Paul Marfell

I have now been to see the Life On-line exhibition at the Media Museum twice. The first time was to have a look at what it was saying about open source. I looked round the ground floor and the 7th floor and as a result blogged about Open Sauce. I was also putting together a […]

I am a fan of Open Source – I use Ubuntu Linux at home, Open Office, Firefox web browser, Thunderbird email client, I host websites that use MediaWiki, Joomla, WordPress and webtrees all written in PHP that runs on Apache web-servers. I have also written my own applications in PHP and provide access to it […]

Well I have read about it in the press but today was the first time that I have been asked to stop taking photos and move on. On the way into Bradford today I was walking towards Forster Square station when I heard Kestrels calling. Of course I had my binoculars with me, as you […]

Note that each photo is a link to the flickr stream, except the remote release which is a link to Amazon. 🙂 On Sunday morning I saw a Great Spotted Woodpecker from our bedroom window. Of course, by the time I got downstaires it had gone. I had things to be doing so I set […]

We probably all remember learning about the water cycle at school. How water would evaporate, how it would be then form clouds, rain down on us on the hills and flow down rivers to the sea. We have all seen clouds, rain, rivers and sea but it is only recently that I have watched clouds […]

My Facebook contacts may already be aware of a phone call I had today but there is no harm in making a more permanent record of it. I had a call from someone with a heavy Asian accent who gave his name as Edward. Sorry, even if an Edward had an Asian background, I am […]