Daughter’s first web site!
by robert on May 1, 2012
Amazing… she’s done all this herself… well done Hannah :)
got my phone back…
by robert on April 29, 2012
…not that it ever went anywhere, but vodafone pushed out the Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Sensation i have and the performance fell through the floor! gingerbread performed perfectly fine, the upgrade wasn’t so much ICS as BTS – that’d be Black Treacle Sandwich!
thanks to a tip i just found via the vodafone forum from alex_gregory_uk i cleared the “fast boot” checkbox from the “power” setting menu, rebooted and it seems that this has cleared the problem…
the fact that this post opens with “In Android, fastboot is a special diagnostic and engineering protocol…” plus the fact that the handset itself as the note “Not recommended with some Market apps” [but doesn't say why!?] suggests that a default of “checked” is probably not a good thing…
chrome beta has suddenly become usable and hopefully the performance won’t mean that calls cannot be answered just because a dual core device with a full battery is trying to load itself?!
very clever…
by robert on April 10, 2012
http://www.thismanslife.co.uk/projects/lab/responsiveillustration/…
stackoverflow…
by robert on March 29, 2012
I love stackoverflow, I joke with people “Google knows everything. Stackoverflow knows even more.”… I’d automatically follow a link to stackoverflow ahead of anything else regardless of position on the Google search result…
No reason for this post other than to say that I’m a fan :)
living the dream…
by robert on March 19, 2012
Adding a NAS folder for use in Final Cut Pro X
by robert on March 17, 2012
I’m accredited!
by robert on March 12, 2012
My Pre-Cursa and I successfully gained track accreditation at the Manchester Velodrome (National Cycling Centre) last night… Most pleased :)
It was an excellent evenings riding with a really good group (I’ve had a couple of horrendous groups recently) and now I’m considered “safe” on the track I can ride at their structured training sessions :)
Anyone with a keen interest in cycling should give the track a go at least once, I’ve loved learning a whole new set of skills and meeting some new people, the coaches are superb and are so keen to share what they know, help, raise confidence and want to see everyone (who is safe) progress…
So last night we spent about an hour in the saddle, did a 10 minute warm up then the main skills session (“lumps & bumps” as they call it, changing on the lap/half lap, changing in pairs and a chain gang or square dance as they called it) for half an hour[ish] which was then followed by a “mock race” – the line started out pretty fast and it only got quicker, i ended up almost at the back when the race started (we rode the first 15 of 20 laps changing on the half lap then it was ‘on’) so had to work up through the group but managed to cross the line 4th or 5th so I was quite pleased and my Garmin (which was in my jersey pocket) reported a top speed of 37.6MPH so we certainly weren’t hanging about (unlike this lot! ;)… Finally we had a few laps behind a Derny bike which was superb, really enjoyed that – especially when the pace lifted and lifted and lifted… much fun :)
Update: I wrote to Mr Jarl Walsh who is the general manager at the NCC to pass on my thanks to the team that got me to the level I’ve reached… It felt strangely old fashioned (in a really good way) that he wrote back to thank me for my letter… In a world where “please” and “thank you” no longer seem to be a necessary it was great to get a personally signed letter simply thanking me for thanking them… I probably shouldn’t be surprised though, I guess if that is how the top man thinks and behaves, presumably that’ll bubble down…
Team Sky: Pushing Hard
by robert on March 7, 2012
I can’t imagine riding like this and then being able to smile!
People make amazing stuff…
by robert on February 29, 2012
… I ran a couple of search terms by Google looking for some ballet related typography examples, one thing led to another and I stumbled across a video that is fantastic!
Dance set to Stanton Warriors ‘Turn Me Up Some’
the style, dance or music may not be to everyones taste (the delivery of the title in the film does nothing whatsoever for me) but it is very creative and certainly shows a ballerina en pointe in a bizarre setting that actually works really well – i love this sort of thing, I find it very inspirational…
love it…
by robert on February 24, 2012
Christian Grasmann on the boards in Manchester with a GoPro mounted to his bike… I wonder if I’ll ever lose sufficient number of marbles to be able to ride like this? Or have hands as steady as his!