I set myself the goal of riding 5200 ㎞ in 2012, that’s 100 ㎞ 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 ㎞ at 17.80 ㎞/h A distance of 2607.73 ㎞ remains.
I set myself the goal of riding 5200 ㎞ in 2012, that’s 100 ㎞ 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 ㎞ at 17.80 ㎞/h A distance of 2946.27 ㎞ remains.
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:
I set myself the goal of riding 5200 ㎞ in 2012, that’s 100 ㎞ 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 ㎞ at 17.57 ㎞/h A distance of 3416.80 ㎞ remains.
I set myself the goal of riding 5200 ㎞ in 2012, that’s 100 ㎞ 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 ㎞ at 17.72 ㎞/h A distance of 3728.94 ㎞ remains.
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
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for March 2012:
Progress: 21%
1116.62 ㎞ at 17.38 ㎞/h A distance of 4083.38 ㎞ remains. At current average speed, 235.0 hours of ride time required. An average daily distance of 14.96 ㎞ required. You should have completed a distance of 1314.29 ㎞ by today. From Garmin for the month:
Mar 2012 Count 28 Activities Distance 380.54 ㎞ Time 21:23:52 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,097 m Avg Speed 17.
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 ㎞ at 17.43 ㎞/h
A distance of 4366.70 ㎞ remains. At current average speed, 250.5 hours of ride time required.
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.
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
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for January 2012:
Progress: 8%
407.41 ㎞ at 16.81 ㎞/h A distance of 4792.59 ㎞ remains. At current average speed, 285.0 hours of ride time required. An average daily distance of 14.26 ㎞ required. You should have completed a distance of 414.29 ㎞ by today. Jan 2012 Count 19 Activities Distance 407.41 ㎞ Time 24:13:44 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,171 m Avg Speed 16.
Oh well, I didn’t quite make it to my annual goal of 5000 ㎞! 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 5000 ㎞:
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 ㎞ 4,618.14 ㎞ Time 25:17:13 h:m:s 262:58:34 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,866 m 48,845 m Avg Speed 18.
My ride report for November 2011:
My 5000 ㎞ for the year is looking a little hard to reach at the moment. I’m still about 250 ㎞ behind where I should be. As one of the stats analysers says – so far I’ve done 4294.27 ㎞:
A distance of 705.73 ㎞ remains. At current average speed, 39.8 hours of ride time required. An average daily distance of 26.14 ㎞ required. I should have completed a distance of 4643.
My ride report for October 2011:
My 5000 ㎞ 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 3848.03 ㎞ at 17.67 ㎞/h :
A distance of 1151.97 ㎞ remains. At current average speed, 65.2 hours of ride time required. An average daily distance of 19.20 ㎞ required. I should have completed a distance of 4191.
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.
My ride report for September 2011:
According to www.mycyclinglog.com Period Time Distance (㎞) Avg Speed (㎞/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 ㎞ 3,393.85 ㎞ Time 23:00:15 h:m:s 194:53:21 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,925 m 36,164 m Avg Speed 17.
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.
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.
My ride report for August 2011:
According to www.mycyclinglog.com Period Time Distance (㎞) Avg Speed (㎞/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 ㎞ 2,995.58 ㎞ Time 17:06:31 h:m:s 171:53:06 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,412 m 31,239 m Avg Speed 16.
My ride report for July 2011:
According to www.mycyclinglog.com Period Time Distance (㎞) Avg Speed (㎞/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 ㎞ 2,712.36 ㎞ Time 17:58:42 h:m:s 154:46:34 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,097 m 27,827 m Avg Speed 16.
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.
My ride report for June 2011:
According to www.mycyclinglog.com Period Time Distance (㎞) Avg Speed (㎞/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 ㎞ 2,414.01 ㎞ Time 22:34:08 h:m:s 136:47:52 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,099 m 23,730 m Avg Speed 16.
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.
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 (㎞) Avg Speed (㎞/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 ㎞ 2,031.98 ㎞ Time 20:12:39 h:m:s 114:13:43 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,603 m 19,631 m Avg Speed 17.
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.
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 ㎞ 1,687.10 ㎞ 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 ㎞/h 17.9 ㎞/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 5000 ㎞ target for the year this time!
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.
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.
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for March 20111:
March 2011 Count 25 Activities Distance 496.75 ㎞ Time 26:50:58 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,936 m Avg Speed 18.5 ㎞/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 ㎞ Time 68:28:21 h:m:s Elevation Gain 11,663 m Avg Speed 18.2 ㎞/h Avg HR 133 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 50,921 C I might even make my 5000 ㎞ target for the year this time!
According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for February 2011:
February 2011 Count 21 Activities Distance 302.94 ㎞ Time 18:10:31 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,875 m Avg Speed 16.7 ㎞/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 ㎞ Time 41:37:22 h:m:s Elevation Gain 6,727 m Avg Speed 17.9 ㎞/h Avg HR 133 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 30,019 C Just managed to top 300 ㎞ for the month, not bad when most of it is just shuttling back and forth the 7 ㎞ to work.
According to my GPS1, here’s my ride report for January 2011:
January 2011 Count 23 Activities Distance 443.85 ㎞ Time 23:26:51 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,851 m Avg Speed 18.9 ㎞/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 ㎞, 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 ㎞ Time 24:06:55 h:m:s Elevation Gain 4,423 m Avg Speed 16.7 ㎞/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 ㎞ 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 ㎞ Time 20:18:22 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,851 m Avg Speed 18.9 ㎞/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 ㎞ Time 175:07:03 h:m:s Elevation Gain 32,169 m Avg Speed 17.8 ㎞/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 5000 ㎞, 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.
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.
