Category Archives: Web site

New elevation data on this site

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Pete

I had been pretty disheartened by the poor accuracy of the elevation data from my Magellan eXplorist 710. I guarantee there is no walk I’ve done that I couldn’t make a better estimate at the total ascent that this GPSr can. … Continue reading →

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mapRoute – Creating a web application

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Pete

Starting out One morning I woke up with an idea. Wouldn’t it be great to have a web application that allowed me and other walkers/hikers to plan routes. mapRoute was born. There are a few similar apps, but they are … Continue reading →

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Moving ISP (AOL to Sky)

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Pete

I live in a remote location with a basic telephone exchange which is nearly three miles from my house. My first ISP (Euronet) sadly went bust in 2006 and there were no LLUs in my exchange, so I had a … Continue reading →

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WordPress

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Pete

Today I installed WordPress – the guts behind this page. I guess I have already developed  my own WordPress for most of my other pages, as they are rendered from a database. If I could get my OS maps and … Continue reading →

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Web host renewal at eHostPros

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Pete

My web hosting contract was up for renewal, so with a paltry 200MB of disk space I started to look around at other options. In the past eHostPros has been the only host that could provide the long list of … Continue reading →

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