james holden

On The Move Again

Well, it’s official – I’m leaving Plusnet for a new job in Leeds. I’ll be very sad to go because PlusNet is a most excellent place to work. It’s been a privilege to work with such a talented bunch of people in just about the only broadband ISP in the market that actually has a [...]

Now Playing

I’ve rigged up a quick hack to put what song I currently have playing on XMMS at the bottom of every page on this site, using the XMMS songchange plugin and a bit of ssh trickery.

Hardware Misery… Again!

The hard disk in my laptop failed again yesterday :-( Fortunately it’s still under warranty, so I’ll have to dig out the receipt and go and swap it.
The good news is that I was mostly able to recover my data. Here’s how:

Boot Knoppix in failsafe mode. Flip back to a text console using Ctrl+Alt+F1.
Get the [...]

Found A House!

After taking the day off yesterday and looking at lots and lots and lots and lots of potential ones, we found a new house!

DVD Authoring Talk

The slides from my DVD authoring talk are up. You can download them in Openoffice.org through this link.

WYLUG DVD Authoring Talk

I’m doing a talk tomorrow night at WYLUG, the West Yorkshire Linux User Group, on DVD authoring under Linux. It’s at 7:00pm at the University of Leeds school of computing. I’ll be covering how DVD menus are structured and what tools exist on Linux to produce them. There will be some notes posted up here [...]

Weekend

I didn’t end up getting round to the PVR box this weekend, because we wend to Harewood House instead, which is only a 15 minute drive away from here. I took a few snaps with my camera phone which are on the site now.

Digital Video Goodness

At last I’ve finally got round to doing somehting with the video I shot at some friends of ours wedding in France last year. I’ve been using Kino on Linux to capture the video and I’m just recompressing the unedited footage to DVD format so I can play it back later downstairs. The ultimate aim [...]

Joystick Hunt

Having tracked down a copy of Chuckie Egg for by old BBC B to relive some of the old memories, I’m now after a joystick for it. It seems that PC joysticks are a little too different to just make a passive adapter. Time to hit eBay.

Moved to Wordpress

I’ve moved over to Wordpress as a blogging tool. This has a lot more features than the old version of b2 that I was using. The old b2 blog is still available here. I’ll come up with a more individual theme soon.