Archive for the “View Finder” category
iStockphoto just utterly fucked its biggest asset!
by robert on September 7, 2010
iStockphoto was a fantastic way of me getting a handful of images to pay a very small return, very small, less than the amount of pocket money I’d pay my kids… but it was wonderful to know that someone wanted (…)
PayPal…
by robert on August 4, 2010
…never use their services, they simply don’t deserve customers! Google turns up a shed load of reasons why they are a truly awful organisation, I have recently had a very bad experience with them withholding a very significant sum of (…)
Garmin Edge 305 reset
by robert on June 22, 2010
dunno why but my Edge 305 just closed itself down and wouldn’t start up! Holding the Mode & Lap/Reset button together for a few seconds (I counted to 10 reasonably slowly) then pressed the power button and it sprang back (…)
A very bright let down..?
by robert on February 7, 2010
Father Christmas was very kind and brought me a new light for my bike… An Exposure Race MaXx 2… it’s absolutely bonkers in terms of brightness, 480 lumens (which is a fancy way of saying “don’t look into the light, (…)
Global Warming…
by robert on October 30, 2009
I’ve just read this article on the register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/30/climate_fools_day/ I get a hard time whenever I make statements like “the earth really doesn’t care about the 500 years it takes for a plastic bag to rot away” or “why does (…)
At fucking last!
by robert on October 3, 2009
Snow Leopard introduced a set of features, one of which meant that plugins for Safari stopped working… this would be fine, I’m really not bothered about plugins for the browser because it works just fine for me… however, for some (…)
Manchester 100…
by robert on September 9, 2009
I completed the Manchester 100 bike ride this weekend, did the 100 mile route in 5 hours 36 minutes and some seconds ride time and the time from start to finish was 5 hours 57 minutes… I’m rather pleased with (…)
Mind control…
by robert on July 26, 2009
Today I cycled 129,697,033 millimetres… that’s 80.58 miles (or 129km ;) and I found it pretty tough… I’ve never done that distance before (63 or so miles was my previous longest ride) and not stopping except for red lights was (…)
fackin’ apple have done it again!
by robert on June 17, 2009
this time last year with shiny new iPhone in my sweaty paws I was unable to activate it… this year the iPhone is rather less shiny and my paws somewhat less sweaty as a result but like many iPhone users (…)
1000 miles, two Macs & music that messed up my head
by robert on May 19, 2009
i’ve just clocked up 1000 miles on my road bike, needs new tyres and i recently got a slightly shorter stem because my elbows were aching when i was riding – a 1cm shorter stem has completely solved the problem! (…)