I’ve been using Adobe Illustrator for perhaps 16 years. It’s been a trusty workhorse for me. My old version of Illustrator stopped running well on new versions of MacOS – so I had to upgrade and move to their subscription model. Since then, I’ve been trying to find another program to use. I hated … Read more
I thought it might be worth putting up my notes of a two-day canoe and camping trip that I did with some friends just south of Oxford. Our kids are between 6 and 8. They totally loved it. The overall plan is to go from Clifton Hampden to Shillingford. Day 1 – Clifton Hampden to … Read more
Hyperdock (a windows manager for MacOS) has stopped working. Hyperdock has been broken since late 2018. Everyone tries removing, adding it again, deleting the preference, disabling and reenabling it. So, it seems the developers have given up. The best alternative to Hyperdock that I’ve found is Magnet which cost about £0.99 – so hardly anything … Read more
I can’t stand the new WordPress editor. It’s too trying to be simple while doing auto-magical stupid things. Anyhow, you can install the old WordPress editor by as a plugin. Click Plugins Search for “Classic Editor” Add and activate Be aware the old editor adds mark up to the posts that it creates like so: … Read more
I’ve been trying to find places to wild camp in the Brecon Beacons. I found this lovely wild camping blog post which was really inspiring. There are a number of good places to wild camp on the Black Mountain which is on the west side of the Brecon Beacons. The Black Mountains are quite wild … Read more
Here are the notes for my first overnight canoeing trip down the Thames. I thought it might be useful for someone else doing a similar trip. Day 1: Bablock Hythe To Pinkhill Campsite – 3.7km We launched on the east side of the river opposite the Ferryman Inn at Bablock Hythe (51.735252, -1.371328). It took … Read more
Small little post. I’ve just upgraded to iOS 12. I found that my Google Photos didn’t see any of the new photos that I had taken since the upgrade. Basically, the only solution for me was to uninstall Google Photos and then reinstall it. Then my photos immediately appear in Google Photos and started getting … Read more
I’ve started to research campsites which I can visit with a canoe or kayak along the Thames. I haven’t found a good website with a map and list. I thought it might interest other people and so I’m putting it on this blog. I’ve started a new category called microadventures. I’m based in Oxford and … Read more
I have an inflatable canoe which I love to take the kids out on. There doesn’t seem to be very much information on locations to canoe in Oxford. Most of the places to kayak around Oxford are commercial -i.e. kayaks for hire etc… So if you want to use your own boat it is hard … Read more
I have just installed Snap on Ubuntu 14.04 using “sudo apt-get install snap”. When I tried to install a snap, I got this error message: ZOE ERROR (from /usr/lib/snap/snap): error opening parameter fileZOE library version 2006-07-28 It turns out the you also need to install snapd. sudo apt-get install snapd Now it should just work.