Owls Count

I know that some in the orienteering world are also into hashing. Well it seems that the authorities in New Haven, Connecticut, did not like the flour trail that two hashers had put out.
This link from Schneier on Security, where there is discussion of this incident and other ‘terror scares’.

I had not planned to do any orienteering for a while, but an opportunity came up to go to the BAOC event at Barossa today. They were running a one person relay event. The A course was four loops of just over 2km each. The B, C, and D courses were 3, 2, and 1 [...]

For several years now I have been keeping an orienteering/training log. This is something I programmed myself, as a project to learn php/mysql. I keep thinking about moving to a different system - Attackpoint or Nopesport for instance - but then remember how much info I have already and decide not to.
Over the last few [...]

When north is not north!
Over the last few months I had been noticing that every time I ran on a compass bearing I seemed to be ending up off to one side of where I had expected to be. I had been thinking that I was not running particularly accurately on the bearing, but on [...]

In the best traditions of the ‘rest’ day I kept fairly busy. I did not, however, take part in mountain bike orienteering - which sounds to have been fairly epic!
Tomintoul

My day started with a trip over to Tomintoul to visit the Whisky Castle. There I tasted a few, before picking up a bottle from the [...]

Day 4 - Culbin
My Route
Reasonable day, but could have been much better. On any of the longer legs I seemed to be zig-zagging rather than running directly in the direction I was planning on going - losing a few minutes in total. On the penultimate course I ran in the right general direction, but lost [...]

Day 1 - Alvie
My Route
A fairly good start to the week. I felt my running and navigation were reasonable, but I needed to push harder on the long legs - something that was a theme of the week.
Day 2 - Balavil
My Route
A good first day followed by a poor second. I had an early start, [...]

It seems that my laptop is 15 years old. Or rather the family of laptops it is from. I am fairly impressed with the IBM Thinkpad range.
Caught on camera – and found on Facebook: It seems that the University of Oxford is using Facebook photos to catch people breaking the exam celebration rules. That they [...]