Patrick O'Brian

About six years ago, I wrote a MacOS version of my Patrick O'Brian Mapping Project screensaver.

I discovered this worthy YouTube project this morning.

For those people who aren't running a recent version of MacOS and weren't able to install my Patrick O'Brian screensaver, this is a video I recorded of it (sped up to fit in 60 seconds):

I have completed a 1.0 version of my Patrick O'Brian screensaver.

After I finished my atlas of all the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey Maturin novels I thought it might be cool to see all the courses I plotted on a single world map.

Fourteen years ago I finished reading the twenty one novels by Patrick O'Brian set during the Napoleonic wars and on various ships commanded by the protagonist Jack Aubrey and his particular friend Stephen Maturin.

Blue at the Mizzen is finished.

The Hundred Days Map is finished.

The Yellow Admiral Map is done.

The Commodore Map is done.

The WIne Dark Sea, despite all the South American trials, almost brought the Surprise home to the chops of the channel.

Cracking on like smoke and oakum.

In 2018 I completed my map of the The Letter of Marque and lamented the long wait between it and the previous book.

My map of the events in The Letter of Marque is complete.

Bruce Trinque, an esteemed member of the Gunroom, passed away last year.

My map of the events in The Reverse of the Medal is complete.

Enjoyed this far more than Richard Temple.

Just didn't really care what happened to this guy by the end of the novel.

My map of the events in The Far Side of the World is complete.

Wish me joy!

My map of the events in Treasons Harbour is complete.

A small thank you for the kind words from those lovely folks over at the Aubrey Maturin Sub Reddit .

My map of the events in The Ionian Mission is complete.

I am very happy to announce that Art Marine has decided to sponsor the Patrick O'Brian Mapping Project.

The events of The Surgeons Mate, rescue by HMS Shannon, a long chase in The Packet Diligence and the final voyage of the HMS Ariel, is complete.

I spent the workshop at todays DevFest porting the ancient version two javascript in the Patrick O'Brian Mapping Project over to version three: The old implementation was accessing raw XML file via the old GXMLHttp object.

I have had, for as long as I remember, a deeply rooted confidence in science and a corresponding lack of faith in religion.

Caught in a storm of distracting personal projects, I have been driven onto a lee shore mapping The Surgeon's Mate.

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While working on some new data for the Surgeon's Mate I discovered, to my horror, that when I had moved my data model from the old pathalogical per-ship approach to a more sensible per-book version, I lost some data.

I have become slightly stalled on the Surgeon's Mate.

Back at work after Appendectomy induced hiatus.

The events of The Fortune of War, which mostly occur with Jack and Dr Maturin onboard other ships or in Boston, is complete.

Also of note were six local developers who showcased their app at our speedgeeking contest: contest winners Casey and Dan Russell of CleanCruising, Nick Lothian of Scootle, Ken Hoetmer of Quikmaps, Tom Horn of the Patrick O'Brian Mapping Project, Tak Tran…

The voyage of Jack Aubrey in command of the HMS Leopard described at the begining of The Fortune of War is mapped.

The voyage of Jack Aubrey in command of the HMS Leopard is mapped.

The voyage of Commodore Jack Aubrey in command of the HMS Boadicea is mapped.

The voyage of Commodore Jack Aubrey in command of the aging HMS Raisonable is mapped.

The end of my first voyage through the cannon is a melancholy one knowing that this wonderful series was cut short with the author's death.

The 6 finalists, chosen from hundreds of great Australian mashups, were all fantastic.