Owls Count

Last year I ran at Culbin and made a reasonable job of it, so it was with some confidence that I returned this year. For the individual we were running on a bit to the east of the one used last summer.

I did not start too well. I allowed myself to be distracted by others and drifted way off. On noticing the forest road I realised my mistake and went into the first control - losing just over a minute. For control three I lost another minute by losing height off the ridge and hitting the wrong set of knolls - though this was kept to a small time loss as I quickly realised where I had gone.

I should have run a little more direct and strongly to six. Control seven was took double the amount of time that it should have to found - a two minute mistake. I got close to the control then went off to join a group of people looking about 50m away, before taking notice of the vegetation.

The next few controls were fine, but then I messed around on the long leg to thirteen. I should have run more directly and strongly, but instead took a longer route round. I lost a couple of minutes here between the longer route and running slowly. Going to sixteen I lost a minute running slowly. I then took the longer path route round to seventeen - this seems to have been a reasonable choice, since it gave a better attack point.

Overall I am satisfied with the run. I ran strongly for much of the course, aided by being around others of a similar pace, and only made small mistakes.

Photos: 1 - 2

My route

The new version of WordPress adds additional protection for cookies. It is very much worth adding the config option mentioned, since it helps protect against problems where a database have already been compromised.

Hot on the heels of WordPress 2.5.0 is the security update - WP 2.5.1.

Rumours that I have as many draft posts as SKG are false - though more than ten will exist soon if I keep leaving them unpublished!

In between all the recent orienteering I have also helped at an event. Just after Easter my parents had agreed to plan and organise the BAOC event, which was held at Blandford Camp - on the training area.

While I’ve run around the camp before, the bit we were using for this event is new to me. Plans to drive round to the far side of the area and start putting out the controls from that direction were thwarted when we found a fallen tree blocking the small country lane. Instead we went in through the camp - parking on the old airfield.

The courses were very much in the middle distance idea of clusters, with many changes of direction. Nothing greatly technical, but very good fun. The promised heavy rain held off and we had a fairly good day.

I saw this meme going around the blog world and decided to join in.

history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head

Work

73 ls
63 svn
62 cd
56 make
48 vi
24 sudo
24 grep
17 acroread
15 ispell
9 ./repos-update.sh

Home

57 vi
54 cd
52 rm
50 ls
25 svn
25 sudo
23 make
23 git
15 mv
14 irb

Geir mentions that GitHub is live and that ‘Git is conquering the world‘.

At this point I feel rather smug. I keep a repository of my own files on one of my machines. When I set up this repository, several years ago, I picked Subversion. However, recently the repository server has been offline and, so, I needed easy offline access to the repository. Fairly much randomly I decided to use Git, through the git-svn tool.