Main Page
Simon's Useful Info Wiki.
Links of Links
- LULinks Lancaster University links
Wiki and blog information
- wiki and 'Getting started':
- Editing examples <-- I refer to this a lot!
- The wiki software User's Guide
- Configuration settings list
- MediaWiki FAQ
- MediaWiki release mailing list
- Drupal - Gave up. Too large, too slow, too clunky, too much to learn, too vulnerable.
- WordPress
Web site monitoring and maintenance
- awstats
- Creating subdomains
- MS SQL
- Uptime and certificate monitoring
- Monitoring web page changes
- Online file mirroring services
- Web site statistics
- noip2 / No-IP2
Operating systems
Language
- diacritics
- Language, e.g. Useful words, Proverbs, Phonetic alphabet, Light at the End of the Tunnel
- Numbers, e.g. Uptime, hexadecimal watch words
- Is it a policy, procedure, protocol, guideline or standard?
- Procrastination
- Oxymorons
Programming languages
- Python
- BASIC on Linux
- Google Apps Script or whatever Google are calling the macros language for Google Docs / Google Sheets this month.
Artificial Intelligence
Devices
- Asus X401A
- Pegatron Cape 7
- msi U180
- Asus EeeBox PC model EB1007P
- Antec - a Tenzy custom build
- CyKey - a chording keyboard
- Huawei 4G Mobile WiFi E589 unlocking
- Plusnet 2704n / Sagemcom 2704n / Hub Zero 2704n Broadband Router advanced settings
- BlackBerry Curve 9320
- kobo Touch e-reader
Software
- Firefox
- Personal finance software
- CD ripping software
- Personal organiser software
- OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice
- Distributed computing and Boinc
- Webcam / camera monitoring software
- Remote access
- Collaborative online working Online tools for collaborative working
- Office 2013 migration
- Feng Office
- Desert Order
- NextCloud
Education and Learning
- Free learning e.g. Coursera, OpenLearn, FutureLearn
- Free flashcard software and web sites
- How we learn icluding David Kolb's Learning Cycle, Honey & Mumford, the Change Curve et al.
Skills
- geospatial
- Agile, e.g. Scrum, DSDM and EVO
- Project management
- Change management
- Tools and Techniques
- Awnimos
- Pareto Principle
- PRINCE3
- Foalma
- Technology evolution
- Security
- CSSF and related acronyms
- Data migration
- Annoying spammers
- No New Wars 11112018
- Mental Health
- eXtreme Project Management
Employment
Interests
- Aurora how and when
- Climate change actions But what can I do?