John and Emma Bickers
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Blogging
We've moved our blog from Blogger to a WordPress blog
here, to try and move our stuff
into one place. It is usually updated weekly, and keeps a record of our
household events. These days the household revolves around our DNA cross
product, and my little namesake, John Junior, seen on the left at Emma's PC.
Pictures
A collection of family
photos, pictures taken
around the
place, and
images from
Google Earth. Most of the photos are taken with a
Canon IXUS v, which has served us well for several years. Our video camera, on
the other hand, a Panasonic NV-MX500, lost track of its DV port after a few
months.
Books
In 1997 I tried to find a copy of The Anabasis on-line, and was unsuccessful,
but I did come across
Project Gutenberg,
a volunteer project that collects electronic versions of books into a free
on-line library. I volunteered, and typed up The Anabasis myself, then all the
other translated works of Xenophon that I could find.
The following year I was lucky enough to meet Dagny, who was starting work on
Honoré de Balzac's series The Human Comedy. My younger brethren could get
volumes from a set done by a different translator, and by mid-1999 we had
managed to type them all.
We have worked on a number of other books since then, most notably H. Rider
Haggard's fiction novels, which are now all on-line.
Software
Coding is one of those things that can benefit from a round tuit. Hopefully I
will add more here when I get one.
Links
Our bookmarks.