Category Archives: Software

Posting from Emacs

Thanks to Peter, I’m writing this post in Emacs as a test to see whether it works as I think. This is how I got it all working (a lot of this depends on the very wonderful emacs starter-kit ) … Continue reading

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Remove Line Breaks in OpenOffice Writer

Something I find myself doing quite a lot these days is starting to write a text in Emacs Org-Mode which I then expect ‘normal’ people to contribute to or view. (By ‘normal’ I mean the perfectly nice but less enlightened … Continue reading

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A Python script to get a list of placenames from latitude and longitude

Here’s a handy adaptation from Nicolas Laurance’s geoname.py script which takes a lat long and returns a list of place names and their code derived from the geonames database. #!/usr/bin/env python #-*- coding:utf-8 -*- # based on geoname.py by Nicolas … Continue reading

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Install an Android APK file

I asked Peter to write us an Android application for reporting our mood at periodic intervals to go with recording everywhere we go with a GPS and saving all our text messages. Eventually, we could geo-locate these moods and match … Continue reading

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My Method of collecting GPS tracks (to improve – this post and the method)

Answering an email today from William Heath about how to collect GPS data, I thought it a good idea to once and for all, write out what I do, as much for my own reference as for anyone else who … Continue reading

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