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Cycling 2014

Cycling 2014

Tuesday, Apr 15, 2014

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A challenge to start the year, “ride every day” – I didn’t read about it until [2014-01-02 Thu] and thought I was immediately disqualified, but the person laying down the challenge said it started from [2014-01-04 Sat] so I took him up on it. Made it a whole 15 days before reality intervened in the form of a trip away to visit family. Sunday seems to be my day of rest, the rest is mostly made of my short commute and trips to the shops, with a few more interesting rides thrown in.
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Melbourne motorists going that extra mile to be dangerously unpredictable

Melbourne motorists going that extra mile to be dangerously unpredictable

Thursday, Nov 14, 2013

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Thursday, riding alone day, as distinct from Monday to Wednesday which are “riding with the five yr old” days. Thursday’s traffic is more hazardous, but at least it’s more predictable! Riding with a small child in Melbourne it is amazing how much more polite drivers seem to be, they pass safely, they tend to (not always, but tend to) stop at stop signs rather than shoot across our bows after “slowing down a bit… maybe… it’s only a pushbike.
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A walking and cycling bucket list

A walking and cycling bucket list

Thursday, Sep 12, 2013

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I have no idea where I got this from, I can remember copying it from an email, or maybe a forum entry, or someone’s blog. UK centric, with detours to Europe, seems I’ve been to one or two already, maybe I’ll visit a few more one day: Walks and cycle routes The National Trails [0/15] Cleveland Way, England Cotswold Way, England Glyndŵr’s Way, Wales Hadrian’s Wall Path, England North Downs Way, England Offa’s Dyke Path, Wales and England Peddar’s Way and Norfolk Coast Path, England Pembrokeshire Coast Path, Wales Pennine Bridleway, England Pennine Way, England and Scotland The Ridgeway, England South Downs Way, England South West Coast Path, England Thames Path, England Yorkshire Wolds Way, England Other walks and cycle routes [1/7] Camino di Santiago Coast to Coast walk Cumbria Way walk Kennet and Avon Canal cycle (photos) London to Paris cycle The London Loop The Capital Ring Places The UK World Heritage Sites, Location [3/25] Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine’s Abbey, and St Martin’s Church, Canterbury, Kent, England Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, Blaenavon, Wales Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England.
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Spam Spam Spam

Spam Spam Spam

Thursday, Aug 22, 2013

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The email system at work is hosted by Google, with all the usual spam filtering and folders. Up until the start of March 2013 I used to skim through the spam folder two or three times a week and check for false positives, of which they’d be one or two a month, rescue them and then I’d delete everything else. In late February and early March 2013 the amount of spam arriving every day and making it into the spam folder became ridiculous, it was impossible to process it so I’ve taken to ignoring it, but jotting down the number of items in the folder every day.
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First rides of a trailgator

First rides of a trailgator

Sunday, Feb 10, 2013

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Some fiddling about over Saturday as we assembled the trailgator and got his 16" bike attached successfully to my MTB. A bit of extra fun ensued as the ancient seat post bolt on my bike had seized good and proper, no amount of swearing cursing or straining would shift it, a little extra from the brute squad and a loud snap as the bolt sheared in half. A spare was located in the great box ‘o bits in the shed.
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Ride report for December 2012, and 2012 and 2013 totals

Ride report for December 2012, and 2012 and 2013 totals

Thursday, Jan 3, 2013

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2012 cycling wrap up Increased both the target distance and the percentage completed in the last year; up from 5000km to 5200km, and completed 97%, up from 94%. Still plenty of room for improvement though. It would have been worse but I forced myself out for three last gasp rides, one on [2012-12-30 Sun] and then two on [2012-12-31 Mon]. According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for December 2012 and for all of 2012:
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Ride report for November 2012

Ride report for November 2012

Saturday, Dec 1, 2012

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I set myself the goal of riding 5200km in 2012, that’s 100km a week for anyone who thinks it an unusual number. Most of my rides are recorded on my Garmin Edge 705, apart from when I either forget to turn it on or the firmware has wedged itself and I cannot turn it on. Getting closer to the end, getting closer to the goal, I haven’t yet started working out how likely it’ll be.
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Ride report for October 2012

Ride report for October 2012

Thursday, Nov 1, 2012

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I set myself the goal of riding 5200km in 2012, that’s 100km a week for anyone who thinks it an unusual number. Most of my rides are recorded on my Garmin Edge 705, apart from when I either forget to turn it on or the firmware has wedged itself and I cannot turn it on. Catastrophically, I dropped the Edge 705 while leaving work on [2012-10-05 Fri] and despite pulling over as quickly as possible, I got to watch as the first three drivers in a row managed to line their wheels up perfectly to run over it, destroying the screen.
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Ride report for September 2012

Ride report for September 2012

Monday, Oct 1, 2012

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I set myself the goal of riding 5200km in 2012, that’s 100km a week for anyone who thinks it an unusual number. Most of my rides are recorded on my Garmin Edge 705, although sometimes I forget to turn it on, or the firmware has wedged itself and I cannot turn it on, or more rarely, can’t find it and ride to work without it. Tracked on http://mycyclinglog.com Progress: 66%
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Ride report for August 2012

Ride report for August 2012

Monday, Sep 3, 2012

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I set myself the goal of riding 5200km in 2012, that’s 100km a week for anyone who thinks it an unusual number. Most of my rides are recorded on my Garmin Edge 705, although sometimes I forget to turn it on, or more rarely, can’t find it and ride to work without it. I also had the problem this month that the Edge became gradually more unreliable at turning on and finally got into a state where I couldn’t turn it on either through the buttons or by plugging it into the USB cable – some digging around found a way of connecting to USB while pushing the joystick up – then I erased all the history.
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Ride report for July 2012

Ride report for July 2012

Wednesday, Aug 1, 2012

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I set myself the goal of riding 5200km in 2012, that’s 100km a week for anyone who thinks it an unusual number. Most of my rides are recorded on my Garmin Edge 705, although sometimes I forget to turn it on, or more rarely, can’t find it and ride to work without it. Tracked on http://mycyclinglog.com Progress: 50% 2592.27 km at 17.80 km/h A distance of 2607.73 km remains. At current average speed, 146.
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Ride report for June 2012

Ride report for June 2012

Monday, Jul 2, 2012

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I set myself the goal of riding 5200km in 2012, that’s 100km a week for anyone who thinks it an unusual number. Most of my rides are recorded on my Garmin Edge 705, although sometimes I forget to turn it on, or more rarely, can’t find it and ride to work without it. Tracked on http://mycyclinglog.com Progress: 43% 2253.73 km at 17.80 km/h A distance of 2946.27 km remains. At current average speed, 165.
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A static webfinger

A static webfinger

Sunday, Jun 3, 2012

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Some background reading on WebFinger starting at http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/wiki/WebFingerProtocol and then moving on to a few references such as http://hueniverse.com/2009/09/implementing-webfinger/ and I decided to knock up a quick and dirty static version. An apache redirect RewriteRule ^.well-known/host-meta lib/host-meta.xml so that the “well known” location points to a file in here <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <XRD xmlns='http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/xri/xrd-1.0' xmlns:hm='http://host-meta.net/xrd/1.0'> <!-- Resource-specific Information --> <hm:Host>ajft.org</hm:Host>hm:Host> <Link rel='lrdd' type='application/xrd+xml' template='http://ajft.org/webfinger/{uri}' /> </XRD> Then a second rewrite rule and a MIME type declaration:
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Ride report for May 2012

Ride report for May 2012

Friday, Jun 1, 2012

@ Adrian Tritschler

I set myself the goal of riding 5200km in 2012, that’s 100km a week for anyone who thinks it an unusual number. Most of my rides are recorded on my Garmin Edge 705, although sometimes I forget to turn it on, or more rarely, can’t find it and ride to work without it. Tracked on http://mycyclinglog.com Progress: 34% 1783.20 km at 17.57 km/h A distance of 3416.80 km remains. At current average speed, 194.
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Ride report for April 2012

Ride report for April 2012

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

@ Adrian Tritschler

I set myself the goal of riding 5200km in 2012, that’s 100km a week for anyone who thinks it an unusual number. Most of my rides are recorded on my Garmin Edge 705, although sometimes I forget to turn it on, or more rarely, can’t find it and ride to work without it. Tracked on http://mycyclinglog.com Progress: 28% 1471.06 km at 17.72 km/h A distance of 3728.94 km remains. At current average speed, 210.
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Creating Redirects with Jekyll

Creating Redirects with Jekyll

Friday, Apr 20, 2012

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On the to-do list for a little while has been to read through http://www.marran.com/tech/creating-redirects-with-jekyll/ and implement it here, then once its all working, go back and tidy up some of the ugly messes that have accumulated over the years. You should end up here if you try and access http://ajft.org/redirect-test. See Also /2017/07/31/org-hugo
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Ride report for March 2012

Ride report for March 2012

Tuesday, Apr 3, 2012

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According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for March 2012: Progress: 21% 1116.62 km at 17.38 km/h A distance of 4083.38 km remains. At current average speed, 235.0 hours of ride time required. An average daily distance of 14.96 km required. You should have completed a distance of 1314.29 km by today. From Garmin for the month: Mar 2012 Count 28 Activities Distance 380.54 km Time 21:23:52 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,097 m Avg Speed 17.
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Ride report for February 2012

Ride report for February 2012

Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012

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Just in case you – or I – are wondering, I had almost a month’s worth of fun with my ISP and didn’t get my riding logs sorted out until halfway through March, so that’s why this page is late. According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for February 2012: Progress: 16% – 833.30 km at 17.43 km/h A distance of 4366.70 km remains. At current average speed, 250.5 hours of ride time required.
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Simply move phone and broadband services to the new house….

Simply move phone and broadband services to the new house….

Friday, Feb 10, 2012

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There it was sitting in the to-do list, “relocate phone” and “relocate ADSL.” Two remarkably simple items in the list, it shouldn’t be a problem I thought … stupidly … since apparently anything to do with phones or broadband anywhere in the world is always a problem, and Australia is no exception. The phone service is with Telstra, the broadband with Internode. Getting the phone relocated shouldn’t be so hard so I thought I’d try the ADSL first.
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Adrian Tritschler

Just joined

Found out about iNaturalist yesterday while searching around for info. on flickr about machine tags and metadata. I’ve been interested in wildlife, birds and insects since I was a kid. Joined up and posted some of my old flickr photos that count as “observations,” I’m especially looking forward to identifying some of the unknowns in my photo.s https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/ajft/243-just-joined

Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012

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Ride report for January 2012

Ride report for January 2012

Wednesday, Feb 1, 2012

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According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for January 2012: Progress: 8% 407.41 km at 16.81 km/h A distance of 4792.59 km remains. At current average speed, 285.0 hours of ride time required. An average daily distance of 14.26 km required. You should have completed a distance of 414.29 km by today. Jan 2012 Count 19 Activities Distance 407.41 km Time 24:13:44 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,171 m Avg Speed 16.
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Ride report for December 2011 and for 2011 in total

Ride report for December 2011 and for 2011 in total

Wednesday, Jan 4, 2012

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Oh well, I didn’t quite make it to my annual goal of 5000km! 94% is good enough for a Distinction academically, but doesn’t cut it when aiming for a riding goal for the year, even a lowly 5000km: According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for December 2011 and for all of 2011: Count 22 Activities 269 Activities Distance 466.26 km 4,618.14 km Time 25:17:13 h:m:s 262:58:34 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,866 m 48,845 m Avg Speed 18.
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Ride report for November 2011

Ride report for November 2011

Friday, Dec 2, 2011

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My ride report for November 2011: My 5000km for the year is looking a little hard to reach at the moment. I’m still about 250km behind where I should be. As one of the stats analysers says – so far I’ve done 4294.27 km: A distance of 705.73 km remains. At current average speed, 39.8 hours of ride time required. An average daily distance of 26.14 km required. I should have completed a distance of 4643.
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Ride report for October 2011

Ride report for October 2011

Wednesday, Nov 2, 2011

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My ride report for October 2011: My 5000km for the year is looking a little hard to reach at the moment. As one of the stats analysers says – so far I’ve done 3848.03km at 17.67km/h : A distance of 1151.97 km remains. At current average speed, 65.2 hours of ride time required. An average daily distance of 19.20 km required. I should have completed a distance of 4191.78 km by today.
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Google maps

Google maps

Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011

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A topic dear to my heart, via http://norman.walsh.name//2011/10/18/gpxGoogle and a few quick hacks on the GPX from today’s lunchtime walk: <2017-11-15 Wed> Update – currently broken During migration from Org mode & jekyll to Org mode & hugo. <2018-09-16 Sun> Update – and fixed I finally got a round tuit and spent some time looking at embedding and escaping and have got the embedded javascript to pass from Org mode’s markdown export to hugo and display correctly.
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Ride report for September 2011

Ride report for September 2011

Sunday, Oct 2, 2011

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My ride report for September 2011: According to www.mycyclinglog.com Period Time Distance (km) Avg Speed (km/h) Ride Count September 20:32:36 405.72 17.69 24 According to Garmin Or here they are according to my GPS and http://connect.garmin.com for the month and for the year to date1: September 2011 2011 Count 24 Activities 198 Activities Distance 398.27 km 3,393.85 km Time 23:00:15 h:m:s 194:53:21 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,925 m 36,164 m Avg Speed 17.
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The farce is strong with this one…

The farce is strong with this one…

Monday, Sep 19, 2011

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Long, long ago I opened a bank account with a building society. Time passed and the building society combined with another building society, and then was bought by Advance Bank. In something resembling a biblical chain of banks begetting banks, Advance Bank became part of St George Bank and lo, it was good. Or as good as any bank ever seems to be when you’re on the customer end. Then the earth shook and the shares crumbled and so it passed that Westpac bought St George Bank, decreeing unto the customers who probably detested “the big four Australia banks1” that St George would continue as a separate entity.
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Those funny black and white stripes on the road

Those funny black and white stripes on the road

Sunday, Sep 11, 2011

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After a long day out yesterday we came home by train, getting out at the station Jo and Cam went one way to the house while I went to the shops to get some take-away noodles for dinner. A five minute wait and dinner is ready, then back down Station street and two pedestrian crossings to the station. Half way across the road and I leap backwards to the sound of squealing tyres and an acccelerating engine, as per usual one of the local drivers has decided to plant his foot going around the roundabout to race for the crossing to get there before the pedestrian.
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Ride report for August 2011

Ride report for August 2011

Thursday, Sep 1, 2011

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My ride report for August 2011: According to www.mycyclinglog.com Period Time Distance (km) Avg Speed (km/h) Ride Count August 04:59:52 289.32 16.73 19 According to Garmin Or here they are according to my GPS and http://connect.garmin.com for the month and for the year to date1: August 2011 2011 Count: 19 Activities 174 Activities Distance 283.22 km 2,995.58 km Time 17:06:31 h:m:s 171:53:06 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,412 m 31,239 m Avg Speed 16.
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Ride report for July 2011

Ride report for July 2011

Monday, Aug 1, 2011

@ Adrian Tritschler

My ride report for July 2011: According to www.mycyclinglog.com Period Time Distance (km) Avg Speed (km/h) Ride Count Month of July 17:58:33 305.37 16.99 20 According to Garmin Or here they are according to my GPS and http://connect.garmin.com for the month and for the year to date1: July 2011 2011 Count 20 Activities 155 Activities Distance 298.35 km 2,712.36 km Time 17:58:42 h:m:s 154:46:34 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,097 m 27,827 m Avg Speed 16.
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MySQL on OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana

MySQL on OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana

Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011

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Years ago I needed MySQL on my Ubuntu box, I wasn’t interested in MySQL, just in a package that needed it. I didn’t pay any attention to the database, just selected it in the package manager, answered a couple of questions and IT ALL JUST WORKED. Yesterday I started to go through the same process on my newly resuscitated OpenSolaris box, selected “mysql” in the package manager and selected “Install”. It downloaded, it said it was installing, the installer finished and I tried to go on with what I was interested in.
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Ride report for June 2011

Ride report for June 2011

Friday, Jul 1, 2011

@ Adrian Tritschler

My ride report for June 2011: According to www.mycyclinglog.com Period Time Distance (km) Avg Speed (km/h) Ride Count Month of June 21:58:31 389.10 17.07 24 According to Garmin Or here they are according to my GPS and http://connect.garmin.com for the month and for the year to date1: June 2011 2011 Count 24 Activities 135 Activities Distance 382.03 km 2,414.01 km Time 22:34:08 h:m:s 136:47:52 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,099 m 23,730 m Avg Speed 16.
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GPS Visualisation

GPS Visualisation

Thursday, Jun 16, 2011

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Something I’ve been looking for for ages, a good way of visualising the many GPX tracks I’ve saved over the years. Today I stumbled on Alexander Avtanski’s GPS Track Visualization and here’s the results of my logged lunchtime walks so far for 2011: GPS Visualisation - Lunchtime walks by ajft, on Flickr Minor annoyance so far, although it works fine for me on the GPX tracks I’ve generated on the iPhone in Endomondo and then downloaded from the endomondo website, it barfs on the GPX from generated by the Garmin Edge 305 or 705 and then downloaded from Garmin Connect.
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Ride report for May 2011

Ride report for May 2011

Thursday, Jun 2, 2011

@ Adrian Tritschler

My ride report for May 2011: As its always important to get a second opinion, here’s the numbers from http://www.mycyclinglog.com/profile/ajft: Period Time Distance (km) Avg Speed (km/h) Ride Count Month of May 19:39:33 350.58 17.12 23 Or here they are according to my GPS and http://connect.garmin.com for the month and for the year to date1: May 2011 2011 Count 23 Activities 111 Activities Distance 344.88 km 2,031.98 km Time 20:12:39 h:m:s 114:13:43 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,603 m 19,631 m Avg Speed 17.
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Memolane, embedded

Memolane, embedded

Thursday, May 19, 2011

@ Adrian Tritschler

Pretty visualisation of blog posts, twitter updates, etc. Update [2017-07-31 Mon]: while transferring to hugo I found that linkrot has claimed http://memolane.com and it is no more.
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Ride report for April 2011

Ride report for April 2011

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

@ Adrian Tritschler

According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for April 2011 and the year to date1: April 2011 2011 Count 19 Activities 88 Activities Distance 443.56 km 1,687.10 km Time 25:32:43 h:m:s 94:01:04 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,365 m 16,028 m Avg Speed 17.4 km/h 17.9 km/h Avg HR 137 bpm 136 bpm Avg Run Cadence – – Avg Bike Cadence – – Calories 16,079 C 67,000 C Definitely on track to make my 5000km target for the year this time!
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Oh my, an important tax refund notice...

Oh my, an important tax refund notice...

Tuesday, Apr 5, 2011

@ Adrian Tritschler

Bwahaha, there it is in my spam folder, an Important Tax Refund Notice!, and verbatim: Australia Revenue Service " Tax Refund " St. George Bank :-) $3,520.34 AUD Tax Refund Process From ACT @ April 2011. We received notification from Australia Revenue Service about the TAX refunds of $3,520.34 AUD. We advice you to DOWNLOAD on our Secure server Attachment sent along with this Message and enter all information as requested on the St.
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30 Days of Biking

30 Days of Biking

Friday, Apr 1, 2011

@ Adrian Tritschler

Wasting time as usual I spotted a reference to http://30daysofbiking.com/ and being a sucker for registering on yet-another site decided to give it a go … well five days a week is easy, that’s just commuting, the hard bit will be finding time, nay, making time, on the weekends and over the Easter break to go out for a ride.. Now how am I going to do this? Probably just twitter updates, and maybe a photo or two into the Flickr group.
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Ride report for March 2011

Ride report for March 2011

Friday, Apr 1, 2011

@ Adrian Tritschler

According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for March 20111: March 2011 Count 25 Activities Distance 496.75 km Time 26:50:58 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,936 m Avg Speed 18.5 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 20,903 C The grand total so far for 2011 is: 2011 Count 69 Activities Distance 1,243.54 km Time 68:28:21 h:m:s Elevation Gain 11,663 m Avg Speed 18.2 km/h Avg HR 133 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 50,921 C I might even make my 5000km target for the year this time!
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Ride report for February 2011

Ride report for February 2011

Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011

@ Adrian Tritschler

According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for February 2011: February 2011 Count 21 Activities Distance 302.94 km Time 18:10:31 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,875 m Avg Speed 16.7 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 13,429 C The grand total so far for 2011 is: 2011 Count 44 Activities Distance 746.78 km Time 41:37:22 h:m:s Elevation Gain 6,727 m Avg Speed 17.9 km/h Avg HR 133 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 30,019 C Just managed to top 300km for the month, not bad when most of it is just shuttling back and forth the 7km to work.
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About

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…The Owner

There’s not much more I can add to who I am.

…The Site

Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…

I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.

Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.

Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.

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