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Yearly Archives: 2008
Too big to travel abroad…
The first indication I got that I was too big to travel abroad was when I stepped into the Boeing 777-300 cabin and immeadiately hit my head hard on the roof of the doorway. I guess hitting my head on things could be considered to be clumsy but to be honest I really don’t expect to encounter doorways, hanging light fittings and other assorted normally high items at the same level as my head. The place where I’m currently staying I narrowly miss hitting exit signs, smoke alarms and fire sprinkers with my head and earlier I collided with a ceiling in a corridor. The plane seats felt like a tight prison – dreading another passenger potentially sitting in front of me, trapping and pinning me by reclining the seat onto my legs. Luckily I had the seat beside me … Continue reading
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Singapore
Flying to singapore in a few hours, managed to check into the flight and secure a ‘leg room’ seat at 6am. Hopefully this seat near the galley has legroom as the check in map seemed to indicate. Could find very little info on the seating plan. Checked the weather over there: 32c and 95% humidity. And I thought it was sticky in Brisbane this week!
HP Mininote 1000 using the intel Atom 1.6
Hewlett Packard seems to have updated their HP Mini note to the new model HP Mini 1000. Whilst the HP Mininote seemed to get rave reviews for an excellent typing keyboard and build quality, concerns were raised over the performance of the VIA processor that was apparently inferior to the Atom. In the web advertisement that leapt up in front of me earlier it appears that this product has been revised with the new model using the Intel Atom 1.6 like it’s obvious competitor the MSI Wind. This new model also has the option of a 10″ screen in addition to the existing 8.9″ so with interest I was wondering if this machine would muscle out the MSI Wind with similar specs to match the formidable typing ability. Unfortunately I can see a chink in the armour of this new … Continue reading
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Blog this!
I saw a girl at the mountain bike races today who had a shirt with the slogan “Blog this!” so I am. I’ve been inundated by bizzare and annoying questions on ebay lately from people who don’t appear to read the item description. Item contains xyz. “Does the item contain x and/or z?” To add to my ebay woes I’ve had a rash of people who have bidded and then been slow or not paid for the item. Other bidders have sent me messages pleading “times are tough sell the item to me cheap because I don’t have any more money”… Sure if times are tough and I’m selling my items I need the money too. I’m not a charity, and selling them for $1000 under cost is hardly like I’m profiteering…
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Coffs Harbour Mountain Bike Marathon
On the 21st of September I completed the 60km Coffs Harbour Mountain Marathon. It was originally supposed to be a 50km race but apparently some of the lead riders made a wrong turn so they changed the course so everyone had to complete the same distance. I was lucky enough to have my dad at this event to give me encouragement before the finish line and to take my tired photo 5 hours into the race. Dad’s photos from the event can be found on the Two Wheel Promotions site.
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Panasonic DMC-LX3 review
Laurence Ripsher has an interesting review of the DMC-LX3 on his photo journal.
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I tried and failed, but will try again tomorrow.
Sunday morning I went on a group ride from Brisbane over Mount Cootha and around Gap Creek. I managed to get very sunburnt but had a great time. I felt sorry for a girl behind the group who fell off the singletrack whilst clipped into her pedals but she made a loud and dramatic high pitched “eeeeep” as she fell that I couldn’t help laughing. (She was fine)… After watching some friends practice a climb out of a creekbed (steep rise over a root) I waited for them to go home and had another two attempts on a dare from Bridget. The first of which was completely hopeless and the second attempt I tried to be clever using a different technique but lost momentum at the critical moment and fell heavily on my back across a large rocky ridge knocking … Continue reading
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iPhone camera glitch
I was taking a photo of a building in the Brisbane CBD today mostly because of the unsual name “John Mills Himself”, but I noticed as the photograph preview flipped up on the screen that it had glitched and the image had been rearranged like a puzzle. I’ve never seen a camera do this to a photo before, and I was suprised that it saved the photo like this. I took another photo of the building but I think the randomised one is more interesting.
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Pendle rack review
My previous car had a towball so I had the option of fitting my bike onto a towball mounted bike rack or folding down the rear seat and putting it into the car. Unfortunately my new car doesn’t have a towbar and whilst I can still fit one bike (and sometimes two) into the back with the rear seats down, a third really starts to push things. The other issue with putting a bike into the back of the car is that after an endurance race the bikes are typically wet and/or covered in mud. Enter the strap-on rack. My riding partner bought a strap on rack from a local bike store which strapped underneath the car, the top of the bootlid and to the sides. And the bikes rested on a plastic lug that sat on a pole fastened … Continue reading
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