There seems to be a great deal of official effort put into raising awareness and interest in the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections which will be held in Wiltshire on 15 November 2012, and yet I've not been terribly sure who the candidates are, what the job entails, and what each of the candida ....
Can you identify with any of these questions? Would you like to help to make things better? There's a need for improved co-ordination between transport providers, various user groups, local authorities, special interest groups - and the people who use the services too!
As a group which is working ....
It's quite possible to "self-teach" in Python, but to get the best from the language you need to appreciate its philosophy, the object oriented approach, and how the two work together, you really need something more formal. That way, you'll learn how to design, build, test and maintain code that pe ....
Last week, I found myself teaching a Multi-vendor Advanced Unix Data Tools and Techniques course as a guest presenter. The tools that the course 'majored' on are grep, sed, awk and Perl ... being an advanced course, some knowledge was assumed ahead of time, and so reference was made to other utiliti ....
These are personal views ... and should not be taken as representing the view of any organisation of which I'm a member!
Principles:
1. Anyone who wishes to drive to attend an activity at the Campus should be able to do so, and should be able to park within a distance that's reasonable for them to ....
We run a hotel. And because I teach training courses away, I stay at lots of other hotels too. That gives me an excellent opportunity to learn about how others do it ... to come back with ideas to adopt, and things which we should take care to avoid. Such feedback is valuable for us and for our t ....
Tickets now on sale!
The TransWilts Santa trip 2012 runs on Sunday, 2nd December. From Melksham station at 17:20 to Swindon, and back ... getting into Melksham at around 18:40. There's free parking at Melksham Station and in the approach road, and there will be plenty of spaces on the Sunday, e ....
The roads get busier ... and a journey of 50 miles that the AA route planner estimated at 80 minutes took me 110 this morning.
At current traffic levels, perhaps a bypass is needed for the Chippenham bypass?
As I drove towards Corston, in the middle of the countryside the traffic dr ....
All taken last Sunday ...
In the garden at Well House Manor
Over the fields south of Bowerhill
The corn is as high as a elephant's eye
Kennet and Avon, near Giles' wood
In the fields towards the canal ....
Is sending out 26 different emails in a day a Marathon?
After an eventful morning (read all about it on my facebook page), I travelled from home to set up the systems I'll be using for the course I'm giving the rest of the week. As they're not my machines, I felt I needed to make sure I knew ho ....