This website was created entirely with Free Software. This page is to give credit where credit is due, and highlight the more talented packages.

Content

Unless otherwise specified, content (including but not limited to designs, text, images and photographs) is Copyright © 1998-2008 Iain Georgeson and Cathy Georgeson.

I haven't decided on a license for the content on this site. I suspect it will end up under a Creative Commons license. Until then, all rights are reserved, except where explicitly noted. As ever, feel free to link to my pages, just don't try to present them as your own by tricks like framing the page or embedding my images.

If you do want to use any of the content under copyleft-style terms (for example, text or photos from the diaries in a Wikitravel article), email me, and I'll almost certainly allow it.

Graphics

All on-site graphics created entirely by me (with the aid of the GIMP) with the exceptions of the fish, which someone sent to me a few years ago and I subsequently hacked around, the durge.org blob, which is derived from a doodle of Dave's, and the Australia map, which I nicked from the web and scribbled on. Bad Iain... The other maps on the site are from the excellent "Alabama Maps Project" at the University of Alabama's Cartographic Research Laboratory.

GIMP, by the way, stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It's a very powerful package, able to do some very spangly things.

Photos taken prior to 2001 (notably the Europe diary) were taken by Cathy and me on a vanilla 35mm camera, and developed onto Photo-CD.

Photos before October 2005 (including Australia, Russia and France) were taken by Cathy and me on a 2 Mpixel Olympus C-220Z digital camera.

The remaining ones, October 2005 onwards (including Wales), were taken on a 5 Mpixel Panasonic FZ-20.

They appear here courtesy of the netpbm package and much clever perl hackery.

Templating

This site is brought to you by hitoplive, Dave and Darren's HTML preprocessor. hitoplive is responsible for the navigation and common look-and-feel of the site. It only actually produces code you write in the first place, it just does it in a clever manner that lets you build up macros and write out a navigation menu with a minimum of fuss. Think "C preprocessor".

It is also responsible for one of the most fiendish Makefile expressions known to man.

Text Editor

Fact:

You haven't lived until you've played Pick Your Fish with Emacs.

Luckily there is still time to save yourselves. Emacs is a Lisp interpreter, loosely disguised as a text editor. This means not only that it can do anything, but also that the user can program it very simply to do anything else. I now use it for all my editing needs.

It has useful hooks for all the tasks you can imagine and a deeply funky on-line help system. Get yours today.

Magic

Sometimes, you just need Things To Happen. Like captions on your photos, randomly changing nav bars or a feature in your editor that renders your web pages, compares them with the published version, generates a patch and compresses it. Perl, as you may have heard, is your friend.

Web Browser

I still need to check how it looks, and there's only one browser worth playing with:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0-2)

Firefox is the nuts. Nuff said.