Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Phew, that’s Volume 2 (July – December) of our 2010 weblog book ready for print as well. After hundreds of hours of work laying it all out in a desktop publishing application, importing photos proof-reading and proof-reading again, creating a DVD of video clips to accompany it and then exporting each volume as a pdf...
I’m really keen to take some photos through our new telescope. I knew this wouldn’t be easy. The world of astro-photography is complex with many diverse techniques that need to be learnt, practised and perfected. Some of the photos you can achieve are truly outstanding, but I think it will be many years before we...
I think it may be our fault. Since Christmas there seems to have been nothing but mist, murk and miserable weather. We’re used to that here in Wales but it has been pretty bad. We’ve barely been able to se Aberdovey across the river, let alone out to the hills and we’ve had no chance...
Death of a PC Unfortunately, while we were away a few weeks ago the PC that runs the Borth & Ynyslas Weather Station died. It had been on its last legs for a few months anyway and had been constantly crashing, seemingly unable to cope with the demands of running 24/7, 365 days a year. It...
I’ve been using Carbonite as an online backup solution for a couple of years now and wrote a review of Carbonite back in 2009. All has been working well with it, to the extent that I had virtually forgotten about it. Whenever my computer is switched on and connected to the internet, it just automatically...
We’ve been treated to another great view of Jupiter and its moons tonight so I tried to get a better photo. This time I used the live view feature on my SLR to get better focus. It still isn’t easy, although I did only spend a few minutes doing it, but the results are better...
I guess to some people that title will mean absolutely nothing. So for them here’s an explanation of each term. Blurb Blurb is a company that allows you to publish and print books. We’ve been using it for a while now to print our weblog (the one that you are currently reading) and the results...
I’ve just written a post containing a long term review of the iPad now that we’ve lived with it for almost a year, so I thought I’d also write some thoughts on the recent upgrade to iOS5. iOS5 has some fundamental changes over the previous operating system and it did promise to address some of the...
Well, it’s been getting on for a year since I’ve had my iPad, so, was it a flash in the pan that kept me amused last Christmas or has it become an essential part of my life? And, has the recent release of iOS5 made any difference? Intimate and Sociable Well, the first question is...
<A HREF=”http://ws.amazon.co.uk/widgets/q?rt=tf_cw&ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=GB&ID=V20070822%2FGB%2Falslikklworls%2F8010%2F8ebd5228-42fe-40a9-a43c-847af574634c&Operation=NoScript”>Amazon.co.uk Widgets</A> I was looking at getting a new training gadget in the form of a swimming watch. There are a couple that I’ve been looking at such as the Swimovate PoolMate PRO Computer Sports Watch and the Finis Adult Swimsense. Something to add to my birthday and Christmas wish list maybe? Both contain...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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