After a few horrendously busy and boring weeks at work managing a massive server failure, planning and starting to move house into East Dulwich (London), and trying to keep up with my other responsibilities, I've almost resurfaced into the fresh air of normal life and this unseasonally warm spring.

On the bright side I've revamped my web site to remove lots of unnecessary cruft, I've updated the articles section with my regular features on free culture and a few KDE/GNOME stories, and I've moved to flickr for photos for simplicity's sake. My favourite change is that articles are now integrated into the blog, which will encourage me to pop them up once the first publisher's exclusitity period expires.

I've also created my favourite OpenStreetMap to date, the results of a mapping party and a couple of lunchtime strolls with colleagues. It will be used by a group of 60-odd local community figures as part of a day-long event looking to make the area more pleasant and sustainable, and shows varying degrees of "pathways of desire" from official footpaths to faintly eroded trails. I'm looking forward to mapping my new ~6mile cycle route to work, much bettter than 3 hours / day on the train!