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Jacob Benjamin Zass-Bangham was born on 1st February 2008, at 16:42.  He weighed in at 9lb 12oz, or 4440g for the metrically inclined.

Finally, we find a campsite with space. Near bakewell, quite peaceful and not too far from the pub.

It’s lovely. Huge pub lunch with pudding and now only 20 miles ’til buxton.

Just some notes on calculating energy efficiency and links to resources relating to energy usage.

I attended a training session today at ZWIN - Zero waste initiative for local business. ZWIN is a registered charity which offers a free inital energy usage assessment and report to local businesses in the Richmond-Upon-Thames area of South-West London, UK.

One of the key points covered in assessing energy usage is the annual energy usage per square metre in a building. We covered the basics of how to calculate this but didn’t have any hard data to use as a benchmark for scoring businesses.

Some research identified the Communities and local Government site which has a good sample report. This follows the UK standard assessment procedure for energy usage (SAP) - but doesn’t contain any actual benchmark figures.

In comparison, the Australian Government website has some excellent typical energy usage figures. The totals for various building types in the USA are reproduced here but the full report gives a breakdown by type of use - space heating, cooling, refrigeration, office equipment and so on:

There are also some good guideline figures on the cibse.org site, for which the data is UK-specific. Here, the figures range from around 100 kWh/m² to 580 kWh/m² - a little lower overall than those above from the USA.

I quite like this watch

but it’s a bit pricey…

Ever wondered about getting your garden redesigned?

Louise has been working flat-out to launch her new website, with a little help from me.

She specialises in sustainable design - making beautiful gardens that don’t cost the earth.

Update: Louise spoke recently at the Society of Garden Designers conference on her vision of garden design in the future.  She has more exciting plans for the new year so check her website for more information.

I suppose I could have just used eclipse, which would have saved some pain. But the course I’m studying recommends, and supports, JBuilder, so JBuilder it is. Or so I thought until the installer died…

The download was simple enough once I’d registered and I didn’t even need to dirty myself at the command line to unpack the tar.gz - jolly old Fedora has a nice gui archive manager.

$ cd ~/tmp/jbuilder2005_linux/
$ ./install.bin awk: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Plus about 17 other similar such errors… arse biscuits. And so, by the power of a well-known search engine, I discovered that
$ cp install.bin install.bin.bak
$ cat install.bin.bak |sed “s/export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/#xport LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/” >install.bin

$ ./install.bin

is all that was required. From the IBM page in the search results:

Cause - Older Java versions have problems with floating stacks of glibc’s that have been optimized for Intel® i686 architecture

Solution - Comment out the following line in the JAVA_HOME/bin/java file:

export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5

Whilst I don’t have a JAVA_HOME/bin/java file, the menalto.com link in the search above pointed to editing the installer itself. I suppose sed’ing export to #xport, rather than the more obvious # export, keeps the filesize the same.

Here are our bikes

The ADU team, well part of it…

As well as making it up the hill, I found these foxgloves.