Lester's Rants

It is almost 11 months since I moved into the flat and finally there is progress on solving the problem of no pressure on the hot water. Now I just need to get the go ahead on converting the loft space into a railway room and small workshop. I've put down some flooring where the 1980's roof trusses are supported by the kitchen and bathroom walls, but to expand the area to perhaps 6 meters square I will need to add some more substantial joists which only need to span 3 meters from the…

OK got up this morning planning to get on with some real work, but spotted an article on The Register that Plasma6.4 has been released which included a warning that X11 may not be supported! So 2.5 hours later after checking in again with wayland on my Version 6.3 setup ... I'm back with X11!

The reason is quite simple. One of the main applicatins I use, as I am NOW, is Firefox, but on wayland the windo…

Just been reading Jeremy Bowen's report on the BBC New site re Palestine. It prompted me to put a comment in as it just flags up the injustice that many people in the world today have to put up with. I pushed the following as a 'Have your say' message, and am copying it here mainly for my own reference. 50e18d8f-b60b-46f5-bcf7-c3220dc24a51

"The one thing that I am seein…

After a number of false starts I now have a copy of the bitweaver code base which has a namespace setup that works for me, but is probably not 'right' for such services as composer. There is still some work to do and while 'traits' could have been useful, the idea of converting hundreds of possibly single line functions into classes just does not make sense to me. I've ended up with an extension for Smarty5 with all of the functions and modifiers managed through that but I…

I was begining to get flustrated as when I changed things everything stopped working again, but over the last few days which have been broken up with things like a visit to the GWR Festival of Steam on Saturday and a Dolls house show in Churchdown on Sunday. Obviously getting my mind off the software side was the right thing to be doing and this morning I took stock of where I am and things are looking good. The bitweaver framework is fairly stable, and I now have a copy of phpgedview running…