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Photos from Scotland

[wp_geo_map]Most of you know I was in Australia in February, and when I came back we took a short trip up to the Highlands to get away from it all. We stayed in Glasgow, then on Skye in a beautiful little hotel. On the way home, we got stuck in the worst weather Scotland has seen for years — heavy …

Elementary, my dear …

We “Northerners” (well, temporary) had a sunny, if cold, day today, the first in weeks if not months. Perfect weather, in fact, for an early morning walk ’round Regent’s Park, so I was up and out the door shortly after breakfast. I must admit, I felt bad for the birds swimming in the near-frozen …

Banksy

This is quite cool: possibly a piece of art from of “Banksy” right around the corner from us. We saw it on the way home last night, and of course this morning there were people standing around getting ready to paint over it. Whether you like Banksy’s work or not, it certainly provokes thought and …

udev rules

Not much here: Today I wrote a udev rule which creates a /dev/nokia770 device when the web tablet is plugged in. On Ubuntu Edgy, create a file named 50-nokia770.rule in /etc/udev/rules.d with the following content: BUS=="usb",SYSFS{product}=="Nokia 770",KERNEL=="sd?1",NAME="nokia770"