More Results
July 19th, 2009
Canada Day 5k results here:
http://www.events.runningroom.com/site/?raceId=4396&eventId=15086&vrindex=4
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The Season So Far.
July 9th, 2009
Well, I guess the summer running season has been here for a while, I could mention my progress.
So far the lesson seems to be that Triathlon training is better preparation for running than for Triathlon itself. I came 95th in the Muskoka sprint triathlon, 4th overall (and 1st in the men’s category) in the Barrie Rotary Club fun run, and 5th in the Canada Day 5k. Some of my results are here.
The girls competed in their first kids triathlon, and did great!
Should post some pictures too, I guess.
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More triathlon gear
April 22nd, 2009
Bought a pair of Zoot running flats and a pair of tri-shorts down at Running Free this afternoon. Haven’t had a chance to try them out yet, but the rain should stop by tomorrow. I’m quite pleased with where my run and swim have got to over the winter – still lots of work to do getting used to a time-trial bike, but that’s coming along too.Getting to the point in the season where I need to start working on speed as well as endurance, so I’ve been adding in 50m sprints at the pool, and shuttle runs down at the local park during my 5k runs.
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More thin-client goodness
April 22nd, 2009
I have an old laptop with a broken screen that’s not good for much, but with Ubuntu installed and stuffed in the back of a closet works fine as a server. With SSH now on my netbook I can work directly on the server, shifting the CPU-intensive heavy lifting away from a machine that relies on batteries. Once I’ve configured a tunnel through my firewall I’ll be able to work remotely on this server from anywhere.
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Installing SSH on Aspire One
April 21st, 2009
Learning more about my new toy. Here’s the command for installing ssh:
> sudo yum install openssh-clients
One step close to the ideal thin client!
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Entering the Cloud
April 20th, 2009
Now I’m using a netbook with only a few Gb of storage available, I expect I’ll start transitioning to using more web services where possible. What with google apps, wordpress, yahoo mail, facebook and so on, a lot of functionality has shifted from the desktop to the cloud.
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Aspire One
April 20th, 2009
Writing this on my new Aspire One that my beloved wife bought me today. It’s the 6-cell version, supposed to provide 7 hours of battery life. Have to see how that stacks up to reality. The Linux interface seems to work fine, especially once you learn how to get under the hood to the terminal – apparently the UI is a variant of Xfce. Had to poke around for a while to get the keyboard configured with a Dvorak layout, which in the end involved modifying xorg.conf.
Heather bought this for me partly to encourage me to write more, so watch out for an increased posting frequency.
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Igloo!
March 10th, 2008
What better way to spend a Sunday than building an igloo in the back yard! This really should be part of the citizenship test…
More pictures here.
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Living out of a Suitcase
November 24th, 2007
Living out of a suitcase can tire after a while. Right now I’m splitting my time between Cambridge and Woking, living out of a couple of cubic feet or so of luggage space. Definitely a lesson in living simply. A few changes of clothes, a notebook, a phone and an mp3 player seem to be my entire worldly possessions. I’ve never been much of a ‘thing’ person, so I’m coping with it, but it will certainly be nice to actually have a house again. Latest news on that front is that the builders won’t finish until the end of April, but I’m not making any assumptions until I actually have the keys in my hand.
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