24. January 2012 · Comments Off · Categories: Twitter · Tags: ,

That’ll stop me from cycling, driving, decorating and keep me off MW3. Triple fracture of my right middle finger. #Painful

16. January 2012 · Comments Off · Categories: Twitter · Tags:

E3-D AWACS pilots just do it in circles. Cold winter mornings plane spotting from the train. http://t.co/0N9Fkzkc

08. January 2012 · Comments Off · Categories: Motoring, Touring

Abbeville Circuit Well the New Year diet is going well and medicals are all checked – so it’s time to make the first confirmation of the year.   Although it won’t be the first circuit of the year,  it’s a new one for me.  Teamed up to Lotus-On-Track and reserved for NYLOC members – Abbeville in Northern France has been confirmed for the 4th June 2012.

 

08. January 2012 · Comments Off · Categories: Just a blog entry · Tags:

Finished Mountain Bike with @cyclemeter, on a new route, time 1:13:20, 14.53 miles, see http://t.co/9uLURayN, average 11.89.

31. December 2011 · Comments Off · Categories: Just a blog entry · Tags:

Happy New Year to one & and all.

31. December 2011 · Comments Off · Categories: Just a blog entry · Tags:

New Years Party at the Ruslings – always good for amateur electrics http://t.co/ixsHT2dJ

25. December 2011 · Comments Off · Categories: Just a blog entry · Tags:

Tired out after first ‘real’ understanding of Christmas. Theo now fast asleep on @ShelleyPollard http://t.co/Or823cU3

22. December 2011 · Comments Off · Categories: Just a blog entry

Why doesn’t it feel Christmassy yet ? After all the drinks and parties (still one left at the time of writing), it still doesn’t just seem like Christmas. Maybe tonight after my last commute with the faintest audio of Chris Rea it maybe it it will start to feel like the festive season has begun.

Of course, once the holidays have started, I’ll finally get the chance to finish editing the November monthly video – just in time to start Decembers !

20. December 2011 · Comments Off · Categories: Just a blog entry

 

What can I say – another week till Christmas and just starting my fifth works Christmas drinks.

And there’s still one more to do on Thursday!

30. November 2011 · Comments Off · Categories: Just a blog entry

Well it might have been off for a couple of months, but I’ve managed to re-jig an new energy monitor for the house. It’s been back online for a couple of days now, but the actual reporting still isn’t fully automated.

Everything is being captured in real time, still to a RRD file. It’s still PERL based capture, but all the other associated tools have been re-written to be OSX oriented. The eeePC is finally dead, so the capture is now based on a Mac Mini running standard 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. The next problem was getting a proper copy of Xcode onto the box so that I could get C and ggc running. With Lion being the only supported standard for Xcode 4.x, I had to downgrade to version 3 – unless I fancied paying Apple $99 for a developers license.

Anyway – all done and now reporting. I just need to work out why one of launchd’s plists doesn’t want to run every 5 minutes.