According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for January 2011:
January 2011 Count 23 Activities Distance 443.85 km Time 23:26:51 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,851 m Avg Speed 18.9 km/h Avg HR 133 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 16,589 C The grand total so far for 2011 is:
…exactly the same as the monthly total.
I didn’t quite get to 500 km, although my log on http://mycyclinglog.
Or why websites should not use an email address as an identity.
I guess it started somewhere in the middle of last year, our email system at work was migrated to Google mail and we all had our email addresses changed from Firstname.Lastname@faculty.monash.edu.au to Firstname.Lastname@monash.edu due to Google mail’s inability to have hierarchical addresses — or so we were told.
Anything addressed to the old location is redirected to the new, but we’ve been asked to make sure all our mailing list subscriptions etc are changed to use the preferred form.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for December 2010:
December 2010 Count 23 Activities Distance 401.85 km Time 24:06:55 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,423 m Avg Speed 16.7 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 14,228 C The — not so — grand total for 2010 is:
2010 Count 259 Activities Distance 3,524.20 km Time 199:13:58 h:m:s Elevation Gain 36,592 m Avg Speed 17.
Today we had announced that we were going to go to the zoo, Cam immediately seized on this and for reasons known only to the two and a half year old brain announced that we were going to the zoo to see horses and bees. No amount of questioning or suggestion could shake this confidant prediction.
It was with a sense of relief that as we were walking up the road to Healesville Sanctuary that a couple walked past the other way leading their ponies, confirming in Cam’s mind that indeed we were going to see horses!
Cat Herding, out of bed at 7:00 to be breakfasted, organised, packed with tandem and trailer and out the door for the 09:13 train. Sounds simply in theory and I guess it was in practice, even if we did end up walking across to the station with the trailer only half packed and the rest of the gear just stowed on the seat where Cam would sit.
Oakleigh to Richmond, Cam delighting in the names of all the stations as they came over the PA system, then off the train and across to the next platform to wait for the Lilydale train on platform 10.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for November:
November 2010 Count 22 Activities Distance 384.44 km Time 20:18:22 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,851 m Avg Speed 18.9 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 14,441 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 236 Activities Distance 3,122.35 km Time 175:07:03 h:m:s Elevation Gain 32,169 m Avg Speed 17.8 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 114,874 C I’m getting further and further behind my goal for 2010 of 5000km, but not yet so far behind that the goal is unobtainable.
Bah, Friday, who needs it.
Family circumstances altered, toddler sleep requires a no show at Goat. Normal commute home, hopefully avoiding the wind and rain.
First ride home on the new road bike. First ride on a road bike for about a year. First ride in Shimano road cleats for about five years. East Oakleigh: approaching little roundabout down a gentle hill, there’s a Falcon coming down the street from my right but he’s way back and I’ll be across the roundabout before he’s even got there.
Today I received a real honest-to-goodness paper letter, a letter in an envelope, a letter posted from faraway France. “How odd,” I thought, who would write to me from France?
Aha, it would be “ESQ. Philip ROSSLARE” of “ROSSLARE CHAMBERS LLP,” or so I discovered as I opened the letter and saw the opening lines:
Dear Tritschler
Firstly I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for October:
October 2010 Count 9 Activities Distance 126.83 km Time 07:26:59 h:m:s Elevation Gain 1,522 m Avg Speed 17.0 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 4,467 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 214 Activities Distance 2,737.91 km Time 154:48:40 h:m:s Elevation Gain 28,318 m Avg Speed 17.7 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 100,433 C I’m getting further and further behind my goal for 2010 of 5000km, but not yet so far behind that the goal is unobtainable.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for September:
September 2010 Count 21 Activities Distance 300.45 km Time 17:12:01 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,332 m Avg Speed 17.5 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 10,315 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 205 Activities Distance 2,611.08 km Time 147:21:41 h:m:s Elevation Gain 26,796 m Avg Speed 17.7 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 95,966 C I’m getting further and further behind my goal for 2010 of 5000km, but not yet so far behind that the goal is unobtainable.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for August:
August 2010 Count 18 Activities Distance 254.74 km Time 15:01:50 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,840 m Avg Speed 16.9 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 9,646 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 184 Activities Distance 2,310.63 km Time 130:09:40 h:m:s Elevation Gain 23,465 m Avg Speed 17.8 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 85,652 C Footnotes 1 As usual, two or three times I forgot to restart it for the ride home from work.
Once more the little paper shows their small minds to the world. Flipping through my RSS feeds I come across a fairly definitive headline and short description of a story:
Bomb attempt diverts US flight from Herald Sun | World News
AN American Airlines flight from New York to LA has been diverted after a passenger reportedly tried to detonate a bomb mid-flight.
Clicking on the link takes you to the far more prosaic story:
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for July:
July 2010 Count 22 Activities Distance 321.14 km Time 17:35:18 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,765 m Avg Speed 18.3 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 11,906 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 166 Activities Distance 2,055.89 km Time 115:07:49 h:m:s Elevation Gain 20,625 m Avg Speed 17.9 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 76,006 C Footnotes 1 As usual, two or three times I forgot to restart it for the ride home from work.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for June:
June 2010 Count 19 Activities Distance 212.31 km Time 13:14:24 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,085 m Avg Speed 16.0 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 8,581 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 144 Activities Distance 1,734.75 km Time 97:32:31 h:m:s Elevation Gain 16,859 m Avg Speed 17.8 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 64,100 C Footnotes 1 As usual, two or three times I forgot to restart it for the ride home from work.
For the last three days we’ve had mystery phone calls shortly after 6 pm, each day they hang up after I answer the phone — a sure sign of a call-centre, the auto-dialler has dialled, you’ve answered, but all of their operators are busy and nobody is free to piss you off. Until today…
All heavily accented, echo-ey and garbled, sounding typically like the Indian call-centres. Around 6.10 pm this evening:
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for May:
May 2010 Count 21 Activities Distance 243.01 km Time 14:24:51 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,334 m Avg Speed 16.9 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 8,908 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 125 Activities Distance 1,522.44 km Time 84:18:07 h:m:s Elevation Gain 14,774 m Avg Speed 18.1 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 55,519 Ca Footnotes 1 Two or three times I forgot to restart it for the ride home from work, and the buttons failed so it wasn’t usable for a day.
Ah Senator Alston, how do we love thee? Performing some much needed file cleanup I found a mystery script, all one line of it, pulling a couple of random words from a text file of so-called naughty words. Trivial, funny in a sad way. Must have written it long ago based on one of the myriad proposed lists of naughty words… especially since the hornorable mini-stir was Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts 1998-2003.
After spending a fascinating afternoon with IPv6 and Novell OES2 and a myriad of manuals, technical notes and endless searches through forums I thought it time to try and separate the reality from the promise and write up what I found out about IPv6.
Starting with two IPv6-enabled workstations; one running Ubuntu linux (32bit, 10.04) and the other Windows XPsp3 with the Microsoft IPv6 protocol enabled, how far can I get?
My current backup regime is to use rdup to maintain daily archives on two external USB drives; one attached directly to fafnir at home, one attached to my PC at work. Once I got it all setup, cron takes care of the details and I only have to intervene when things go wrong.
Problems come up if I add large amounts of data at once, if rdup is updated and its data-file format changes — necessitating a complete backup rather than an incremental — bandwidth is never enough and it irks me to have to upload data that I know already exists at the other end.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for April:
April 2010 Count 22 Activities Distance 292.83 km Time 15:19:33 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,964 m Avg Speed 19.1 km/h Avg HR 142 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 11,087 C The total so far for 2010 is:
2010 Count 104 Activities Distance 1279.42 km Time 69:53:15 h:m:s Elevation Gain 12,441 m Avg Speed 18.3 km/h Avg HR 144 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 46,611 C Footnotes 1 Two or three times I forgot to restart it for the ride home from work, and the buttons failed so it wasn’t usable for a day.
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.
