GMail accounts invitations to give away. Let me know via feedback, email or private message if you would like one. Have a look at the GMaill site to help you decide.
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Get yourself the Firefox web browser.
I still have to move some of my site content so that it is available in this newer system.
One of the pages I used to have included a bit about web browsers.
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I have recently had an email from Walter S. Robert asking me to link to KeyWord Mapping.
I have had a look at the site. It is intending to become a Keyword map of the whole internet. Quite an ambitious plan!
I believe that by following their link you create a map of related topics and web sites based on submitted websites and their keywords.
Why not give it a try and browse the Keyword Map of Marfell.me.uk
Their suggested keywords for my site were "potted meat" (sic) and "Baildon". I think the process is automatic because I can't see a person deciding that a keyword for my site should be "potted meat"
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