Archive for February 2007

MV National - White Downs

Saturday night was spent in Leatherhead. I watched a fair amount of the Six Nations and had dinner at a local Italian restaurant. From the Travelodge it was a short journey on Sunday morning to the event.
When I put on my o-shoes I noticed that my heel was sore. I decided to go up to [...]

JOK Chasing Sprint - Banstead Heath

This weekend was the JOK Chasing Sprint, held on Banstead Heath. The whole of this weekend was made more difficult by me forgetting to take any contact lenses with me and, so, having to run in my glasses - not the best way to start.
Prologue
In the morning was the prologue. A 5.9km course, with an, [...]

SSH Tips

I cannot remember where I got the first of these tips from, but I really am grateful for learning of it. I spend a fair amount of time ssh-ing into various machine I use. Having to type out the full command ’ssh [machine name]‘ is quite annoying - especially as some of the full machine [...]

WIM Winter Warmer - Ibsley Common

Reasonable course and a fairly good area to run on. I made a silly five (plus) minute mistake at number six, when I stopped concentrating and ran one spur further than I should have. The navigation was not that difficult and generally it was a case of running as fast as possible on a fairly [...]

Firefox Extensions

For my day to day internet browsing I use Firefox. One of the great features of Firefox is the ability to extend the browser using Add Ons (or extensions as they used to be known).
Last week I cam across FaviconizeTab. This extension allows you to reduce certain tabs so that all that is displayed is [...]

Weekend

On Saturday I went up to Malvern to meet up with a group of friends from my undergraduate days. Due to complicated scheduling this was our 2006 Christmas meetup! A rather good day
On Sunday I was at Inside Park for an a local orienteering event. The photos from the event are here. [...]

Consultation on BBC’s On-demand Services

The BBC is consulting over its’ proposed on-demand services. You can give your feedback here (not sure if that is UK only or not).
Of particular note are questions:
3) This concerns how long users will be able to store the content on their machine. I do not see how this suggestion can be feasibly implemented.
5) This [...]