Pendle Hill Walk

Did an 8 1/2 mile walk round Pendle hill today.

Continue Reading 1 comment January 14th, 2006

X-Ray firefox extension

X-Ray is a new firefox extension that allows you to view the underlying HTML code on the page. Its simpler than going to view source, but shows less information, presumably to prevent long tags breaking the layout etc. For example you see <a> in front of a link and not the link.

One installed the X-Ray command is available by right-clicking as well as in the Tools menu. When applied to a page it can help you see how the document was constructed without having to go back and forth between the sourcecode and the page in your browser. Is that list made of li dd or p elements? Is that an h3 tag or just some bolded text? X-Ray shows you what’s beneath the surface of the page.

All in all well worth a look, but it would be nice if it was hosted by Mozilla and not on a blog, it works for me but YMMV.

Grab X-Ray here.

Add comment January 12th, 2006

Rydal Water and Grasmere

Saturday saw a lesiurely walk round the two small lakes of Grasmere and Rydal Water, with lunch at a rather nice cafe at Grasmere.

Continue Reading Add comment January 9th, 2006

Slickr

Slickr is a free screensaver that gets photos from flickr - you can choose any user, tag or group as the feed for the screensaver. This is pretty much what I have been looking for my pc in work. It does lack a couple of features like selecting multimple tags or users, but hey, its beta and theres a good chance more features will be put in - its already been popular on digg.com and elsewhere.

Needs .NET framework and Windows.

Grab it here - cellardoorsw.com

1 comment January 5th, 2006

Kirkstone Pass walk

The first walk of many more in 2006. This walk covered Hartsop Dodd, Caudale Moor (Stony Cove Pike), St Ravens Edge and Red Screes.

Continue Reading 2 comments January 4th, 2006

Wainwright Bagging List

I have decided to have a go at ‘bagging’ all the Wainwrights. Wainwrights are mountains / hills in the Lake District that A Wainwright wrote about in his famous pictorial guides.

There are 214 of them, and this is likely to take more than a year to do due to other commitments.

Continue Reading 2 comments January 3rd, 2006

Helvellyn from Hartsopp Dodd

Helvellyn from Hartsopp Dodd
Originally uploaded by markc123.

Helvellyn from close to the Summit of Hartsopp Dodd - showing a very white Striding edge.

This was taken on Bank Holiday Monday - notes from this first walk of the year to come tonight after work.

Add comment January 3rd, 2006