Travelling Tim

Travelling Tim maintains a number of separate Blog Pages that reflect his current interests. See the latest entries below...

	Travelling Tim - A Voyage of Discovery into Other Minds and Cultures. Touring Nova Scotia June 27, 2009 12:14 AM Comments (1) I've now reached the end of my seven weeks of WWOOFing at 'Horse and Garden' in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada, and am looking forward to the next highlight in my summer of 2009 - a 9 week training voyage on... Soviet Nuclear Weapon Photos - 1 June 16, 2009 10:51 PM Comments (0) During the Cold War of the 1960s and '70s, the US kept most of their ICBMs (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles) in underground missile silos, hardened against direct attack. However, with the development of increasingly more precise inertial guidance systems, they were...
	GPS Jottings - I navigate through the World of GPS, and GPS Maps. GPX Route Map Technical Details July 8, 2008 6:30 AM Comments (0) This page describes the procedures used to record and process a series of Garmin GPX files for display online as a Google Map, or as a detailed report that displays a GPX file in the form of graphs and useful... How to save Tracklogs from a GPSmap 60cx February 16, 2008 1:14 PM Comments (0) This article hopes to clear up some misunderstandings about the Garmin GPSmap 60cx receiver (no doubt others in the same range, too) and help you to understand just how the memory and memory card are used. The object of the...
	Tims Web Notes - The Conquest of Conundrums: A list of Web How-To's. Too many open files February 29, 2008 3:54 PM Comments (0) My website was recently having a problem accessing pages with active content, driven from the cgi bin. When I type their address in my browser, I get a '500 Internal Server Error' page. Its text read as follows: Internal Server... Movable Type 4.0 site Hacked February 18, 2008 5:24 PM Comments (0) Ever had your website taken over? Its no fun. The other day I logged on to find that my site was partially infested with files that I hadn't put there. In certain directories there was an .htaccess file, and another...
	Photo Focus - Discoveries in Hardware, Software, Technique, & Sales. HDR Photography - 2 January 10, 2009 6:27 AM Comments (1) Some more of my recent HDR photographs for you to look at... The Jaswant Thada at Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India The Jaswant Thada at Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India The Jaswant Thada at Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India The Gadi Sagar at Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India... High Dynamic Range Photography December 16, 2008 8:50 AM Comments (0) I have recently been experimenting with HDR photography, and am very pleased with some of the results. HDR, which stands for 'High Dynamic Range' is a way of creating a more balanced image than is otherwise normally possible with...
	Thoughts & Serendipity - Things to Share from Mind, Life, & Web. One Life is Ended July 13, 2008 10:59 AM Comments (0) I was recently reading a book called 'Slow Boats To China', in which the author, Gavin Young, describes a series of sea journeys he took whilst travelling from Athens to Canton. In that book he narrates an incident that happened... Things I'd like to share October 26, 2007 2:29 PM Comments (0) The idea behind this particular one of my Blogs came about whilst surfing on the internet. You all know the kind of thing: start with a particular site in mind, explore it for a while, then click on an interesting...
	Photo Gallery - An online Exhibition of Walks and Travel Photographs. If a picture speaks a thousand words, then there are plenty here to keep you a satisfied surfer. Explore the East Sussex countryside, and plot the location of every walk-photo on a Google Satellite Map. See my latest outings and journeys with students, friends, and family. Check out my travels through Africa. And keep coming back - this Gallery is updated regularly.