Welcome to Ian Barton's web site. Here you will find a collection of ramblings about mountaineering, Linux and free software, farming, cycling and the English country side, plus a few other bits and bobs.
After several years using the excellent PmWiki wiki based system, I have moved to a static site generated with Jekyll. Since the site is maintained just by me, I didn't really need the collaborative features of a wiki. Also Jekyll makes it easy for me to write using my favourite editor Emacs while maintaining my site under version control using git . I was also fed up with my web logs being filled up with bots trying to post stuff to my wiki, even though all edits required authorization. In fact the bots were using up almost all the RAM on my Xen virtual web server and I got tired of adding the bot ip addresses to my hosts.deny.
It's going to take a while to get this site working properly. If you find any broken links, or missing pages, please let me know.