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Rouge Tor, (41 Days Ago)

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Nuclear Bunker, near Salcombe, (17 Days Ago)

by Dave Bellamy

Tors visited:

242 Visited

84 Remaining

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Tor Fly-bys
Sunday 08 January 2012, 20:45
I'm quite pleased with this one. I've been reading Google's KML reference recently, and it occurred to me that it would be pretty neat of there was a link on each Tor Details page here that when clicked, would open Google Earth, fly you tor the tor in question, then fly you around it. I've just added a link to the tor page, but check this one of Yes Tor out: Click

Another Tor Visiting Milestone
Tuesday 27 December 2011, 18:41
I've now visited all of the extreme tors on the Moor, not just the most Northery/Easterly/Southerly/Westerly ones, but the highest and the most isolated too. This follows two visits up to Okehampton to tick off Ashbury Tor last weekend, and Cleave Tor today. There is nothing to call between these two as the most northerly tor. The GPS track for both shows a maximum northing of 94070. One of them must be slightly further north than the other, but not by any amount that I can be bothered to measure!

	Most Northerly: Ashbury Tor	or Cleave Tor
Most Westerly: Brent Tor	Highest: Yes Tor	Most Isolated: Fur Tor	Most Easterly: Bot Tor
Most Southerly: Western Beacon

Dartmoor Railway Again
Sunday 20 November 2011, 22:08
Yesterday I cycled the full route of the Dartmoor Railway again, from Princetown all the way to Plymouth. I had done it before, but this time I thought I would take a little more time over it and explore a bit more. I still didn't find the London Bridge Corbels, but the viaducts in the Plym Valley are great. I had my GPS with me this time too, so route below:

Click here for the full sized map and profile.

More site improvements
Tuesday 25 October 2011, 21:49
Development has been slow on the site recently, but yesterday I thought it would be a good idea to revamp the search page in the Views section. Previously it took your search keywords, rummaged through the database and presented a rather boring vertical column of photos and descriptions. I've just recoded the page so that now it gives you an OS map with pins at the photo locations, and a horizontal row with the corresponding photos underneath. Ideally, when you click on a pin, the corresponding photo will be highlighted, but that's for another night. I had to dust off my ASP hat for this. I did plan on recoding the whole thing in PHP, but it works well, so I left it in ASP.

Nice Comment on a Photo
Thursday 08 September 2011, 22:45
Back in December I went for a walk near Burrator, the main objective being to bag Sheeps Tor and a couple of others on the slopes. Once I had done that and made it back down to the road that runs around Burrator Reservoir, I stumbled across this memorial:

Yesterday that photo received a comment by the man who placed that memorial there in 1994 after the death of his wife. Unfortunately he had to fight South West Water for permission to do that (why on Earth would they refuse, several times?), but I'm glad he succeeded, and I'm honestly quite humbled that he took the time to stumble upon my photo and comment on it.

Bristol Balloon Festival
Sunday 14 August 2011, 22:21
I thought I would introduce Lucy to an airshow this afternoon, but as she is terrified of loud noises, I thought I would do it gently and headed up to Bristol for the final mass balloon ascent of this year's festival. Sadly, despite the weather being great, they decided it was too windy (in fairness it probably was), so no balloons went up. The Red arrows did show up though, so the quiet intoduction I had planned ended up being not so quiet. After a brief spell in the car with her ear defenders on and her hands clamped firmly over those, she eventually came out and really enjoyed them.

Kitty Tor Walk
Sunday 07 August 2011, 23:25
Together with Dan, Ilze, Julia, Lawrence and Mike, I walked 8.5 miles and visited 10 tors today. We walked from Lydford to Kitty Tor via the Rattlebrook tramway and back via Bleak House and Great Links Tor. Considering the weather forecast we were very lucky to get away with only two brief but intense downpours. Route below:

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New CAD Tool
Thursday 14 July 2011, 19:42
It's been a while since I've done any serious development on the site. The extreme stress of trying to find a new job obviously took precedence, but now that I've been happily employed at Paul Carpenter Associates for 6 weeks, it's time to relax a bit and start writing code again.
So I've just sat down and written a little AutoLisp routine for AutoCAD and Civil3D that will take any point you click in a drawing, and providing it gives a valid OS grid reference, it will open my mapping site at the exact point you clicked. Very handy, especially as my mapping site will link you onwards to many different mapping providers, geolocated photos, and much more. Download it here

Finally… Some Decent Thunder and Lightning
Friday 06 May 2011, 22:45
It's been two and a half years since I bought my DSLR, and high on list of photos to take was a photo of some lightning. Finally, that happened tonight:

Ubuntu 11.04 Upgrade
Sunday 01 May 2011, 00:23
The laptop originally came with Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon installed, so yesterday's upgrade to 11.04 Natty Narwhal makes this the 7th upgrade I've done in three years. This one didn't go entirely to plan, much like the upgrade to Maverick, so I was forced to format/reinstall. Natty comes with the biggest and most controversial change to Ubuntu ever… the Gnome desktop environment has been dropped in favour of Unity:

It takes a lot of getting used to, but I like it.

Archived Entries...

Interview
Monday 04 April 2011, 18:47

I was unable to record my TV appearence last week, other than on my Virign Media box, which makes it... Show

Kingsteignton Weather on TV
Thursday 31 March 2011, 20:44

I was interviewed by ITV Weather Man Bob Crampton last month, and today was my moment in the spotlig... Show

A Long Walk on the Moor Today
Sunday 27 February 2011, 23:16

I went out today with my friends Dan, Mike and Ilze for a 9 mile walk to some of the more remote par... Show

Another Mapping Improvement
Wednesday 23 February 2011, 22:56

I've just updated the full page OS map so that the copyable information in the popup box now inc... Show

GPX Profile again
Sunday 20 February 2011, 23:38

It's been a long time since I've fiddled with the code for the GPX profiles. When I original... Show

More Mapping Improvements
Wednesday 02 February 2011, 00:15

I added a feature to the full page OS Map this evening. It allows you to click on any point, then it... Show

Not Quite…
Saturday 29 January 2011, 19:03

I tempted fate with the last update, and I'm probably doing it again with this one! I forgot to ... Show

Map Zooming Fixed
Saturday 29 January 2011, 18:31

Further to the previous post, the zooming is now fixed on the full page OS Map. I forgot that the va... Show

Also…
Saturday 29 January 2011, 00:50

Further to the entry below… it also means that clicking on the "View photo locations" link no ... Show

Another Map Enhancement
Saturday 29 January 2011, 00:39

I've been playing with the OS maps again over the last couple of days. For a while I've been... Show

200 Tors
Saturday 22 January 2011, 19:06

I reached the 200th Dartmoor Tor earlier this afternoon. The 200th one was Cuckoo Rock The route I t... Show

Interactive Independent Climate Change Project
Saturday 25 December 2010, 19:49

I was contacted back in March by the IICCP to see if I wanted to participate in their climate change... Show

Snow Causes Traffic Chaos
Monday 20 December 2010, 09:47

I decided that risking my life to get into work this morning just wasn't worthwhile. Every possi... Show

Animated Tor Map
Tuesday 14 December 2010, 17:42

I spent an hour or two this afternoon writing a PHP script that generates an animated gif file showi... Show

Cold
Tuesday 07 December 2010, 11:40

It's cold at the moment here at Kingsteignton Weather HQ. In fact, we set a new record at 5:14 t... Show

Historical Mapping
Thursday 18 November 2010, 13:47

I recently stumbled across the Historical Mapping API from the National Library of Scotland. They of... Show

More PHP Conversion
Wednesday 17 November 2010, 19:17

Quite a few months ago now, I decided to recode the photo viewing page in PHP rather than the clunky... Show

Facebook API
Sunday 31 October 2010, 19:12

I've been messing about with the Facebook API this evening, and as a result I've added a "Li... Show

Android and Java Programming
Tuesday 26 October 2010, 23:48

I spent a while this evening getting to grips with programming for my Android phone using Java under... Show

Ubuntu 10.10
Monday 11 October 2010, 00:20

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat was released earlier today, so I just upgraded my laptop. The process ... Show

Another Milestone…
Sunday 03 October 2010, 21:49

I uploaded the 1000th photo to the site today. The actual photo is this one, taken at Scorhill Tor y... Show

Last FM Audioscrobbling
Wednesday 29 September 2010, 00:27

Continuing on from the post below, I've just discovered that the Androku app supports Last FM sc... Show

Soundbridge/Android… At Last
Tuesday 28 September 2010, 21:31

I have been checking the Android Market fairly regularly for apps that can control my 2 Soundbridges... Show

Phone fixed
Thursday 26 August 2010, 23:52

I got my phone back on Tuesday after it had been away for a week getting its screen replaced. What a... Show

Android 2.1
Friday 06 August 2010, 19:33

After a wait that seemed as though it would be endless, the first part of the update from Android 1.... Show

Kingsteignton Weather in the News
Friday 06 August 2010, 19:27

Kingsteignton Weather hit the headlines today, quite literally, as I appeared on the front page of t... Show

Maps Working Again
Monday 02 August 2010, 11:57

I fixed the maps that had stopped working due to the Ordnance Survey's upgrade. What's more,... Show

Some Maps Not Working
Monday 02 August 2010, 09:04

The Ordnance Survey upgraded their API yesterday, and as a result some of the maps used on this site... Show

More Iridium Flare stuff
Tuesday 20 July 2010, 20:38

I have been thinking about what I wrote a couple of weeks ago and decided to give it a go anyway. I&... Show

Chip…
Sunday 18 July 2010, 21:47

Sad and unexpected news today, our eleven year old cat Chip was put to sleep at the vet's this e... Show

Calendar
Wednesday 07 July 2010, 10:37

The Iridium Flare and ISS calendar should be available here:CalendarI'll sort out a proper link ... Show

Iridium Flare Calendar
Tuesday 06 July 2010, 22:56

This evening I adapted the Iridium Flare iCal generating php file to also incorporate ISS Passes, ag... Show

Pointless Blog Post
Saturday 03 July 2010, 07:49

Not much to add, but I'm up early waiting for the breakfast place to open, blogging from my tent... Show

Iridium Flares
Friday 02 July 2010, 00:19

Last night I managed to link my Twitter account to my Google Calendar account, so that my phone woul... Show

Mobile Internet
Sunday 27 June 2010, 22:56

In preparation for next week's camping trip, I thought I would try and get my Ubuntu 10.04 lapto... Show

Weather Site Up and Running Again
Tuesday 15 June 2010, 21:33

I was away for the weekend for my brother Simon's stag do in Brighton, and while I was gone we h... Show

I videoed my trip to work
Tuesday 11 May 2010, 20:33

No particular reason why, I just thought it would look cool sped up and put to some music. Here it i... Show

Tors Page Again
Sunday 02 May 2010, 22:58

A thought occurred to me this afternoon as I was walking back to the car from Black Dunghill. As a c... Show

Fixed!
Thursday 29 April 2010, 22:44

Laptop successfully revived and running Ubuntu 10.04 nicely.... Show

Ubuntu Upgrade Gone Wrong
Thursday 29 April 2010, 21:40

Ubuntu 10.04LTS was released at about 6 o'clock this evening and I immediately decided to upgrad... Show

New Tors Page…
Friday 23 April 2010, 00:03

When I first put the Tors section together two and a half years ago, I was pretty new to scripting a... Show

New Tent
Thursday 22 April 2010, 23:54

We bought a new tent last week for our camping trip in July, and as it was a nice evening we decided... Show

A Couple of Great Websites
Tuesday 20 April 2010, 22:10

I've found a couple of great websites during the last week that I'm going to add to the Link... Show

Huge Walk Yesterday
Sunday 11 April 2010, 23:25

Together with 5 other friends, yesterday I walked from Postbridge to Fur Tor and Cut Hill. It was on... Show

Walk Planned For This Saturday
Tuesday 06 April 2010, 21:11

I'm planning a walk for a few mates this weekend, and one of them asked me this afternoon if I h... Show

Halfway
Sunday 28 March 2010, 20:41

I reached the halfway point yesterday. I went up to the moor and bagged another 5 tors, taking me up... Show

Hangingstone Hill
Sunday 21 March 2010, 22:19

I visited Hangingstone Hill today with my friend Dan. We had planned on visiting 5 tors today to tak... Show

More Street View
Saturday 13 March 2010, 19:45

I recreated the Tors Near Car Park page and it now works well enough for me to have linked it from t... Show

Street View Again
Friday 12 March 2010, 22:20

After a couple of hours of coding, I've got it working, but with mixed results. the bad news is ... Show

Google Street View
Friday 12 March 2010, 20:29

Google enabled Street View for the whole of the UK yesterday, and I immediately thought that using i... Show

Nearly half way…
Saturday 06 March 2010, 22:24

Today's walk took me up to 147 tors visited, with 157 remaining. Only 5 more until I'm at th... Show

New Car
Thursday 18 February 2010, 19:29

I picked up my new car today. Everything went pretty smoothly until I went to fill it up and noticed... Show

New phone, new car
Tuesday 16 February 2010, 23:32

Well, I got my new HTC Hero today, and it's freaking fantastic. I'm actually writing this up... Show

New Phone
Saturday 13 February 2010, 22:18

My current mobile phone contract enters its last month tomorrow, so I'm going to ring up cancel ... Show

Music Server Revived
Thursday 11 February 2010, 22:30

After 4 months and 25 days I have finally revived my music server from the dead. I went out tonight ... Show

How long?
Thursday 28 January 2010, 00:26

I can't quite believe how long I've left it since my last blog. I've been tied up with l... Show

Stolen Photos…
Monday 07 December 2009, 19:21

I did receive a response to my email saying that the photos had been used inadvertently and that the... Show

Flying Lesson
Sunday 06 December 2009, 17:20

I had my flying lesson this morning. The guys at South West Aviation were very accommodating and let... Show

Fantasy Formula 1
Friday 04 December 2009, 22:45

After a frantic week of coding, in PHP which is still fairly new to me, I think I've got the Fan... Show

People are stealing my photos…
Tuesday 01 December 2009, 21:48

I was idly searching the web this evening and I found that someone has stolen 4 of my Dartmoor Tor p... Show

Fantasy Formula 1
Tuesday 24 November 2009, 22:21

I've been toying with the idea of setting up a Fantasy Formula 1 game for a few mates recently, ... Show

Trip to the North West
Saturday 14 November 2009, 00:18

Just to add to one below: that M62 profile was recorded during my recent 17 hour foray to Manchester... Show

More Linux Breakthroughs
Saturday 14 November 2009, 00:08

I ticked off another step on the way to removing Microsoft Windows from my house this evening. I'... Show

PC Better Than Ever
Friday 06 November 2009, 22:08

After the last update, I managed to get all the backed up data back onto the PC, although not all of... Show

PC Revived from the Dead
Tuesday 03 November 2009, 23:21

The main PC succumbed to the Sasser worm the other week, and I've just gotten round to fixing it... Show

Driving License Renewal
Monday 02 November 2009, 19:44

Who the hell knew that you had to renew your photo driving license every ten years? Not me, so I was... Show

Automatic Route Profiles…
Thursday 08 October 2009, 22:13

Another couple of evenings of coding well spent. I've been playing around with PHP and XML, tryi... Show

Birthday present…
Thursday 01 October 2009, 17:47

It's my 32nd birthday today and Mel and Lucy have bought me a flying lesson! 30 minutes, just me... Show

Dead Hard Disk
Friday 18 September 2009, 01:00

Well after about 3 and a half years the external hard disk I bought to store all my music and run th... Show

New Car Back at the Dealer
Wednesday 16 September 2009, 18:17

I took the new car back to the Vauxhall dealer today to get a couple of things looked at. The tailga... Show

Another 6 Tors
Monday 14 September 2009, 17:56

I went out yesterday afternoon and ticked another 6 tors and 2 trig points off the list. That brings... Show

Shuttle and ISS…
Wednesday 09 September 2009, 21:45

I managed to capture both the space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station in a photo... Show

GPS Tracks
Friday 04 September 2009, 20:33

I couldn't think of anything clever to do with them yet, so for now I've just set up a page ... Show

Photo Markers added…
Friday 04 September 2009, 17:13

Well that didn't take long. The solution dawned on me earlier today. I moved all the ASP/Javascr... Show

Route Maps
Thursday 03 September 2009, 22:03

I thought I would try and add some of my GPS route traces onto the OS maps tonight. I managed to do ... Show

Dartmoor Discussion Forum
Sunday 23 August 2009, 23:05

Spurred on by the uptake of the South Devon Weather discussion forum, I started a new one tonight al... Show

More Tors…
Saturday 22 August 2009, 21:24

I ticked another 5 tors off the list today. I loaded my bike into the new Zafira and headed up to Pr... Show

New Car Part III
Friday 21 August 2009, 17:48

We picked up our new car this lunchtime, which means, for better or worse, I'm no longer a BMW d... Show

New Car Part II
Saturday 15 August 2009, 18:28

I saved the photos from the Vauxhall Network Q site before they take them down: Bit of a ... Show

New Car!
Friday 14 August 2009, 19:18

I just bought a new car! The BMW was just too impractical and starting to get a little rough around ... Show

Weather Forum…
Friday 07 August 2009, 00:12

For a while now I've been toying with the idea of getting all the local weather station operator... Show

Weather site disaster…
Wednesday 05 August 2009, 19:24

I tempted fate with yesterday's post. For pretty much the whole of today, Kingsteignton Weather ... Show

Weather site getting popular…
Tuesday 04 August 2009, 21:11

I've noticed recently that my Kingsteignton Weather site has been getting a few hits from the we... Show

Improved Grid Square Coverage Map
Wednesday 29 July 2009, 19:03

A while ago I managed to figure out how to do a map of the south west and add red dots to that image... Show

Rippon Tor again.
Tuesday 28 July 2009, 00:05

I first went up Rippon Tor on May 17th 2007, and back then I was quite taken aback by the view. Well... Show

SoundBridge Revived…
Thursday 23 July 2009, 18:55

One of my SoundBridges died about 3 weeks ago, and I was pretty gutted about it. It was my oldest on... Show

Web Interface for adding content…
Tuesday 21 July 2009, 23:29

Ever since I moved this site over to being database driven 3 or 4 years ago, adding content to it li... Show

Yeovilton Photos Uploaded
Monday 13 July 2009, 23:55

I sorted through all 901 photos and came up with 30 that I'm really happy with. See them all on ... Show

Yeovilton again
Sunday 12 July 2009, 23:40

Mid July means that it's time for Yeovilton again. Pete and I drove up to Ilchester and then cyc... Show

Popup Maps Working
Monday 29 June 2009, 23:48

I got the popup maps mentioned in the last post up and running. It wasn't too hard in the end, a... Show

New Graph on Stats Page
Saturday 27 June 2009, 22:55

I added a new graph to the Views Stats page this evening that shows the number of photos against dis... Show

More OS Map Enhancements
Thursday 18 June 2009, 22:43

Building on Tuesday's efforts, I've polished off the popup box that displays the coordinates... Show

OS Map Enhancements
Tuesday 16 June 2009, 22:59

I've been thinking about enhancing the OS maps for a while now, and the most pressing thing on t... Show

More Fun with a Plasma Ball
Thursday 11 June 2009, 23:15

I had the plasma ball and the camera out again tonight. After Tuesday's efforts, I had read that... Show

Plasma Ball
Wednesday 10 June 2009, 18:04

I've been entertaining Lucy with a small USB powered plasma ball recently, and while messing aro... Show

Bike Ride to Redlake
Saturday 06 June 2009, 18:27

Just over a year ago I stumbled across the disused Redlake tramway while walking up to Hangershell R... Show

Fire Brigade
Thursday 04 June 2009, 00:17

We had the Fire Brigade round tonight. Mel was expecting them, I wasn't. I have to say that I wa... Show

New Table Saw
Monday 04 May 2009, 23:28

I bought a new table saw today. My old one lasted about 8 years, and put in some pretty decent servi... Show

Ubuntu 9.04
Friday 01 May 2009, 17:48

Well, I got the upgrade itch again last night, so despite having said below that I would wait a week... Show

Ubuntu 8.10
Wednesday 29 April 2009, 17:31

I upgraded the OS on my laptop yesterday evening from Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" to 8.10 &q... Show

Out on the moors again
Saturday 18 April 2009, 20:48

After what must be a record 8 weeks of not visiting a tor I finally got out on the moor again this m... Show

Disaster strikes
Sunday 05 April 2009, 20:45

I woke up yesterday morning to find water leaking into our ensuite shower. This looked pretty ominou... Show

Star Trail II
Thursday 19 March 2009, 22:40

I went up to Haytor for an hour this evening and got another star trail photo. It came out pretty we... Show

STS-119
Monday 16 March 2009, 00:13

I have just been stood out in my garden waiting for Discovery to go overhead. I had my camera set up... Show

Star Trail Photo
Sunday 15 March 2009, 22:28

I finally got round to taking a star trail photo(Click the photo for a larger version):Also, I made ... Show

New Phone
Saturday 14 March 2009, 21:07

I went down to the O2 shop in Newton Abbot today to get my annual upgrade on my contract handset. I ... Show

Grid Reference Added to Maps
Tuesday 10 March 2009, 21:11

Real time grid references added to the full page OS map. Again, I borrowed a javascript module from ... Show

Realtime Coordinate Display Added to Maps
Tuesday 10 March 2009, 19:54

Done it! I still need to make it show OS grid reference rather than easting and northing, but I will... Show

Search Box Added to Maps
Tuesday 10 March 2009, 18:47

I added a placename search function to the full page OS map this evening. The code is actually legit... Show

OS Maps
Saturday 07 March 2009, 19:20

I just added a page that displays a full-page, dragable OS map. My tilecount rarely exceeds 1% of wh... Show

Broken washing machine
Saturday 07 March 2009, 16:11

Our washing machine has been playing up for ages, and today it managed to annoy me to the point of d... Show

New Hard Drive
Thursday 12 February 2009, 20:50

I've seen recently that Tesco are selling cheap Maxtor external hard drives, so earlier this eve... Show

Venus…
Wednesday 11 February 2009, 19:22

This evening started out clear with a nice view of the stars from the back garden, so I thought I... Show

Selectable On This Day page II
Monday 02 February 2009, 18:44

The weather graphs are now working properly on the test version of the On This Day page (linked belo... Show

Selectable On This Day page
Monday 02 February 2009, 00:22

I have just spent hours fiddling with a test version of the On This Day page, trying to make it so t... Show

Dartmoor Road Closure
Tuesday 27 January 2009, 21:02

I just had an email from a fellow Dartmoor fan about the proposed closure of the military loop road ... Show

Iridium Flare
Wednesday 07 January 2009, 18:30

I took a photo of an Iridium Flare this evening:This is the right hand solar panel of the Iridium 13... Show

Google Street View Cars
Tuesday 30 December 2008, 15:16

I spotted two Google Street View cars over the last few days. Actually, it's probably the same c... Show

More Stats
Thursday 25 December 2008, 20:56

I've been messing with the View Stats page again. I wanted a way to see a few more than just the... Show

Average Rainfall Data
Tuesday 16 December 2008, 18:52

I received an email today from another Kingsteignton resident who has been recording rainfall data s... Show

Conflicting code
Sunday 14 December 2008, 20:52

I added the first new photos since I put the rating system in place today and it broke the site. Bec... Show

Moon Photo
Wednesday 10 December 2008, 20:58

I decided that after last night's good luck with the photography, I would brave the cold again a... Show

Night Photography
Tuesday 09 December 2008, 21:37

I've been out in the (freezing cold) back garden with my Sony Alpha 200 DSLR camera fiddling wit... Show

Photo Rating added
Tuesday 02 December 2008, 18:45

I added the ability for visitors to rate photos in the Views section tonight. As with the commenting... Show

100 Tors Reached
Saturday 29 November 2008, 17:55

I reached 100 Tors today! The 100th was Leather Tor, and the 99th was Peek Hill. I'd neglected t... Show

More graphs
Tuesday 25 November 2008, 22:09

I'm really getting into PHP. And I know how geeky that sounds, but what's worse is the produ... Show

1 year of tor visiting
Saturday 15 November 2008, 21:02

Today marks exactly 1 year since I decided to start visiting every tor on Dartmoor. And seeing that ... Show

Top 5 upgrades to View stats page
Tuesday 11 November 2008, 22:01

I'd noticed that my photo from Rippon Tor looking down the Teign Estuary is far and away the mos... Show

Anemometer stops working
Saturday 08 November 2008, 18:50

I noticed this morning that my anemometer wasn't turning, despite the howling gale. I went out a... Show

Furthest view from house 2
Sunday 02 November 2008, 14:27

Back in June I posted here about the furthest point I could see from my living room window. Back the... Show

Random Photo Code
Saturday 01 November 2008, 23:28

A while ago I coded up an asp page that served up a random photo from the database. I'd been try... Show

Map Corrected
Saturday 01 November 2008, 11:41

The post below doesn't make much sense now because I've subsequently altered the background ... Show

Dynamic Progress Map
Thursday 30 October 2008, 23:15

I had a big breakthrough with the site tonight. For ages I've been trying to get a dynamically c... Show

Database Fettling
Saturday 25 October 2008, 17:29

I made a change in the code of the "In this month" page today. As it extracts data from tw... Show

Panoramas
Tuesday 21 October 2008, 20:02

I found another few photos that match up, so I created another panorama out of them. They are actual... Show

Brent Tor
Tuesday 14 October 2008, 21:22

I went across the moor to Brent Tor on Sunday and took a load of photos from the summit, some of whi... Show

Scripting 8
Tuesday 07 October 2008, 17:34

After a bit of frustration due to some impossibly obscure formatting errors, I finally managed to ge... Show

Scripting 7
Sunday 05 October 2008, 01:13

I made a pretty major change to this front page tonight, which will become apparent if you scroll do... Show

Out on the Moors Again
Sunday 28 September 2008, 20:41

After a five week hiatus in tor visiting, mainly due to the appalling weather we've had, a relat... Show

Ripon Tor
Tuesday 16 September 2008, 21:01

After reading Tim Sandles' excellent Legendary Dartmoor pages, I stumbled upon a 19th Century qu... Show

flickr
Saturday 13 September 2008, 11:49

The arrival of my new camera has prompted me to start uploading photos to my flickr account. They... Show

Camera Arrives
Thursday 11 September 2008, 22:51

Yay, my new camera arrived today! Bad news… no lens in the box. According to the Amazon site i... Show

Stats Page 2
Tuesday 09 September 2008, 19:14

More messing around with the stats page and the database that shows visits to the View Photos. The s... Show

New Camera
Sunday 07 September 2008, 18:28

With my birthday only 3 weeks away, I've been thinking about what to buy myself, and top of the ... Show

Scripting 6
Saturday 06 September 2008, 22:27

Something that has been playing on my mind recently is that the "In this month" page was j... Show

Ubuntu Upgrade
Friday 05 September 2008, 20:39

I finally got around to upgrading Ubuntu on my Laptop from 7.10 to 8.04 tonight. It actually doesn&#... Show

Stats Page 1
Tuesday 02 September 2008, 21:00

I got the new "Most Viewed" section of the View Stats page properly equipped with a thumbn... Show

Bournemouth Air Show
Monday 01 September 2008, 23:39

After 4 days, just over half of the View photos have been viewed at least once already. I'm quit... Show

Scripting 5
Thursday 28 August 2008, 23:49

After two days of feeling like I'm about to die from the World's Worst Stomach Bug, you'... Show

Scripting 4
Tuesday 19 August 2008, 17:41

I realise that it is about 6 weeks since I said below that getting the comment confirmation page to ... Show

Multimap
Saturday 16 August 2008, 23:16

After I said "I assume that I will probably never get" an answer from Multimap on July 29t... Show

Scripting 3
Monday 11 August 2008, 23:46

I was getting a bit embarrassed about the lack of photos on the "On This Day" page… ... Show

Tors 4
Thursday 07 August 2008, 20:34

Not very busy at work today, so I took the afternoon off and headed off to Belstone for a walk round... Show

Scripting 2
Tuesday 05 August 2008, 17:20

I've been toying with the idea of rewriting the whole CD section, so I made a start this evening... Show

OS Maps 2
Thursday 31 July 2008, 21:19

I've spent a bit of time this evening adding markers to the OS maps. The bit I'm most chuffe... Show

OS Maps 1
Tuesday 29 July 2008, 20:46

I think all the OS maps should be up and running properly again. The OS API is a lot nicer to use th... Show

Disparaging comment about Multimap
Tuesday 29 July 2008, 18:07

I decided not to wait any further for a response from Multimap, and I assume that I will probably ne... Show

Highest Point in Southern England
Sunday 27 July 2008, 22:03

After a productive tor-visiting week, which included a trip to Rowtor, West Mill Tor, Yes Tor, High ... Show

Scripting 1
Friday 18 July 2008, 21:41

I added a section to the View photo page that allows you to click and view photos in adjacent grid s... Show

Soundbridge
Sunday 13 July 2008, 23:09

After trying on and off for a few weeks to get some decent Soundbridge control software on my Ubuntu... Show

Comments Welcome
Sunday 06 July 2008, 22:07

I added new feature to the Views sections tonight. You can now comment on the individual photos, and... Show

On This Day 3
Tuesday 01 July 2008, 22:36

D'oh… D'oh… D'oh… D'oh! The "On This Day" page has been ... Show

On This Day 2
Tuesday 24 June 2008, 21:40

A few more enhancements to the "On This Day" page tonight. I came up with a script that se... Show

On This Day 1
Thursday 19 June 2008, 21:49

This evening I finally got round to coding up an "On This Day…" page, which shows al... Show

Binoculars
Wednesday 11 June 2008, 17:55

Ugborough Beacon:I was also messing about with my binoculars, and I wondered if I could take a photo... Show

Furthest view from house 2
Tuesday 10 June 2008, 21:47

Further to the post below, I thought I'd go to the top of the back garden and see what the furth... Show

Furthest view from house 1
Sunday 08 June 2008, 21:35

I've been doing a bit of fiddling in Google Earth, trying to figure out what the furthest point ... Show

Laptop
Wednesday 04 June 2008, 19:15

I finally received a call from Dell this morning informing me that my new laptop will be delivered t... Show

ISS
Monday 02 June 2008, 00:14

Just spotted the ISS, low over Newton Abbot, but I missed Discovery this time. It may have been too ... Show

Space Shuttle and ISS
Sunday 01 June 2008, 22:41

Just went out and saw the ISS and Discovery pass overhead again. Discovery is about 5 minutes behind... Show

Space Shuttle Launch
Saturday 31 May 2008, 22:26

I just saw what is probably the single most incredible thing I've ever seen. I just watched Disc... Show

STILL No Laptop!
Tuesday 27 May 2008, 20:44

I phoned Dell this morning, and rather unbelievably, I was told by a very rude Indian lady that my o... Show

Still No Laptop
Tuesday 27 May 2008, 00:27

Still not happy with Dell. The woman I spoke to on Saturday assured me I would receive some communic... Show

Tors 3
Saturday 24 May 2008, 21:37

Oh yes… Dell. It's now 8 days since I ordered my laptop and I still haven't even recei... Show

No Laptop
Saturday 24 May 2008, 21:24

I knocked another three tors off my list yesterday, right down in the southern tip of the moor. I... Show

New Laptop
Friday 16 May 2008, 22:47

I just had a spending spree, partly brought on by the news that I'm getting a bonus this year. S... Show

Lightning!
Thursday 15 May 2008, 19:57

We had a pretty big thunderstorm last night, the first one for a long time. Two houses in Kingsteign... Show

50 Tors Reached
Monday 12 May 2008, 19:41

50 tors reached this evening, after 179 days so far. The 50th tor was Rowden Tor:Your browser does n... Show

Google Maps API 3
Saturday 26 April 2008, 00:01

I just had a big breakthrough with the three interactive Google Maps pages that I have here. Due to ... Show

Lucy Tor
Thursday 24 April 2008, 23:57

I went up to the moor again after work in order to visit the rock that I walked straight past on Tue... Show

Snow!
Thursday 17 April 2008, 18:33

I only just got round to uploading this photo (Click the photo for a larger version):It shows the sn... Show

Fire!
Wednesday 19 March 2008, 12:27

I spotted a huge fire on the moor this morning. Close inspection with binoculars showed a load of fl... Show

Google Maps API 2
Sunday 09 March 2008, 13:47

More messing about with Google Maps this morning. I've finally created a new front end map page ... Show

Google Maps API 1
Saturday 08 March 2008, 14:55

I have been messing around with the Google Maps API, connecting it to my Views/Tors database. The re... Show

LatLong
Wednesday 05 March 2008, 22:07

I had a pretty major breakthrough with the backend code in the views database today, although it end... Show

Tors 2
Sunday 02 March 2008, 19:05

I have plotted the coordinates of the vast majority of tors and hills on Dartmoor, and made them ava... Show

Tors 1
Sunday 24 February 2008, 20:40

I spent a bit of this weekend enhancing the tors page a bit. It now sports a "Details" lin... Show

Kingsteignton Weather 2
Tuesday 29 January 2008, 21:35

I spent parts of this evening creating a dynamically updated banner image for Kingsteignton-Weather:... Show

OS Maps
Friday 28 December 2007, 21:12

All the Ordnance Survey maps should be in place now. The coding and the database work didn't tak... Show

Bag Tor Bagged
Thursday 27 December 2007, 20:22

I went out on the moor yesterday to test out my new GPS. I just did a small walk somewhere I was fam... Show

GPS
Sunday 16 December 2007, 20:28

I just bought a GPS device. Not one of those all-too ubiquitous in-car must-haves that everyone seem... Show

Lucy
Wednesday 05 December 2007, 01:05

After an eventful day that was unlike anything I've ever experienced, we can welcome Lucy Bellam... Show

Visit Every Dartmoor Tor
Thursday 15 November 2007, 17:30

Now that the Views section has a healthy number of photos, and I've generated a bit of healthy c... Show

Weather Station 3
Sunday 28 October 2007, 22:43

I'm a bit chuffed with myself. After 3 weeks of trying hard to figure out how to get my Weather ... Show

Kingsteignton Weather 1
Friday 12 October 2007, 18:45

I've bought another domain name. The weather section of this site was starting to take on a life... Show

Weather Station 2
Sunday 07 October 2007, 10:13

The end of the first week of my 30s. A productive week though, as I finally got round to upgrading t... Show

Linux 3
Tuesday 25 September 2007, 19:15

After my somewhat satisfying first forays into the world of Linux (see here), I became a bit frustra... Show

Dartmoor Railway
Saturday 15 September 2007, 20:21

I spent today riding along the disused railway from Princetown down to Plymouth with my friend Dan a... Show

Yeovilton Arrivals 2
Sunday 08 July 2007, 11:34

Well, it's been exactly a year since I first started waffling away on this page, which means it&... Show

Tyrannosaurus Alan
Tuesday 15 May 2007, 10:49

Normally I'm not the sort of person who likes adverts. Most adverts enrage me to the point where... Show

Simons Deck
Thursday 26 April 2007, 17:56

Just got home from Bournemouth after spending the week with my brother Simon and building a deck in ... Show

Panorama
Thursday 19 April 2007, 19:32

Just got back from Teignmouth, but we stopped at Ware Barton to take the photo below. I was going to... Show

Linux 2
Sunday 25 February 2007, 23:38

The transfer from Windows to Linux on the Laptop is pretty much complete, and I'm writing this u... Show

Cilit Bang!
Tuesday 20 February 2007, 20:04

Mel just got back from Tesco with, among other things, a bottle of "Cillit Bang!". I'v... Show

Linux 1
Sunday 18 February 2007, 23:17

I spent a bit of time upgrading my laptop from windows XP to Mandriva 2007 (Linux - basically):Click... Show

Photos
Sunday 11 February 2007, 22:47

I went out this morning and took a load more photos for the Views section. It was a lovely morning, ... Show

New Barbeque
Sunday 04 February 2007, 23:56

We just bought one of these:Seeing as our last gas barbeque only cost me £10 and has just rece... Show

Firefly Media Server 2
Thursday 30 November 2006, 21:56

Firefly Media Server upgraded from svn-1417 to svn-1450, skipping svn-1433. I've also (with a li... Show

Firefly Media Server 1
Sunday 19 November 2006, 20:10

Firefly Media server successfully upgraded from the svn-1359 nightly to the svn-1417 nightly. I'... Show

Crashed Sea Harrier
Tuesday 07 November 2006, 20:57

I was looking through some old crap I had on my PC at work the other day and found these photos of a... Show

Bugs
Tuesday 07 November 2006, 20:07

I have just discovered yet more joys of living with an animal-lover. Not only does she force me to s... Show

Weather Station 1
Sunday 08 October 2006, 22:00

I got my weather station (mostly) up and running today. Mel bought it for my birthday last week, and... Show

Hard Drive Fixed
Thursday 05 October 2006, 21:48

I got my external HDD back today. It failed last week after I got back from Bournemouth, so it was p... Show

Iridium Flare
Sunday 10 September 2006, 21:57

Well, thanks to this page: http://www.heavens-above.com, I've just spotted my first "Iridiu... Show

Bathroom
Wednesday 06 September 2006, 19:24

HOLY MARY MOTHER OF GOD! Dave has pulled his finger out and got on with the bathroom! Well actually ... Show

Yeovilton Arrivals 1
Friday 07 July 2006, 20:45

I spent the day at RNAS Yeovilton, right on the end of the runway, which is happily becoming a bit o... Show