Owls Count

Days 4 and 5, of the O-Ringen, were to the north and west of Mjölby, respectively. Both days finished through the edge of the town into the same assembly area. Day five included a bridge in the assembly area, after a run across the muddy last control. All of my routes from the week are [...]

Days 1, 2, and 3, of the O-Ringen, were to the east of Mjölby. The courses were on different parts of one big area, finishing in the same assembly field. All of my routes from the week are on RunOway. The walk to the assembly area crossed a river, which was rather high after the [...]

My father has uploaded his photos from the O-Ringen. Somehow I never got round to taking any photos myself!

While browsing the blog world I saw some links to the Web Trend Map 2007 Version 2.0. This is a rather cool tube-system like map of the ‘200 most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective.‘
I did a quick check through the map and found only a few sites [...]

… for a few days.
Sweden was good and I will write about it at some stage. Also found time to read the new Harry Potter, along with many others at the campsite!

Ollie mentioned that the current weather forecast for the OO.cup, in Slovenia, was hot. This prompted me to check out the forecast for those of us travelling to Sweden for the O-Ringen. Weather.co.uk has a ten day forecast, which predicts rain next week. This forecast is combined to news that: The last days heavy rainfall [...]

The Wall Street Journal reminds us that ‘It’s been 10 years since the blog was born.‘ I have been blogging for just over half of that time - my LiveJournal is five years old.
Recently I have been reading more about OpenID. While doing so I found OpenID Delegate WordPress Plugin, which allows me to delegate [...]

I, like a lot of people, use Akismet to help block spam on my blog. Yesterday they announced that they had blocked two billion spam comments. While the work the people at Akismet do is fantastic there is something depressing in realising that 94% of the comments made to Akismet protected blogged are spam.