Geekery
Deja Vu!
I’ve swapped my WordPress theme back to DeepBlue, which you will probably recognise. Readers were reporting difficulties using IE6 on the old theme (which was only a placeholder, really) so I’ve switched things back and tested it on Firefox2, IE6 and IE7. Virtually no-one who visits here uses IE5 or below, so I didn’t test [...]
Developments in Degree Days
Readers may have missed this comment posted recently by Martin B, so I’ve reprinted it in full here:
Another belated follow up on your post (original post here): we just recently launched Degree Days.net, a free site for generating degree days: http://www.degreedays.net/
Since writing that article about problems with degree days, many of which are caused by [...]
A welcome end to peripatetic blogging
Firstly, apologies for the hourly del.icio.us posts - I think I’ve fixed the problem now and there should only be one a day now at most. We shall see…
Broadband services have resumed and I’m back on my old computer. After a year of being mothballed, it’s behaving remarkably well and I’m poking about [...]
Acronym spaghetti
As an industry, we love acronyms. For newcomers this may be confusing.
I toyed with the idea of a seperate glossary page with links to sites, but that seemed quite a heavy workload. So I compromised and added a Wordpress plug-in which automatically displays acronyms (if I have defined them) when you hover your mouse over [...]
Forum fever
There’s a new sustainability forum over at Building (the brainchild of Phil aka zerochampion and Micheal aka Breezeblock). A guest post from Che Wall kicked off the proceedings and there is a flurry of activity since, no doubt helped by the inducement of a free iPod Touch for the first 50 posters.
Phil has asked for [...]
Happy Blogday to me…
Is is really two years?
Almost 360 posts, over 70 regular subscribers, almost 8000 hits in the past year*, including over 250 to BREEAM is a means to an end post.
*Over 20% of visitors use Firefox as their browser, most of the rest use IE. Only 0.5% use Mac although one visitor found me using their Playstation [...]
Getting the inbox to zero…
Can it be true? Yes, I have the proof:
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I have managed to read all the items in my Google Reader. I’ve also got the number of feeds down to about 250.
A huge weight has been lifted from my mind. Of course, I’ll open it [...]
Del.icio.us - more than bookmarks
It’s fairly obvious that I’m a fan of del.icio.us. But did you know it can be more than a cool way to save bookmarks?
For instance, today I found Pellings using it as a sort of pseudo blog. No link back to it from their main site (and no RSS on their news page) but [...]
PVSYST 4.21 - software for PV design
This has been sitting in my del.icio.us inbox since April 2006. I can’t remember where I found the link originally.
PVSYST 4.21 is a PC software package for the study, sizing, simulation and data analysis of complete PV systems.
It is suitable for grid-connected, stand-alone, pumping and DC-grid (public transport) systems, and offers an extensive meteorological [...]
More RSS love…
I know I bang on about RSS on a weekly basis these days, but it really will be the future - honest. Great article here on how law companies in particular are embracing the technology to help cut down the clutter in email inboxes.
“It helps streamline existing forms of communication, so a company will see [...]
