I've just tried MOSM. It didn't seem slow in any way, perhaps your connection is causing the problems.

Also, what exactly is it for?

I've put up a web site for recording one's electricity meter readings. It's very basic at the moment. If you try it, please let me know how you find it. The idea is that you get the site up on your phone, and take it to the meter and enter …

I took the photo below when I went to the Co-op yesterday:

This is a much older building.

I took this today. It's an in-joke. How my colleagues will laugh.

A view just outside Lostwithiel.

I think this is the best photo.

I put the unmapped parts on Open Streetmap …

I've done some work on MOSM, the mobile web site for seeing a map of where you are. For fun I thought I'd use HTML5. It worked out okay on the browser you get with Android 2.2.

One thing I had to learn to get a web page working …

Went for a stroll this morning, and mapped a new road. Finished reading Herland, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Herland is a feminist utopia, an undiscovered realm populated entirely by women. It's easy to mock utopias, but they're much harder to write about than dystopias, so I admire anyone who has …

Loving the holiday posts. Impressed with the kindle battery life.

Went for a walk and put some extra bits on Open Streetmap. I took a snapshot of the map beforehand:

I've now added in things on the route from the cottage to the Co-op. There are quite a few unmapped areas, I'll add in some more tomorrow. I took a …

Alastair Reynolds is a consistently fine writer. I've recently finished Zima Blue, a book of Reynolds' short stories, and every one has been superb. Reynolds is becoming one of my most highly rated sci-fi authors. I've lent the book to Bob at work, who's a sci-fi fan, he's sure to …

The one plot flaw is that Atticus or Aunt Alexandra would have gone to the pageant. It was a big event in Maycomb, and their daughter / niece was in it. Also, Alexandra was in the same social circle as Mrs Merriweather the organizer of the pageant, and Alexandra wouldn't snub …

Agnes Grey is the first book I've read on my new Kindle. I got the book from Project Gutenberg so it is free in the sense of Free Culture and also free of charge.

It's a very buttoned-up book. Agnes is a bit of a goody goody. Puerile as I …