Here in the UK the postcode data set (the mapping between postcode and physical location) isn't freely available. Thankfully the Free The Postcode project are creating a free postcode database. It's easy to help, you just tell them a postcode and its GPS coordinates via the web form.

You can …

I enjoyed reading about the lock, how interesting! When I was a kid, we vacationed in Northern Michigan and we always made a point to visit the Soo Locks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soo_locks)in the St. Mary's River. It amazed me the way Mother Nature was circumvented and …

My dad and I went to see Fussell's Balance Lock:

Okay, it's hard to make out from the photo, but the two deep bits on each side are where the canal boats would have gone up and down in the caissons.

Looking at this artefact of industrial archaeology prompted me …

Dave asked me what the French call a cul-de-sac. I think it's an impasse:

Actually, this is my last blog post from France. I'm feeling sad to be leaving, in fact I haven't got my head around the fact that the holiday is ending.

I've been doing a bit of …

It's not a great look, Tony. But it does have the distinction of being the most designed bit of your site so far!

What I like about favicons is that however much you refresh the page or purge your cache they never show up immediately. You get frustrated, check you've …

Here's the area around my gite on OpenStreetmap:

Over the next couple of days I'll try and fill in some of the missing bits. Actually, the scale might be a bit small to see any difference in a side-by-side comparison afterwards. I'll have to learn all the French words for …

I've done a little icon for Polifesto:

It's the favicon that the browser puts in the address bar, tabs etc. What do you think? It's okay, you can be honest.

Apart from bugs and odds and ends, Polifesto is done for the moment. Also, the example manifesto La Licorne is …

Great shoes =)

Fnarr, fnarr!!!

A view of the Loire, taken at Amboise.

There are huge corn fields. Walking in them you feel like you're in Signs.

Segueing neatly from Signs the film, to a sign for a public footpath. This sign means that to follow the blue path, if you're coming from …

The blur on the left is Meg running away after undoing my shoe lace.