Tom Goskar

Freelance consultant for digital heritage

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  • Bells at St Bartholomews, Lostwithiel

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    via AudioBoo Posted via email from Tom’s posterous

  • Twins

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    Posted via email from Tom’s posterous

  • Palazzo doors, Palermo

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    Palazzo doors, Palermo, originally uploaded by *Tom*. In a recent trip to Sicily, Tehm and I visited Palermo. Whilst wandering around the old churches, in Piazza Pretoria I spotted these doors on an old palazzo. They really captured my imagination, and in a way sum up Palermo for me. Peeling, faded, remnants of a past…

  • A short tour of the British Museum made shorter

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    A short tour of the British Museum made shorter from Tom Goskar on Vimeo. I took a little wander around the British Museum’s Great Court and some upper galleries, and filmed as I went on my cameraphone. The original video was 11 minutes long, sped up here by 800%, so I suppose it’s a 24mph…

  • eeePC 901 and eeebuntu

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    A quick update: while I initially liked the default Linux installation on my eeePC (Xandros) I rather quickly began to dislike it when trying to install OpenOffice. It also felt… clunky. So, I did a bit of reading about some of the eeePC blogs out there and came across eeebuntu. To cut a long story…

  • Nokia E71 Battery Life

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    I’ve just noticed that the battery level on my E71 is down to just one bar. This doesn’t worry me, as I’ll be charging it in about an hour’s time. I wouldn’t normally blog about something as mundane as my battery being low, if it weren’t for the fact that the last time I charged…

  • Live streaming video from the Nokia E71

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    Recently, while on holiday in Penzance, I saw some spectacular waves breaking on and over the sea defences. It was so amazing, I wanted friends and family to see it as well. I’ve had Qik installed on my phone for a while, going largely unused, so I thought that I’d load it up and give…

  • RIP Netscape Navigator

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    AOL have announced the end of support for the Netscape web browser. Netscape 2 was the first web browser that I ever used, on a PC running Windows 3.11. Good memories, but things have moved on a long way since then. I’m now split between using Safari 3 as my main browser, and Firefox for…

  • Blogging habits, Twitter and aggregators

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    I haven’t been posting much to this blog, or to Past Thinking lately. There’s been no reason for this except perhaps that I’ve just got out of the habit of blogging. I don’t want to force myself to post things to my blog, but I think I’ll try and remember to post little snippets of…

  • Moving and internet access

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    I’ve been a bit slow on the old blogging front lately, due mainly to the fact that I’ve been without an internet connection at home for a month now. Tehmina and I have moved house, and Demon Internet still don’t seem able to cope particularly well with moves. They cut us off 3 weeks before…