Of Flowers and Day Moons (by sarah)

I saw a sliver of white moon in the blue blue sky and the flowers varilly glowing in the warm sunlight and so I tried to take a picute of it.

Its hard work but there is a day moon in each of these pictures. Even without spotting that tiny sliver I think the composition of the pictures them selves are buetiful. What do people think?

I want critasism here people.

Dragons, Aliens and Space Ships (by sarah)

I've finially remembered to post this over on Salaric, I had to design a Chinese new year craft activity for the Cubs here it is!

http://www.salaric.co.uk/2007/01/28/chinese-dragon/

I also got around to putting up the post on what the kids made on Space Camp 🙂

http://www.salaric.co.uk/2007/04/15/aliens-and-space-ships/

e-zine On hold :'( (by sarah)

Today was supposed to see the luanch of The Spaces Inbetween e-zine but unfortunatly we just have not had enough submissions and with the best will in the world there is no way the editor could justify going live with an edition that would have been only mine and Ella's work! That includes all the artwork.

We could have infact had an edition with just 2 contributors but it was felt that it just somehow seemed wrong.

This is a shame as I was hoping to give our friends first bash at this e-zine - oh well time for plan b) to wit - advitising for contributors properlly.

I am still happy to look at peoples work - think cross genre, think marginalised genres, think the Snell-Pym book collection and DVD stack, that should give a clue as to what we are looking for!

I am very sad that this project has had to go on hold like this but the editorial staff would rather do this than produce something substandard!

e-zine (by sarah)

We are going to be launching our e-zine in April - it will come out monthly and we are looking for submissions!

Now I do not want to post our mission statement until we are up and running but if any one is interested then please contact me - deadlines for the first issue is March the 1st! We regret that we can not give people money for material at the moment but we can offer free advertising space and back payments should the 'zine take off!

Hope too hear from peeps!

Kitten Technologies (by alaric)

For some time now, I've been sitting on the domain kitten-technologies.co.uk, intended as an outlet for my "intellectual property" - whereas Snell Systems is me for hire to do bespoke stuff, Kitten Technologies is meant to be my more generic packaged outputs; all open source stuff for now, although I have plans for some more commercial things later.

Anyway, I've slowly been working towards a fairly decent automatic release management site, based around all the projects being in Subversion repository and having standardised filenames at the top level of each project root (LICENCE.txt, README.txt, VERSION.txt, etc).

But with the successful upgrading of my server infrastructure to Apache 2, I can run Subversion over HTTP, meaning I can finally allow public Subversion access (with the option to give other people commit access to individual projects in future), so I've now got the project management page up to a state where I'm not ashamed of it any more.

So, for example, I've recently been messing around with a server status monitoring package, a bit like Nagios but done in a way I prefer, which I've called The Eye Of Horus.

There is a main project information page, and a download page which links to the latest official release, and to a nightly dev snapshot tarball; and gives the public read-only Subversion URL (http://svn.kitten-technologies.co.uk/horus/trunk/), and links to a subversion browser to look at the revision histories of everything.

Right now there's only me working on any of the projects, but if others collaborate (I have a few potential takers for Horus, since it seems there's a lot of minor dissatisfaction with Nagios), I can give them Subversion commit access, and set up project mailing lists as required; but I may integrate issue tracking into the Kitten Tech site itself, if it seems useful to let others submit bug reports and the like.